Category: In the Media
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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,…
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SEHD’s Graduate Online Education No. 1 in Colorado and Rocky Mountain Region According to U.S. News & World Report
“The 2024 U.S. News & World Report has again ranked online bachelor’s and graduate programs at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) among the best in the nation. CU Denver’s online graduate programs in education and criminal justice are long-standing leaders in their fields and consistently rank in this annual list. For the first time, the university’s cumulative…
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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.…
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SEHD’s Pathways2Teaching Program Featured in The Denver Post
Jan. 8, 2024 | Denver Post Homeless teens from Urban Peak youth shelter got a first look at their exhibit “Unheard Resilience” at MCA Denver, which runs through Feb. 18. Simmy Kifletsion, who moved to Denver from Strasburg in August, lives at the shelter at 2100 Stout St., where she and other teens are taking courses…
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Amber Vanzant, Recent LEO Principal Licensure Graduate, Featured in NASSP
Roundtable: Why Teachers Aspire to be Principals “While schools grapple with teacher shortages across the country, let’s remember to celebrate those educators who not only plan to stay in the profession but who also want to pursue careers in school leadership. To learn more about teachers who aspire to become principals, Principal Leadership contacted Drew…
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Lisa Forbes, clinical assistant professor in Counseling in SEHD, featured in Inside Higher Education
Dec. 13, 2023 | Inside Higher Ed CU Denver professor, Lisa Forbes, was fed up with expectations that professors should take a rigid approach to teaching. She co-founded Professors at Play with David Thomas, which connects faculty interested in playful pedagogy. Thomas is the executive director for online programs in the University of Denver’s Office of Graduate…
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Scott McLeod Featured in EdTech Magazine
Four percent of all public school teaching positions were vacant, and 26 percent of districts had multiple teaching vacancies, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. With teacher vacancies on the rise, schools are turning to remote teaching to incentivize teachers to work in districts that struggle to fill jobs with in-person candidates. “This idea that every…
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Michael Kocet, Ph.D., Interviewed for Forbes Article on Parental Loss
“The death of a parent can be a profoundly devastating loss. If the parent was a constant source of love and support, their death marks the end of a deeply important relationship. Others may have more complicated feelings surrounding a parent’s death, such as anger.” Click here to read the article on the Forbes website
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SEHD MA student, Camden Farmer, Publishes Opinion/Blog in Inside Higher Education Called Using Automation to Streamline Evaluation of Transfer Credits
“A university’s transfer credit evaluation process may be an afterthought—if it is thought of at all. Often, schools are at the mercy of the out-of-the-box workflow process that comes from whichever student information system they use. This might not be an issue for a school that sees few transfer students during the admissions cycle, but…
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Bea Romer, SEHD Educational Psychology Program Alum, Former Colorado First Lady and Lifelong ECE Advocate, has Died at Age 93
Romer co-founded what is now the Montview Community Preschool and Kindergarten in 1964. She also co-founded the Stanley British Primary School and Stanley Teacher Prep Program in Denver. She received an MA in Educational Psychology from our school. Click here to learn more on the Denver Post website