Education Buzz - August 2019

Welcome back to the School of Education and the first Education Buzz of the semester. Keep reading for information about upcoming events, recent news and more.

Join us at the 2019 Best Should Teach Ceremony on Sept. 12

The Best Should Teach Lecture and Awards Ceremony celebrates excellence in education by honoring outstanding CU Boulder faculty members—including our own Wendy Glenn—K-12 teachers and graduate student teachers. Free and open to the public the ceremony will feature award-winning author and University of Georgia professor Bettina L. Love, who will deliver the keynote talk, “We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching as anti-racist pedagogy.”

Highlights

Meet our new School of Education faculty

At the CU Boulder School of Education, we are excited to welcome five new faculty members who will immensely enhance our community of educators and learners. Learn more about them, and please join us in welcoming them to our school and community.

Be a School of Education Undergraduate Ambassador!

School of Education undergaduate ambassadors are students who promote the school and act as a liaison to prospective students and families through informational and outreach events. An ambassador is a volunteer position that is for a full academic year. Applications are open now until Oct.1.

CU Boulder to host national conference on classroom assessment

The third National Council on Measurement in Education Special Conference on Classroom Assessment is coming to CU Boulder from Sept. 18-19. The gathering, hosted by our CADRE Center, aims to foster dialogue between educators, policymakers and researchers around implementing principled approaches to developing and using classroom assessment for teaching and learning.