Children's Book Festival 2023

Children鈥檚 Book Festival to feature culturally diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators on Nov. 9

Oct. 24, 2024

The 麻豆影院 School of Education, in collaboration with the 麻豆影院 Book Store, is thrilled to announce the 6th Annual Children鈥檚 Book Festival, taking place on Saturday, Nov. 9 at the 麻豆影院 Public Library. The free event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and it welcomes teachers, children, families, librarians and 鈥渁ll who enjoy children鈥檚 literature.鈥

School of Education Ribbon-cutting

It takes a village: School of Education and community celebrate new campus home

Oct. 21, 2024

After more than five years of fundraising efforts, CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 School of Education celebrated moving into its new campus home: the Ofelia Miramontes and Leonard Baca Education Building. The milestone was marked with a festive building dedication and community open house to showcase the school鈥檚 collaborative new spaces, highlight its influential research, celebrate educators and honor the passionate community that made the project possible.

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What is Colorado鈥檚 鈥榮chool choice鈥 Amendment 80 all about? Education policy expert weighs in

Oct. 18, 2024

This election season, voters across Colorado will decide on Amendment 80, which would add language establishing, among other things, a 鈥渞ight to school choice鈥 into Colorado鈥檚 constitution. Education Professor Kevin Welner, a legal scholar and director of the National Education Policy Center, weighs in.

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Join us for the School of Education Building Dedication on Friday, Oct. 4

Sept. 5, 2024

The CU 麻豆影院 School of Education Building Dedication and Open House will begin with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Ofelia Miramontes and Leonard Baca Education Building and a family-friendly open house will follow. Learn more about the education research, student work, donor support and community impact through stations designed to spark creativity and joy while uplifting the power of educators.

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Meet our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor AJ Schiera

Aug. 16, 2024

At the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education, we are excited to welcome and announce new faculty members who bring a variety of experiences and enhance our community of educators and learners. Meet some of them here, and please join us in welcoming them to our school and community.

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Are school boards becoming politicized? Expert weighs in

Aug. 14, 2024

As children across the U.S. head back to class, their educations will be shaped by the decisions of nearly 13,000 school boards. Anna Deese, a PhD student in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice and former school board member from Montana, breaks down some of the biggest misconceptions.

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Welcome Back, Chancellor Emeritus Phil DiStefano聽

Aug. 8, 2024

Phil DiStefano reflects on returning to the School of Education after 15 years as Chancellor. For the former high school teacher and first-generation college graduate, DiStefano is excited about 鈥渃oming home" to education faculty after 50 years at CU 麻豆影院. See what the newly minted Chancellor Emeritus has to say about this special homecoming.

OpenSciEd workshop

High school student curiosity drives new open-source science curricula

July 24, 2024

A coalition of educators from 10 states and led by CU 麻豆影院 has released a new series of free science curricula for high school students鈥攖ouching on issues critical to the lives of young people, from wildfires to rising sea levels and cancer biology. The new curricula, called OpenSciEd High School, is a three-year high school science program designed by a consortium of developers led by the inquiryHub, a research-practice partnership.

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Women of color disproportionately targeted by book bans, study finds

July 2, 2024

In 2023, the American Library Association documented attempts to remove more than 4,000 books from schools and libraries across the U.S. In one of the first comprehensive analyses of book bans in the U.S., Katie Spoon, a PhD candidate in computer science and a master鈥檚 student in the School of Education, and collaborators revealed that these bans disproportionally target women authors of color and books that feature characters of color.

Adria Padilla-Chavez in the Adams 12 Five Star Schools's Newcomer Center. (Credit: School of Education)

Meeting the needs of Colorado鈥檚 鈥榥ewcomer鈥 K-12 students

June 20, 2024

This year, schools across Colorado experienced an influx of students, many of them migrants from Latin and South America. A small but dedicated group of scholars at the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education are helping teachers meet the needs of these new arrivals.

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