TILDE Denver Public Schools Masters and Endorsement Scholarship

NOTICE: This program is closed to new applications.

Please contact Tammy Molinar-LeBlanc - Director of Field Graduate Cohorts, molinar@colorado.edu, with questions on possible upcoming opportunities and/or to be put on the waiting list for future grant and district cohorts.

This is an opportunity for bilingual teachers in the Denver Public School District to simultaneously earn a Master of Arts in Education, Equity and Cultural Diversity, a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) endorsement, and a Bilingual Specialist endorsement through the University of Colorado Boulder!

Teachers Improving Learning in Dual Education (TILDE) Project is a National Professional Development (NPD) funded project offered by the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) at the U.S. Department of Education. Bilingual/Dual language teachers in Denver Public Schools graduating from this project will earn a Master of Arts degree in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity (EECD) and a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD)/ Bilingual Specialist Endorsement. Funding from this grant will pay for all tuition costs. Materials and book costs will need to be covered by the student. In addition to developing teachers’ skills and understanding in teaching bilingual learners, the project will also focus on developing teachers’ abilities to engage with families and the community by including a parent/community engagement component to each of the courses in the program. In order to meet the grant’s competitive priority, a randomized control trial will be conducted to test the efficacy of a dual language writing strategy found to meet the What Works Clearinghouse Evidence standards. Participating teachers will need to implement this strategy in Fall 2020. This program will deliver two courses in Spanish and most courses will be held in a dual language/bilingual school in DPS.

The 25 teachers selected to participate in this program will form a cohort that will begin taking classes Spring 2020 and will finish taking classes Summer 2022. Teachers are expected to take one class each fall and spring and two classes each summer until all required credits have been earned (30-31 credits total). Fall and spring courses generally meet once per week from approximately 5:00-7:30 p.m. Each summer class meets for 3-4 weeks every weekday for 3 hours (e.g. M-F, 9:00-12:00). Two summer classes, therefore, will involve 6-8 weeks of your summer vacation.

Classes are coordinated by the staff of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education and CU Boulder School of Education. Courses will likely be located at a DPS school. If selected to participate, you will commit to taking all courses with your cohort group, commute to the course location, pay for all books and materials, participate in the research studies, and attend class and complete all assignments. In exchange, your course tuition is paid by the grant.

Tuition for this program is provided through a Federal Grant. As such, the funding period is limited to the time period outlined above. Students must make continued steady progress to complete the program before the funding expires and remain with their cohort from Spring 2020 to Summer 2022.

Also, see the Lotta Lara lesson plans developed through the TILDE project.

Below are the course requirements:
 

Tentative Schedule of Courses (Cohort II)

Admission

Contact information:

Dr. Deena Gumina, Project Director
Dr. Sandra Butvilofsky - Principal Investigator
Mary Beth Snow & Elizabeth Silva Diaz

BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
School of Education, 247 UCB
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO  80309-0247

Email: lorenso.aragon@colorado.edu
Office: 303-492-6043
Fax: 303-492-2883