Join the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education for Ed Talks on Tuesday, May 22听at the Dairy Arts Center. Inspired by TED Talks, these short and engaging presentations听led by CU 麻豆影院 education professors听will explore topics such as teacher walkouts,听hate speech on college campuses, distrust in education, and more. Free and open to the public, the talks will take place in the Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Arts Center,听2590 Walnut Street, 麻豆影院.
How Teacher Churn Affects Students and Learning
Allison Atteberry, CU 麻豆影院 assistant professor听
It is not uncommon for teachers to move within their schools, what鈥檚 known as teacher churn. What happens to kids and student achievement when teachers are new to their jobs, districts, grade level or even subject area?
It鈥檚 Not 麻豆影院 Free Speech. It鈥檚 麻豆影院 Truth.
Michele Moses, CU 麻豆影院 professor
It feels like every day there is a new higher education controversy reported in the media, whether it鈥檚 students blocking certain speakers or protests about free speech or hate speech. White nationalist speakers, for example, have promoted violent, discriminatory views on campus. When such incidents happen, university leaders need to respond, to act, to reaffirm the institution鈥檚 guiding values and educational mission. How should leaders handle the public airing of views and perspectives that may be wrong or untrue?
What Happened to Our Trust in Teachers?
Kathy Schultz, CU 麻豆影院 School of Education听dean and professor
We live in a moment saturated with distrust鈥攐f people, motivations, actions, ideas听and institutions. It shapes our feelings about teachers, schools听and educational decisions and policies. At this time in the United States, there is also great dissatisfaction with education reform across the political spectrum. Distrust鈥攁nd the failure to recognize and address it鈥攑lays a significant role in the failure of school reform. The strategies our country has chosen to enact reform create distrust and in so doing undermine precisely the conditions that enable successful educational change.
What Is 鈥� and Isn鈥檛 鈥� a Great School?
Kevin Welner, CU 麻豆影院 professor and director of the National Education Policy Center听
In a time when public schools across the country are under attack, the National Education Policy Center based at CU 麻豆影院听is recognizing high schools that use evidence-based approaches to close opportunity gaps. Learn about this Schools of Opportunity project and how our work is changing the conversation on education鈥攆rom testing to opportunities to learn.
What if Teacher Walkouts Are Just the Beginning?
Terrenda White, CU 麻豆影院 assistant professor
We are experiencing a teacher movement like we鈥檝e never seen before, with statewide walkouts, social media campaigns听and protests at state capitols in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona听and Colorado. And this may only be the beginning. What can we learn from the recent demonstrations about how to support public schools and public school teachers?
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