Category: Colleagues

DeAndre Taylor’s Ambitions for Equity-Focused Education DeAndre Taylor, a third-year student in CU Denver’s EdD program with a concentration in the Leadership for Education Organizations in higher education, works as interim associate director of educational initiatives within Residence Life at CU Boulder. He embraces diversity as a core strength in university settings. With approaches of care, patience, fortitude, listening…

New ‘Place-based’ Bachelor’s Program Aims To Invest Big In Colorado’s Early Childhood Workforce “The position of higher ed has been, ‘Here’s our nice bachelor’s degree, come and get it,’” said Rebecca Kantor, dean of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education and Human Development. That has not worked. The barriers are significant: access, cost…

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State awards SVVSD $2.8 million grant to collaborate on K-5 summer program The program will be staffed by certified teachers with reading intervention training and coaching. Helping with the programs will be a corps of high school student apprentices. The positions will be paid, and districts can choose to partner with the University of Colorado…

Looking For A New Generation Of Early Childhood Educators? High Schoolers Might Fit The Bill The St. Vrain Valley school district in Longmont developed the Pathways to Teaching program in the spring of 2018. School officials and early childhood educators knew there were huge shortages of both early education and K-12 educators. There was also a tremendous…

A Time To “Lead Courageously” Barbara Cooper MA ’95, PhD ’09 strongly believes that being an educator is a calling, not just a job. The dramatic events of 2020 have only confirmed her conviction. “You have to be called to do this work well because you really are impacting children who come from all walks…

Scott McLeod has been named a 2021 INNEDCO Ambassador and is the only individual working in higher ed in this group. Check out the full group here.

Using Emojis With Kids to Express Feelings Drawing on findings from her own research and 20 years as an online educator, Dr. Joanna Dunlap, a professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, says emojis are more applicable than ever during the pandemic. “I’ve talked with teachers at all grade…

Advocates want families to know: Colorado children don’t have to take in-person English proficiency tests A fact sheet from the state education department notes that, “Negative consequences on students or families will not be imposed if children do not participate in the ACCESS tests.” “The messaging is ambiguous,” said Soltero-Gonzalez, an assistant professor for the…