Category: In the Media

A Sobremesa in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month In Spanish, sobremesa is the time spent engaging with friends and family after a meal. Recently, CU Denver invited three students and a faculty member to join one another on the patio of Los Molinos at the Ninth Street Historic Park to eat and share their stories with one another. Watch…

Local media outlet 9News recently featured Wendy Gutierrez , an alum of the ASPIRE to Teach program and current SEHD master’s student. Gutierrez, a middle school social studies teacher at STRIVE Prep-Sunnyside, has revamped her curriculum to center LGBTQ themes in history. She started the project while she was in ASPIRE to Teach and focused on…

Education Innovation: “No Turning Back” Say Experts September 23 – “At this year’s OEB Global in Berlin, speakers from all over the world will share their experience. They are going to be showing how global education and training have been changed forever. They’ll be sharing new ways of learning and training, including setting out a…

The Place-Based BA Program: Meeting Early Educators Where They Are CU Denver’s place-based bachelor’s degree pilot is working to break down many of the key barriers that make it difficult for early educators to earn a degree. CU Denver is partnering with three local early care and education (ECE) programs—Clayton Early Learning, Sewall Child Development Center, and…

The pandemic and social justice protests over the last 18 months were clarion calls that principals desperately need Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), too. Not just to support students and teachers, but for their own well-being and survival. “Knowledge and training in SEL competencies will help principals become better leaders, improve relationships schoolwide, and create…

Clinical Assistant Professor Melody Brown, PhD, knows firsthand the importance of intersectionality. This makes her an asset to the School of Education & Human Development, where she teaches in the MA in couple and family therapy (CFT) program. Brown, a licensed marriage and family therapist, uses herself as an example to illustrate what intersectionality means. “I talk…

CU Denver Professor Powers Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Education Through AI Technology Geeta Verma and her new platform, LivedX, recently featured in Forbes Next 1000 List CU Denver STEM Education Professor Geeta Verma has been empowering women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields through her National Science Foundation grant and other research activities. Verma has…

Grant program overhaul, grow your own programs working to recruit teachers of color August 19 – Margarita Bianco, a CU Denver associate professor, discusses her new program, Pathways2Teaching, which focuses on ways to create a culturally diverse teacher workforce in school districts through education opportunities.

How a rural community college is addressing a teacher shortage About five years ago, leaders at Otero College, formerly known as Otero Junior College knew something needed to be done about a growing teacher shortage across the country. “We have districts who are having to hire educators quickly, they’re having to take online programs,” Rana…