Category: Colleagues
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Franci Crepeau-Hobson featured in Education Week
Helping Students Grieve From a Distance Educators also need to be prepared for the fact that school closures may delay students’ ability to fully process a death in their school community. Denial is a normal reaction to death, said Franci Crepeau-Hobson, a professor of school psychology at the University of Colorado Denver and a specialist…
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Scott McLeod interviewed on Education Today Podcast
Education Today – What Works in Distance Learning and Classroom Podcasting In this episode, Dr. Rod Berger interviews Dr. Scott McLeod, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado-Denver, as well as Ben Kelly, the Department Head of Innovative Design in New Brunswick, Canada’s Anglophone East School District. Check out the podcast…
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Congratulations to Ebony Flowers (Wife of Remi Kalir) for her comic, The Diary Project: `Emotional Register’ published in The New York Times!
The Diary Project: ‘Emotional Register’ An assignment for all of us to help capture an extraordinary time. You can read the Diary Project in the New York Times.
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ThinqStudio Scholarships to Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020
ThinqStudio is CU Denver’s teaching and learning innovation incubator. We explore the future of learning and advocate for creative and critical pedagogies in every venue, including digital. One of our abiding principles is that we are all learners. In that spirit, ThinqStudio is funding 20 scholarships for CU Denver Lecturers (adjuncts) to the Digital Pedagogy…
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Sean Michael Morris interviewed on MSN
We’re embracing tech during lockdown – but can it replace the classroom? Amid the challenges of implementing technology into our home lives, families are having to embrace technology to keep things “normal”, and finding increasingly creative ways to stay organized and educated online along the way. “People who never expected – nor ever wanted –…
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ASPIRE to Teach program Candidate Featured in Local Newspaper
Matt DeJong is a business teacher at John Mall High School in Huerfano, Colo., and a candidate in the ASPIRE to Teach program.In this article from the Huerfano newspaper, Matt shares important insights on the COVID-19 virus’s impact on students and families. Matt is an excellent example of a career-changer who, like several ASPIRE candidates,…
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Counselors’ advice for college-bound students facing coronavirus uncertainty: Keep moving forward
“We’re doing lots of listening right now but still advising students to move forward so they have something to look forward to,” said Nathan Cadena, Denver Scholarship Foundation chief operating officer. The foundation provides resources and support for predominantly low-income and first-generation Denver students entering and attending college. Check out the full article on Chalkbeat.
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A Message from our Counseling Center Students
Some of the students made a video about coping during these times. Check it out here!
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Sean Michael Morris interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7, 2020
‘On a Desert Island With Your Students’: Professors Discuss the Weirdness of Teaching Remotely in a Pandemic Sean Morris, a senior instructor in learning, design, and technology in the University of Colorado at Denver’s School of Education & Human Development, and Stommel, a senior lecturer and digital-learning fellow at the University of Mary Washington, in…
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CU Denver Special Education MA/Endorsement Student Jen Cwik Featured on 7News
Due to the threat of COVID-19, fourth grade teacher Jen Cwik can’t be in the classroom with her students. However, she’s found a new way to connect with them personally and teach them one of life’s most valuable lessons. [Read the article here]