Category: Colleagues
-
Munroe Elementary Featured in National Webinar about NxtGEN
NxtGEN was recently featured in a national webinar sponsored by Prepared to Teach, which focuses on scaling innovative, high quality residency-based teacher preparation. We are thrilled that our teacher education leaders and faculty along with school leaders, NxtGEN candidates, and NxtGEN alum from Munroe Elementary in DPS were featured to tell the powerful story about NxtGEN!…
-
Michael Kocet, AVC for Graduate Education and SEHD Counseling Faculty Member, Receives Outstanding Alumnus Award from University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas’s news unit recognized 2024 outstanding alumni in several categories. CU Denver Assistant Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education Michael Kocet was honored as this year’s outstanding alumnus from the Department of Counseling, Leadership, and Research Methods at Arkansas, where he earned his Ph.D. In addition to his administrative role here at CU Denver, Kocet…
-
Remi Kalir to Keynote OLC Innovate
Remi Kalir will be the Plenary Speaker at OLC Innovate 2024 this coming April13th at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center. His address, titled “Toward Dignity-Affirming Learning Futures,” will share a series of provocations rooted by educators’ moral obligation to help all learners and their communities thrive. OLC Innovate provides a path for innovators of all…
-
Ester de Jong Featured in New America Webinar
Feb. 22, 2024 | New America On a webinar hosted by this national education think tank, participants discussed a movement of laws and policies broadly referred in education policy circles to as “Science of Reading” legislation, influenced by the need for solutions to declining reading proficiency scores. On this webinar, CU Denver professor of cultural and…
-
Lisa Forbes Interviewed by NBC News
Feb. 2, 2024 | NBC News After surviving a pandemic, inflation and environmental crises, many adults, particularly Gen Zers and millennials, appear to be leaning into a nostalgic form of escapism: play. The desire for adult play goes beyond just toys, with the returned to activities, such as sports or crafts, that encourage this sense of fun. Lisa Forbes,…
-
New Publication Organized by ThinqStudio: “Success was Actually Having Learned:” University Student Perceptions of Ungrading
This article was an idea that was supported by, came out of and was organized by ThinqStudio. It is an article that comes from 6 faculty members across different schools. It highlights work from both Dennis DeBay and Joni Dunlap from the SEHD. Click here to access the article
-
SEHD Research Presentations at AACTE’s Annual Meeting
Next week, approximately 18 CU Denver School of Education & Human Development faculty, staff, students, and alums will present impressive research at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 2024 Annual Meeting at the Gaylord of the Rockies in Aurora. This meeting is designed to advance skills and knowledge to propel the education…
-
New Publication on Understanding Family Wellness
New publication alert, this article covers an important model for understanding family wellness. See the link and abstract below. Click here to access the article Abstract “Family stress models have been used extensively in family science for decades and have demonstrated utility in the examination of familial responses to stressors. Although these models have been…
-
Q&A: School Tech Integration Advocate Focuses On Mastery-Based Learning
Nearly 20 years after founding a graduate program to grow tech-savvy K–12 leaders, Scott McLeod says there is still a long way to go. As a professor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado Denver and an EdTech IT influencer, Scott McLeod spends his days preparing educators to join a rare breed of K–12 principals and superintendents.…
-
Elena Sandoval-Lucero’s Latest Publication is Co-authored with EdD Doctoral Candidate Rebecca Chavez and Published in Community College Review
Framing the Transfer Experience for Community College Students: Connection, Preparation, Support, Advocacy, and Resilience – Elena Sandoval-Lucero, Janell Lindsey, Libby Klingsmith, Rebecca Chavez, 2023 (sagepub.com)