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In this newly released short video, “Stand with Queer Youth,” authors and organizers from the 2015 Queer Young Adult Literature Conference reflect on how literature can be means to positively impact the understandings and experiences of queer youth in schools. The conference was organized by the University of Colorado Boulder’s...

Written by Kent Willmann This summer 40 dedicated and talented educators from St. Vrain, Boulder Valley and CU spent a week in a workshop learning Boulder County Latino History. It was part of a larger community based effort to collect and tell the under-told story of our Latino population. The...

Thirty-two Latin@ and Chican@ Colorado high school students are immersing themselves in college life and learning July 12th-18th at the University of Colorado Boulder as part of the third annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowerment summer program. The free residential program provides high school students with strong ties...

A group of low-income Lafayette teens are finding their voice this summer. The Lafayette Peer Empowerment Project through CU Engage: Center for Community-Based Research , housed in the School of Education, has started a discussion with forty-nine 7th through 10th grade students to hear what they think are their obstacles...

CU Boulder School of Education doctoral student Quána Madison was recently a distinguished guest on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft , stationed off the coast of San Diego. She was invited by US Naval Commander Tamara Graham, Director of the Navy’s Diversity and Inclusion program. Commander Graham met Quána while...

Rather than just absorbing research by others, a group of CU Boulder undergraduates embarked on their own research-based inquiry into what motivates students of color to fully participate in campus activities – or to hold back. The student-driven research paper, entitled Students of Color Are Motivated Agents of Change: Why...

Ben Kirshner , PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also serves as Faculty Director of CU Engage: Community-Based Learning and Research , whose mission is to work collaboratively with students, staff, faculty, and community...

Jorge García , Director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education , housed in the University of Colorado Boulder’s School of Education, has been working with Colorado school districts to develop criteria on a new Seal of Biliteracy to appear on 2016 high school graduates. “Estudiantes de secundaria de Escuelas...

Boulder alumna Bonnie Sizer recently finished a two week workshop with the Boulder Valley iStar Bridge to Success Program as an iStar Program Facilitator. iStar is an interest-focused, strengths-based and family-centered technology education program, developed by the University of Utah, that provides youth with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) learning opportunities...

School of Education Alumni: Christine Askham, Meghan Mosher The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation named three CU Boulder alumnae— Christine Askham , Meghan Mosher and Dawn Yetter — to its 2015 Teaching Fellows cohort. This year, KSTF awarded teaching fellowships to 34 promising high school mathematics and science teachers who are...