{"id":14945,"date":"2021-01-26T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=14945"},"modified":"2021-01-26T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:51:23","slug":"barbara-cooper-sehd-phd-alum-featured-in-cu-denver-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2021\/01\/26\/barbara-cooper-sehd-phd-alum-featured-in-cu-denver-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Cooper, SEHD PhD alum, featured in CU Denver News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Time To &#8220;Lead Courageously&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Barbara Cooper MA \u201995, PhD \u201909 strongly believes that being an educator is a calling, not just a job. The dramatic events of 2020 have only confirmed her conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be called to do this work well because you really are impacting children who come from all walks of life,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cAnd unless you have a passion and a servant attitude and a servant leadership style, it\u2019s going to be challenging to do this work, now more so than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper was appointed Secretary of Early Childhood Education by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey in July 2020. She earned both her PhD in education leadership and innovation and a master\u2019s degree in administration, supervision, and curriculum development (magna cum laude) at CU Denver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucdenver.edu\/a-time-to-lead-courageously\/\">via news.ucdenver.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Time To &#8220;Lead Courageously&#8221; Barbara Cooper MA \u201995, PhD \u201909 strongly believes that being an educator is a calling, not just a job. The dramatic events of 2020 have only confirmed her conviction. \u201cYou have to be called to do this work well because you really are impacting children who come from all walks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}