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Information sessions for current undergraduate students interested in the undergraduate teacher licensure program begin Jan. 19, 2012. The meetings introduce the program, coursework requirements and the admissions process. See the Office of Student Services, room 151, for details and if you cannot attend, see the Undergraduate Teacher Licensure Program Prospective Student Guide
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School of Education offering first Education Minor in Fall 2011…read details
Complete this Education Minor Declaration Form
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Course Schedule:
Spring 2012 schedule
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Admission Deadlines for the School of Education |
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Undergraduate Information Sessions for students interested in applying to School of Education programs must attend one of these sessions for pre-admission advising...see schedule |
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Buy your tickets for CU athletic events at www.cubuffs.com/tickets |
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| School of Education Updates |
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Photo Gallery of Recent Events - Graduation photos galore! See the May 5, 2011, School of Education graduation photos AND the May 27, 2011, BUENO-HEP graduation photos! Also look at the May 6, 2011, Mega Reunion photos! |
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Karla del Rosal Bujanda and Cristin Jensen Lasser will present at the 56th Annual Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Puerto Rico this April—Lasser will present on Collaborative Strategic Reading for Emerging Bilinguals and Bujanda will present on “Appropriating Formative Assessment as a Tool for Assessing and Promoting Mathematical Academic Language Among English Language Learners” |
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Janet Lopez, who earned her MA here in educational foundations, policy, and practice, has been named program officer for the education program area at Rose Community Foundation where she will direct efforts to promote effective teaching and systemic changes in education |
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Roxana Pollard has accepted a social studies job with Coal Ridge Middle School in Firestone, Colo., where she will be teaching 7th grade world geography and 8th grade U.S. history. She noted, “I couldn't have done it without all the help from the wonderful people in the education department at CU. Thank you so much. I am so excited to officially start my teaching career.” |
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Several hundred people attended the 13th Annual Best Should Teach Awards and Lecture in the Glenn Miller Ballroom Aug. 18. Chancellor Philip DiStefano delivered the keynote address on “The Best Should Teach” Legacy. Two School of Education faculty, Ruben Donato and Dan Liston, received Faculty Gold Awards and five K-12 teachers earned teaching Gold Awards…see story and photos |
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Alex Molnar is quoted in the New York Times for a story about online charter schools |
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English education preservice teachers Katie Volkmar, Jessica Romero and Kaitlyn Dillon presented at the annual National Council of Teachers of English convention in Chicago Nov. 18. Their presentation, "Paying Attention to Language in Secondary ELA Classrooms: Power, Style, and Variety," was based on course projects from their “Language Study for Educators” class with Anne DiPardo last fall |
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Diane Ullman (PhD ’86) was selected by the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents as the Superintendent of the Year for 2012. Ullman is currently the Superintendent of the Simsbury Public Schools |
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Kyle Fujimoto will teach algebra 1 and geometry at Skyline High School, Longmont, Colo. |
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Chris Hackenberg, a
2011 MA+ graduate, was hired as a math teacher at Silver Creek High School, Longmont, Colo. |
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Brittni Smith accepted a job teaching 7th grade literacy at Boston K-8 in Aurora, Colo. |
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Amy (Duvall) Beckmann will teach second grade at Sable Elementary School, part of the Aurora, Colo., Public Schools |
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Janay Hagen was hired at Erie, Colo., High School as the full-time choral director |
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Cathy Ziebold will teach first grade at Prospect Ridge Academy, a new charter school in the Adams 12 Five Star, Colo., School District |
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Christy Jackson accepted a second grade teaching position at Prospect Ridge Academy, a new charter school in the Adams 12 Five Star, Colo., School District |
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Alexis Veeh will teach science at East Middle School, Aurora, Colo. |
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Nicole Virkler will teach Spanish 1 and 2 at Landstown High School, Virginia Beach, Va. |
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Lindsey Dubetz will teach high school Spanish at Air Academy High School, USAFA, Colo., District 20 |
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Adrienne Jones accepted a position teaching English in Galicia, Spain, next year |
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Read great coverage on STEM Education and the Colorado Learning Assistant Program |
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Read a terrific story on the Noyce fellowship program at CU-Boulder |
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Fall 2011 Education Views newsletter |
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| Spotlight
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Cassandra Ly (BA BioChem ’10) worked with undergraduates as a Learning Assistant in a chemistry lab. She now teaches 7th-grade science at a middle school in Broomfield…watch her video and discover how she chose teaching as a career |
