Category: In the Media

Taking action: LI school districts growing their own teachers The idea of growing your own teacher is decades old, though the number of similar programs in middle and high schools across the country is unclear, said Margarita Bianco, a University of Colorado Denver associate professor who co-authored a 2018 study that examined such programs. Read…

A post in the Chronicle of Higher Education by author James Lang discusses how “a new book on annotation offers inspiration for how to better use the technique in teaching.” Read the post titled, “Annotate This: How a Common Academic Practice Can Boost Learning“.

University of Colorado Denver’s new Open Educational Resource (OER) journal, Cases on Leadership for Equity and Justice in Higher Education (CLEJHE), is an academic, peer-review journal (Denver, Colorado) devoted to the rapid dissemination of case studies involving higher education leadership. It is run by an editorial board and peer review team of doctoral students, and a faculty oversight committee…

Remi Kalir and co-author Jenae Cohn have written an opinion piece for The Hechinger Report about socially responsible approaches to social reading: “How can social reading benefit student learning and reduce unintended surveillance? Socially responsible social reading will require intentional investments, partnerships and practices.” To read more and share the piece visit: https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-why-we-need-a-socially-responsible-approach-to-social-reading/

Hispanic legislators gather with urgency and purpose on education April 1, 2022 – Latino faculty and other faculty of color continue to be hired with contingent rather than full-time, tenure-track status. Dr. Margarita Bianco of the University of Colorado Denver School of Education challenged legislators to look at the pathways, including Grow Your Own programs,…