Pexels photo by Harun Tan On a historic day, when the state of Georgia鈥檚 Senate election of a Black pastor from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's church was announced, white supremacists marched to the U.S. Capitol building with a confederate flag. This violent insurrection at the Capitol by white nationalists...
With many K-12 schools switched to remote or hybrid learning settings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CU Teach partner schools and teachers have been particularly grateful to have support from CU Boulder students. The one-credit Step 1 (EDUC 2020) and Step 2 (EDUC 2030) education courses invite CU Boulder STEM majors to explore teaching and work with elementary classrooms.
In 鈥淧ublic Influence Rankings鈥 released Jan. 6, two members of the CU Boulder School of Education faculty were recognized as among the nation鈥檚 top 200 researchers whose scholarship bridges academic and public audiences. Professors Kevin Welner and Bill Penuel were listed among national Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.
As challenging as this year has been, we have a lot to celebrate as 2020 comes to a close and 2021 begins. Here are just some of our top highlights from the CU Boulder School of Education's year, and we look forward to new possibilities in the coming year. We officially moved into the renovated Fleming building, adapted learning and working environments for safety, recommitted to justice, and more.
Youth leaders in the Public Achievement program are navigating uncertain times during the COVID-19 pandemic. They鈥檝e discovered new ways to express themselves through digital tools, including a series of webinars covering some of the biggest issues affecting their lives 鈥 voting rights, the Black Lives Matter movement, COVID-19 health inequities, and more.
William Penuel has been named Distinguished Professor, which recognizes faculty members鈥 outstanding contributions to their academic disciplines and is the highest honor for faculty bestowed by the University of Colorado. Penuel is an influential scholar in the learning sciences, whose work is reimagining educational research and curricula design.
The latest issue of the CU Boulder School of Education's magazine, Voices, centers wellness through stories of mindfulness in the classroom, powerful community schools, hip-hop and youth learning, poetry to engage educators, and more. Check it out.
This fall, CU Boulder's Ed Talks centered educators' voices and visions for the future. From a first-year teacher to a co-founder of an innovative new school, speakers shared how they are sustaining and supporting themselves, their colleagues, their students, and their communities in these challenging times. Watch the special virtual event in its entirety or view individual talks online.
As a student teacher in Denver Public Schools, Cat Flynn (elementary licensure, 2019) fell in love with the community at the historic Denver elementary, Dora Moore Elementary. She also recognized many of her students鈥 challenges. 鈥淚 learned so much about the biggest issues that students face both in and outside...
As a journalist covering the education beat in Denver, Holly Kurtz (PhDEdu鈥13) turned to CU Boulder professor and National Education Policy Center Director Kevin Welner many times as an expert source. One fateful conversation changed the trajectory for Kurtz, who went from Welner鈥檚 interviewer to advisee in the educational foundations,...