Category: In the Media

College Kids Are Heading Back To Campus Anxious, Depressed And Burnt Out Students are not coping well. According to a recent survey from Ohio State University’s Wellness Officer, college kids are relying more heavily on unhealthy means of coping. To remedy this, Ohio State has created a “Five to Thrive” wellness strategy for students. Meanwhile, another recent study conducted…

CU Denver will spearhead group to reform early childhood teacher preparation The University of Colorado Denver is launching a statewide effort to make it easier for new and existing early childhood teachers to earn college degrees. The university won a $2.3 million grant from a funders group called the Early Educator Investment Collaborative to bring together a coalition of…

How ‘Grow-Your-Own’ Programs Are Helping Recruit Teachers of Color Joselyne Garcia-Moreno always loved and excelled at math. But attending an all English-speaking high school could have squelched this passion for Garcia-Morena, who grew up in a Spanish-speaking household and spent most of her formative years attending school in Mexico. “I was really nervous. I could…

‘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…

University of Colorado Denver associate professor Heather Johnson, PhD, received a $1,599,774 grant from the National Science Foundation last week. Johnson is an associate professor in CU Denver’s School of Education & Human Development where she focuses her work on STEM education. The grant-winning project, Promoting Mathematical Reasoning and Transforming Instruction in College Algebra (ITsCRITiCAL), is a collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Santa Fe Community College, and…

NEVER WASTE A GOOD CRISIS In late March, I started interviewing school leaders around the globe about their school’s or school district’s responses to the coronavirus pandemic. I talked with dozens of different educational organizations across the United States and in countries as varied as China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. My goals were to hear…

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…