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As a member of the Colorado Language Arts Society (CLAS) conference committee, PhD Candidate Mike Wenk recently helped to organize a successful annual meeting held in Golden, CO. Approximately 250 Language Arts teachers, preservice teachers, professors, and administrators from across the state gathered to collaborate on high quality Language Arts...

By invitation of the CU-Boulder Athletic Department, Professor Dan Liston was featured during the recent Colorado Buffaloes football game against Oregon State as the "Faculty Coach of the Game." Faculty members are nominated to be Faculty Coach of the Game by student-athletes, the Boulder Faculty Assembly, the Chancellor's Office, or...

For 27 years, the Partners in Education (PIE) Master's program has offered a unique opportunity for teachers entering their first through third years of teaching to work toward their Master's degree while benefiting from both intensive coaching with mentors and collaboration with other PIE teachers. Prospective and novice teachers must...

Carrie Allen , a PhD Candidate in the Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences program, has been selected as a 2014-2015 fellow of the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) . CADRE is "a resource network funded by the National Science Foundation that supports researchers and developers who participate...

Associate Professor of Literacy Studies sj Miller was voted unanimously onto the Board of Trustees of the Lambda Literary Foundation . As stated in its mission, "Lambda Literary believes Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer literature is fundamental to the preservation of our culture, and that LGBTQ lives are affirmed...

At the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) held at CU-Boulder in June 2014, five doctoral alumni presented a special session in honor of Distinguished Professor Margaret Eisenhart . The session, “Reimagining Cultural Forms, Ethnographic Methods and Researcher Responsibilities in Studying Engineering and Science Learning: Honoring and Building on...

This KQED Mind/Shift blog article highlights Professor Bill Penuel 's work with SRI International and the Next Generation Science Standards . by Ingfei Chen | September 26, 2014 Putting kids to work on meaningful projects can transform classrooms into beehives of inquiry and discovery, but relatively few rigorous studies have...

Are you interested in becoming a teacher? Unsure if teaching is right for you? Worried you will not complete the program in time? Do you want to know how to incorporate the education program with your major? Interested in other educational opportunities - the education minor, teaching abroad, or community...

The University of Colorado Boulder greatly expanded its CU Promise program for low-income students this fall resulting in funding assistance becoming available for more than 700 additional students. The CU Promise program guarantees that CU Boulder students with Colorado resident status from low-income families can receive enough grants and work-study...