Do you wish you knew more about social media? Would you like to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, blogs, and other digital platforms to increase your visibility and reach as an educator and scholar? Scott McLeod and Heather Johnson are facilitating a series of four social media workshops for SEHD faculty and […]
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Grants available for faculty through Center for Faculty Development
YUMPs (Young Upwardly Mobile Professors) grant funds are available through the Center for Faculty Development to support tenure-track faculty for activities that advance them toward tenure. Funded activities can include: attending professional conferences, hiring a research assistant, or buying books/software. Please remind your tenure-track faculty that these funds are available to them. Funding Limit: $500/year Eligibility: […]
Kristie Kauerz, EdD, joins school of education
The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) announced that early learning specialist Kristie Kauerz, EdD, is joining the faculty and will bring the National P-3 Center to Colorado. Kauerz, currently a research assistant professor at the University of Washington, specializes in bridging the worlds of early childhood education and K-12 education through education reform, […]
Back-to-school event for LGBTQ+ and Allies
On Thursday, August 16 from 4 – 6 p.m., a group of faculty, staff and allies from CU Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus will convene at the Fulginiti Pavillion for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Medical Campus to show solidarity with LGBTQ+ members of our community. This back-to-school event, Something Queer, is an […]
Video-Based Teaching Article via our own Science, Math and ILT Faculty
Johnson, H., Dunlap, J., Verma, G., McClintock, E., DeBay, D., & Bourdeaux, B. (2018). Video-Based Teaching Playgrounds: Designing Online Learning Opportunities to Foster Professional Noticing of Teaching Practices. Techtrends. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-018-0286-5 In this article, we share design guidelines for the development and use of online, video-based teaching playgrounds, which provide opportunities for prospective teachers to engage […]
This Friday: Designing for Deeper Learning with Connected Learning and Domain of One’s Own with Julia Kantor
Laptop | Lunch | Learn What does a classroom look, feel and sound like when robust, deep learning is happening? How do we design for such classrooms that, additionally, take into account principles of equity and justice? Are issues of student voice and agency taken into account when we design? In this workshop, we will […]
SEHD Special Education Student Received 2nd Place Award at RACAS
Lea Ziegler, a standout undergraduate special education major, won 2nd place in the Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences poster division at CU Denver’s Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RACAS) on Friday, April 27, 2018. Lea’s project, titled, “Inclusionary Practices in the Classroom,” explored the instructional methods that create an inclusive classroom environment, especially for culturally and linguistically diverse students […]
CLDE Graduate honored by Aurora Public School Board of Education
Congratulations to Jordan Crosby. She will be recognized at the May 1st Board of Education meeting by superintendent Rocco Munn and principal Jenny Passchier for preparing her students for a successful future through her work with preparing her language learners for success. She has done some amazing work through her Masters program and through her […]
ACUE Course in Effective Teaching Practice
The CU Denver Center for Faculty Development (CFD) is getting ready to roll out a fantastic Provost funded professional development opportunity for faculty. In 2018-2019 we will be offering the ACUE Course in Effective Teaching Practice, a 25 module, online course that prepares college educators to use the research-based techniques shown to help students succeed. […]
Colorado Rural Districts and Partners Win $1 Million William and Flora Hewlett Grant
The Student-Centered Accountability Program (S-CAP), its five founding districts (Buena Vista, Buffalo-Merino, Kit Carson, La Veta, and Monte Vista), and partners Battelle for Kids, Generation Schools Network, and the University of Colorado Denver Center for Practice Engaged Education Research are the recipients of a $1 million, three-year William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant. The grant […]