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Kris Gutiérrez was selected by the International Reading Association to be part of an expert research panel intended to provide leadership for quality literacy instruction, initially looking at four critical issues: the achievement gap, motivation and engagement, standards and assessments, and teacher education |
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REM PhD alum Matt Gaertner won the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) 2012 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award |
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CU-Boulder is one of 34 new members nationwide selected to join an innovative organization, 100Kin10, committed to recruit, prepare and retain 100,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers and President Obama acknowledged the group Feb. 7 when announcing the second White House Science Fair |
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Margaret Eisenhart presented the keynote address, “Landscapes of Difference and Inequality through the Lens of Educational Ethnography in the U.S.,” at the Conference on Ethnography and Difference in Educational Fields: International Developments, in Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany |
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Margaret LeCompte and Dorothy Aguilera-Black Bear have co-authored “Revisiting Reliability and Validity in Higher Education Research and Program Evaluation” ( 2012) in Secolsky, C. & Denision, D. B. (Eds.), Handbook of measurement, assessment and evaluation in higher education, New York, NY: Routledge |
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Bill Penuel presents a webinar, “Young Children’s Learning with Digital Media,” Monday, Jan. 23, for early childhood educators around the country as part of his work for the National Center for Quality Teaching and Learning in The Office of Head Start…read more and register |
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The 3rd Annual R.I.S.E. Spring Symposium will be Friday, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Wolf Law Building Wittemyer Courtroom...to RSVP for lunch or for more information, e-mail rise@colorado.edu |
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March 10 the School of Education and One Colorado will co-host a Statewide Convening on LGBT Youth, with co-chair Gov. John Hickenlooper…read the details and register |
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NEPC continues to garner significant media coverage for its reports and research…read this latest column in The New York Times about online charter schools |
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Gene Glass led the way for School of Education faculty who were listed in the Rick Hess Straight Up 2012 Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings, along with Lorrie Shepard, Kevin Welner and Kris Gutiérrez |
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Ben Kirshner and PhD alumna Kristen M. Pozzoboni co-authored “Student Interpretations of a School Closure: Implications for Student Voice in Equity-Based School Reform” in Teachers College Record, Volume 113, Number 8 |
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Lorrie Shepard talked about the purpose and practice of teacher evaluation at the 18th Annual Boisi Lecture in Education and Public Policy and was featured in Boston College Magazine and The Boston College Chronicle |
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Alumnus Chase Grubman sends his last blog from his experience with the English Opens Doors Program in Chile—read about his final travels and his summation of what he learned |
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Award-winning author, Avi, visited Caroline McKinney’s “Foundations of Reading (EDUC 5245)” class recently. Avi has written more than 70 books, earning Newbery Awards and Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, among others. His books include multiple genres, such as picture books, young adult, mysteries, and historical and adventure fiction |
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Greg Camilli has reviewed the book, Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research by Richard J. Murnane and John B. Willet, for the Education Review, an open-access ("free-to-read") journal |
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Kevin Welner garners extensive media coverage: Education Week, Mike Lemaire’s Online Education Blog, The New York Times and International Business Times |
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Robbie Bean (PhD ’79) of Denver, who retired in 1992 after 35 years of teaching in the Denver Public Schools, received numerous awards this year: the 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Business Social Responsibility Award and its sixth annual Trailblazer Award, a Community Award from New Hope Baptist Church and the Humanitarian Lifetime Achievement Award for 2011 from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission… read more |
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Bill Penuel hosted Professor Sarah Michaels of Clark University on Nov. 15; she spoke on "Conceptualizing Talk Moves as Tools"…read a summary |
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Shelby Wolf's newly published monograph explores the amalgamation of two schools in England through the lens of the artistic experiences of those involved...read story and see photos of students' artistic expressions |
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Educator and CU-Boulder alumnus George W. Diedrich died recently. His family has established a Facebook page in his honor and The Denver Post carried an obituary |
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The educational screening of the documentary, "American Teacher," Nov. 3 was a great success...read story for details |
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Alaina Feltenberger, a doctoral student in Literacy Curriculum and Instruction, was published in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal and the National Writing Project republished an earlier article of hers |
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Streamline to Mastery offers a unique professional development program for new K-12 teachers…read the story |
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