Category: Colleagues
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SEHD’s partnership with St. Vrain Featured in the Daily Camera
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…
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Rojas Carbajal, student in P-Teach, featured in Colorado Public Radio story
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…
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Barbara Cooper, SEHD PhD alum, featured in CU Denver News
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…
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Scott McLeod named 2021 INNEDCO Ambassador
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.
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Joni Dunlap Interviewed by PBS
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…
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Lucinda Soltero-Gonzalez and Tania Hogan interviewed by Chalkbeat Colorado
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…
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Rebecca Kantor and Diana Schaack interviewed by Colorado Public Radio
‘The Workforce Behind The Workforce’: Confronting Colorado’s Critical Child Care Staffing Shortage Early childhood teachers must meet the demands of children whose first language isn’t English, who may have trauma and those who come with a whole range of cognitive and emotional needs. Rebecca Kantor, dean of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education…
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Kristie Kauerz Authored Chapter in AERA’s New ECE Research Book
AERA has just published Advancing Knowledge and Building Capacity for Early Childhood Research, edited by Sharon Ryan, Beth Graue, and Vivian Gadsden. Kristie Kauerz has authored a chapter in this book titled: “Early Childhood Systems for Birth through Age 8: Conceptual Challenges and Research Needs.”
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Three SEHD Doctoral Students Selected as CDHE Policy Fellows
Congratulations to Amber McDonnell, Gabe Castano and Karen Jaramillo! They have been selected as Policy Fellows for 2021 by the Colorado Department of Higher Education. Amber and Gabe are members in the 2019 cohort of the EdD Higher Education concentration. Karen is a member of the 2020 cohort. This fellowship is a big deal. For…
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Essay from Sean Michael Morris featured in Fall Edition of CU Denver Research Magazine
Technology is Not Pedagogy We have not coded for the human in education, and so, unless we know how to seek it out past digital platforms, algorithms, and surveillance tools, the human is largely left out of online learning. Check out the full article on page 20 of the CU Denver Research Magazine