{"id":21056,"date":"2026-06-10T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=21056"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:40:20","slug":"ph-d-student-rob-acker-presented-in-hong-kong-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/06\/10\/ph-d-student-rob-acker-presented-in-hong-kong-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Student, Rob Acker, Presented in Hong Kong This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Acker, Ph.D. student in LEO, presented at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eduhk.hk\/apclc\/events\/fsf26.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Future Scholars Forum in Leadership and Policy Studies<\/a>\u00a0in Hong Kong, China this week. Rob&#8217;s presentation was titled\u00a0<i>&#8220;Finding Comfort in the Discomfort&#8221;: Professional Learning in Deeper Learning Schools<\/i>, and featured an upcoming co-authored article with Dr. Scott McLeod. Their research\u00a0explored what professional development looks like, from the teacher perspective, in project-and inquiry-based learning schools across the U.S. Rob is fluent in Mandarin, and his summer will continue with a month of in-person teaching in Beijing\u00a0as part of CU Denver&#8217;s partnership with International College Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/06\/10\/ph-d-student-rob-acker-presented-in-hong-kong-this-week\/2026-fsf-acker-02-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21059\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21059\" src=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-02-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-02-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-02-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/06\/10\/ph-d-student-rob-acker-presented-in-hong-kong-this-week\/2026-fsf-acker-03-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21060\" src=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-03-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-03-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-03-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/06\/10\/ph-d-student-rob-acker-presented-in-hong-kong-this-week\/2026-fsf-acker-01-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21061\" src=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-01-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/2026-FSF-Acker-01-1-768x328.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Acker, Ph.D. student in LEO, presented at the\u00a0Future Scholars Forum in Leadership and Policy Studies\u00a0in Hong Kong, China this week. Rob&#8217;s presentation was titled\u00a0&#8220;Finding Comfort in the Discomfort&#8221;: Professional Learning in Deeper Learning Schools, and featured an upcoming co-authored article with Dr. Scott McLeod. Their research\u00a0explored what professional development looks like, from the teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-student-achievement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056","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=21056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21058,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}