Category: Colleagues
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Rod Blunck, ALPS program, provides school governance training in Taiwan
Rod L. Blunck, associate professor in the School of Education & Human Development, recently spent time with the Board of Education of Kaohsiung American School in Kaohsiung, Taiwan working on governance structures for the local Board of Education and Superintendent. Kaohsiung American School educates approximately 1,200 K-12 students. This is Dr. Blunck’s second trip to…
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Employee of the Month Nominations
Have you nominated a peer for the Employee of the Month program yet? Staff council members will be voting for this month’s winner on January 15th so be sure to nominate persons you think have gone above and beyond! We will also be announcing the December 2017 winner in a few weeks so more info…
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Educational Studies in Mathematics
Wonder how students think about “increasing” or “decreasing” increases? Check out our new open access publication. Educational Studies in Mathematics is one of the most prestigious journals in mathematics education. [Check it out here!]
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Scott McLeod featured in SmartBrief Education
A call for education innovation The world is changing rapidly, and many school leaders are struggling to keep up, according to Scott McLeod, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado in Denver. McLeod, who has devoted considerable research and writing to areas of concern for educational leaders, including information literacy, workforce…
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To end child care deserts, it’s time to rethink care provided by family and friends, activists and experts say
Weighty regulations, high operating costs and rapidly changing neighborhoods are compounding child care shortages in many of Colorado’s low-income communities. Chalkbeat’s “Lessons From a Child Care Desert” event panel featured Liliana Flores Amaro, an Elyria-Swansea resident and community activist; Richard Garcia, former executive director of the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition; Rebecca Kantor, dean of the…
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Geeta Verma, SEHD faculty member, named co-editor of Journal of Science Teacher Education
Geeta Verma, PhD, has something to celebrate. The associate professor of science education, was named co-editor of the Journal of Science Teacher Education, the flagship journal of the Association for Science Teacher Education and the only English-language journal focused exclusively on science teacher education. [Read the full story on CU Denver Today]
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ASPIRE to Teach alumna takes the path less traveled
Three years ago, Lucia Cordovano landed a teaching job. Two years ago, she earned her alternative teaching license. This year, the CU Denver ASPIRE alumna received the Outstanding New Educator Award from the National Association for Alternative Certification (NAAC). [Read the full story on CU Denver Today]
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ITSCoRe project website
We have a project website up and running for our National Science Foundation funded project: Implementing Techtivities to Promote Students’ Covariational Reasoning in College Algebra (ITSCoRe); #1709903. PI: Heather Johnson; Co-PIs: Jeremiah Kalir, Gary Olson. Visit our website: https://itscore.cu.city/ In our most recent blog post, Heather Johnson talks about the dynamic computer activities (Techtivities) we…
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Can We Prepare Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teachers Online? A Cross-Case Analysis of Online and On-Campus Courses
Congrats to Liz Mahon on her latest publication in SAGE Journals. Check out the abstract below! Using a cross-case analysis of online, on-campus and online university teacher preparation courses, this study critically examines the constraints and affordances of online teacher education in preparing teachers for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) urban schools. The results of…
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Scott McLeod featured in Education Drive
As Scott McLeod, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado Denver and the founder of CASTLE, previously told Education Dive, the most important question administrators should consider when buying tech is how it will empower students to do amazing things that make a difference, noting, “I get a lot of puffery…