Category: In the Media

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…

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 –…

From Disruption Comes Change: Nurturing Sociopolitical Action With Youth In this episode, we meet Dr. Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, an associate professor of counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. We discuss how to foster sociopolitical action with youth and talk about how to make purposeful use of social tension and take critical perspectives of our society…

As Times and Students Change, Can Faculty Change, Too? Some faculty don’t recognize how the demographics, and thus the needs, of students are changing. At issue is a gap between many professors’ own experience and that of their students. “You have professors, potentially, who make the assumption that your schooling is the same as my…