sj Miller selected for international project embedding social justice into curriculum

April 22, 2016

sj Miller , associate professor of literacy studies, has been selected for an international project hosted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP). The ambitious UNESCO-MGIEP project aims to integrate education for peace, sustainable...

University Women鈥檚 Club to honor Dean Lorrie Shepard

April 21, 2016

The University Women鈥檚 Club of CU 麻豆影院 has named Dean Lorrie Shepard the recipient of the Margaret Willard Award. Nominated by alumna Karon Johnson (MA, 1990), the award is given to recipients who: demonstrate outstanding work in her field, enhance the quality of life for women on the 麻豆影院 campus...

Ken Howe earns Lifetime Achievement Award from John Dewey Society

April 13, 2016

Kenneth Howe has been named the 2016 recipient of the John Dewey Society 鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement. The award honors a scholar-practitioner who exemplifies, over a lifetime of work, the Deweyan tradition of connecting the worlds of theory and practice in promoting the development of democratic citizens, and/or...

New book by Erin Furtak helps teachers harness the power of student feedback

April 12, 2016

With the support of a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation , Erin Furtak has been investigating how a long-term professional development program centered on a learning progression for natural selection can support high school teachers in iteratively designing, enacting, and revising formative assessments. Furtak co-authored the recently published...

Michele Moses鈥 newly released book delves into the debate on affirmative action

April 12, 2016

In her new book, Michele S. Moses offers a crucial new pathway for thinking about the debate surrounding educational affirmative action, one that holds the debate itself as an important emblem of the democratic process. Moses is Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Education at...

Alumna Erin Park earns National Science Teachers Association early career award

April 8, 2016

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has awarded CU-麻豆影院 School of Education alumna Erin Park a 2016 Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award for New Teachers. The Simmons Award recognizes select K-12 teachers in their first five years of teaching, and as an award recipient, Park was honored at the NSTA...

Kevin Welner and Michele Ren茅e co-chair public scholarship-centered AERA conference

April 5, 2016

As the American Educational Research Association (AERA) marks its centennial year, several scholars from the centennial state are helping plan the organization鈥檚 big celebration and annual meeting held April 8-12 in Washington, D.C. Along with the AERA President Jeannie Oakes, AERA Annual Meeting co-chairs Kevin Welner and Michelle Ren茅e have...

Celebrating our faculty: Send best wishes for Professors Eisenhart and Howe

April 4, 2016

Margaret Eisenhart and Ken Howe joined the School of Education faculty in the same year, 1987. Hired as 鈥渞ising scholars鈥 by then-Dean and now-Chancellor Phil DiStefano, the pair helped usher in a new era of excellence in research for the school. It is only fitting that these two beloved and...

Sabrina Sideris awarded Outreach & Engagement Staff Excellence Honors

April 1, 2016

Sabrina Sideris, program director for INVST Community Studies , has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Anne K. Heinz Staff Award for Excellence in Outreach & Engagement. The award honors a staff member who has demonstrated outstanding professional commitments to and success with community outreach and engagement initiatives...

Meet Lindsay Roberts, our new librarian

March 31, 2016

Lindsay received her bachelor鈥檚 degrees in both French and Humanities from CU 麻豆影院 in 2009. Shortly after graduating she spent a year teaching high school English in France through the French Embassy鈥檚 Teacher Assistantship Program. Before returning to CU she received her Master鈥檚 degree in Library and Information Science at...

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