What We’re Reading

¡Qué BUENO!: A History of Advocacy and Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education

Edited by David Nieto, Kathy Escamilla, Estella Almanza, Tania Hogan and Jesús Rodríguez

This book showcases the past 50 years of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, CU Boulder’s oldest multicultural-serving center on campus. It chronicles the center’s innovative pathways and access to educational opportunities for historically underrepresented groups, particularly Latinos, and their access to comprehensive professional learning opportunities for educators and educational leaders. Featured prominently is Leonard Baca, founder and leader of the BUENO Center for 40 years, who has been aptly considered the “godfather of the field of bilingual special education.”

The book contains chapters written by education leaders, in addition to the editors, including Lorenso Aragon, Alfredo Artilles, Tim Boals, Alison G. Boardman, Mariana Castro, Lorretta Chávez, Nancy Commins, Alejandro Escamilla, Manuel Escamilla, Robert García, Rocky Hill, John Hoover, Susan Hopewell, Andrés Martínez, Barbara Medina, Tammy Molinar-Leblanc, David Nieto, Martha Ochoa, Ángeles Osorio, Deborah Palmer, Nadeen Ruiz, Ernesto Sánchez, Cristina Sánchez-López, Cristina Santamaría Graff, Juli Sarris, Jody Slavick, Kim Strong, Lyanne Terada, Martha Urioste, Peter Vigil and Theresa Young.

"¡Qué BUENO! is for every educator, student, family and concerned citizen who shares that dream of a truly inclusive education system where all learners are seen, understood and supported."

— Tania Hogan, executive director of the BUENO Center and one of the book’s co-authors

A quick look at the recent books from our faculty and alumni community:

Education and the Law, 6th Edition

Kevin Welner, Robert Kim and Stuart Biegel

“With extensive restructuring and new content, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy issues affecting K-12 as well as higher education, including expanded coverage of First Amendment issues in both sectors. The book maintains its strong focus on equal access to quality education, its policy emphasis and its groundbreaking analyses of technology-related issues and the education of LGBTQ+ students.”

—West Academic Publishing

Equity in K-12 STEM Education: Framing Decisions for the Future By an authoring committee of experts including

William Penuel

“(This consensus study report) approaches equity in STEM education not as a singular goal but as an ongoing process that requires intentional decision-making and action toward addressing and disrupting existing inequities and envisioning a more just future. Stakeholders at all levels of the education system—including state, district, and school leaders and classroom teachers—have roles as decision-makers who can advance equity.”

— The National Academies Press

Learning Together: Organizing Schools for Teacher and Student Learning

Elham Kazemi, Jessica Calabrese, Teresa Lind, Becca Lewis, Alison Fox Resnick and Lynsey K. Gibbons

“In Learning Together, [authors] share findings from their decade of experience in nurturing collaborative learning cultures in elementary schools. The authors recommend practical actions that can help to cultivate a schoolwide ethos of instructional collaboration.”

— Harvard Education Press

On the Same Team: Bringing Educators and Underrepresented Families Together

Ari Gerzon-Kessler (MEdu’05)

“On the Same Team highlights the research-based approach of having a school-level action team —Families and Educators Together—to lead and guide high-impact family engagement initiatives. I recommend this book to any school, district or state leader who is looking for a systematic approach to taking their family engagement efforts to the next level.”

— Darcy Hutchins, director of Family, School and Community Partnerships, Colorado Department of Education

Teaching in the Dark: A Memoir

Genét Simone (PhDEdu’04)

“In a fascinating, poignant and often humorous retelling of her experiences, Simone details how she relied on her courage, resilience and wit to endure freezing temperatures, power outages, loneliness and first-year teacher anxieties and missteps. Those challenges, however, would pale in comparison to the life lessons she would learn about becoming a real teacher—lessons from her students, their culture and community on the vast, windy landscape at the edge of the Chukchi Sea (in Alaska).”

— Nonfiction Authors Association Alumni Connections 22