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Each year, over 200 mentor teachers from over 30 partner schools give their time, energy and expertise to supporting our CU 麻豆影院 School of Education student teachers. Watch our video or read the quotes below to see how mentor teachers impact our student teachers.

In the heart of Cuba, New Mexico, an impactful collaboration aims to confront systemic inequities in education by centering student voices. Launched in the summer of 2021, the collaboration brings together CU 麻豆影院 education researchers and Cuba Independent School District students, teachers and stakeholders during an annual six-week summer program focused on educational equity.

When Abigail Goldberg graduated with her undergraduate degree in anthropology, she was set to pursue a career in death investigating. An unexpected job during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, changed her whole career course and launched her into teaching. During the pandemic, Goldberg started a job teaching seventh and eighth grade...

As an accomplished teacher, emerging educational historian and rigorous scholar, PhD graduate Derek LeFebre demonstrates exemplary passion and commitment to his work. A Colorado native raised in Aurora, Colorado, LeFebre taught history, science and Spanish in Greeley for over 10 years before starting his doctoral studies. He chose to complete...

In fall 2022, two education students had a light bulb moment: the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education needs a student government that helps organize community-building activities and supports leadership skills among aspiring educators. Over the past two years, the entirely student-led organization has grown in membership and participation.

To honor aspiring teachers, the Colorado Department of Higher Education kicked off the 2024 Teacher Appreciation Week with the Future Educator Honor Roll on May 6 to celebrate our state鈥檚 top teacher candidates, including two of our outstanding, up-and-coming teacher education graduates, Emily Gillette and Morgan Rains.

Jessica Valadez Fraire will soon graduate with an Elementary Education degree from the 麻豆影院, but she didn鈥檛 set out to be an elementary teacher. Her early schooling experiences were 鈥渋solating and difficult鈥� as a Brown, bilingual student growing up in largely white, affluent 麻豆影院. Valadez Fraire鈥檚 life...

A veteran educator with nearly a decade of experience practicing as an elementary school teacher and administrator in New York City, Elizabeth Tetu is well acquainted with the common themes that affect teachers in their first years of teaching. 鈥淔eelings of overwhelm and failure, a sense of having been inadequately...

After working for the CU 麻豆影院 Office of Information Technology for six years, Marcus Williams decided to switch careers and enroll in the one-year intensive MA+ Secondary Humanities Teacher Licensure program to become a teacher. 鈥淎s a teacher, Marcus is guided by unwavering commitments to justice and to organizing culturally...

Born and raised in Aurora, Colorado, Hasan Elsayed had a love of math and science from an early age. Now as a math and science teacher, he gets to live his dream of empowering students to pursue their aspirations and achieve success. Despite initially planning to pursue physics and graduate...