Voices Magazine

This has been a particularly unexpected and challenging time in education and beyond. We asked our alumni teachers: What have you learned over the past year and will be carrying into the future?

Please join us in recognizing our faculty who retired recently and learning more about their next steps. What are you excited about in retirement? Julie Andrew, CU Teach master teacher : “I’m excited to do new things. I will be attending the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, and I can’t...

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

Brief updates about what’s new in the School of Education Inaugural cohort of BA graduates working on the forefront of social change The CU Boulder School of Education conferred its first Bachelor of Arts degrees in and elementary education this May. Launched in 2017, both pathways support emerging leaders interested...

Come dream with us This new school year has been different from any other I (and I suspect most of us) have experienced. Although the school year always signals new beginnings, this year there was a heightened sense of beginning again. We returned to campus as a school for the...

Lianna Nixon’s lens on the natural world is changing education and environmental activism Lianna Nixon is an environmental photographer and activist, but on Earth Day 2020 she was not thinking about marches or demonstrations. That day she found out whether she still had her spot on the world’s largest polar...

Toni Christiansen bursts through barriers and advances U.S. diplomacy Toni Christiansen (Edu’70) enrolled at CU Boulder with two dreams: to become a teacher and an international diplomat. The impressive career that followed has been a dream come true. As a teacher in a small mountain town, she arranged out-of-state and...

Stephanie Toliver celebrates Black women in science fiction and beyond Stephanie Toliver was an undergraduate studying English education in Tallahassee, Florida, when she discovered a book that changed her life. The novel was Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Published in 1993, the science fiction story follows a young...

Jen stood in front of her class of ninth grade students at the beginning of our study and asked, “How many of you feel like you’re in charge of writing your own stories? The story of your life?” Students sat in small groups. A few hands went up, but most...

Amid a pandemic and beyond, educators reimagine the future of K–12 schools There has been no such thing as a “normal” year of teaching for up-and-coming educator Diana Bustamante-Aguilar, and she sees that as a good thing. As a student teacher, she joined the masses of educators who protested before...