Tutor reading to children

Essential supports for essential employees

Nov. 4, 2021

New program addresses local educational inequities Laura López’s 14-year-old daughter came home from school puzzled. “You must have talked with my math teacher,” she probed. López had not contacted the teacher, but her daughter’s CU Boulder tutor had. Lexie Van Voorhees, a secondary education student in the CU Boulder School...

Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez

Meet Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez, our new School of Education faculty

Aug. 30, 2021

At the CU Boulder School of Education, we are excited to announce Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez, our newest faculty member who joins our community of educators and learners. Meet her below, and please join us in welcoming her to our school and community.

Cat Flynn

Alumni Connections: Cat Flynn, the food justice advocate

As a student teacher in Denver Public Schools, Cat Flynn (elementary licensure, 2019) fell in love with the community at the historic Denver elementary, Dora Moore Elementary. She also recognized many of her students’ challenges. “I learned so much about the biggest issues that students face both in and outside...

Holly Kirtz

Alumni Connections: Holly Kurtz, the research journalist

As a journalist covering the education beat in Denver, Holly Kurtz (PhDEdu’13) turned to CU Boulder professor and National Education Policy Center Director Kevin Welner many times as an expert source. One fateful conversation changed the trajectory for Kurtz, who went from Welner’s interviewer to advisee in the educational foundations,...

Jonathan Lev

Alumni Connections: Jonathan Lev, the community center director

Jonathan Lev’s career came full circle when he joined the Boulder Jewish Community Center (Boulder JCC) as Executive Director in 2010. While his path to his current position was winding, he credits his CU Boulder teacher education experience as foundational to his work now and experiences along the way. “So...

Claire France and lunches

Alumni Connections: Claire France, the entrepreneur

Cruising along in a vintage van surrounded by the New Zealand landscape, Claire France (elementary education 2019) and her boyfriend began dreaming about their next steps after life as students at CU Boulder. It was no ordinary trip, and France used that experience to plan for an extraordinary way to...

books

What we're reading

A glimpse into what colleagues are saying about our faculty’s recent publications and more.

wellness institute

HighlightED

Brief updates about what’s new in the School of Education New wellness institute brings together communities in research-practice partnerships The Renée Crown Wellness Institute, established by Colorado philanthropist Patricia Crown, is committed to building a world in which health and wellness are valued, promoted and protected for all children and...

Fleming building

A sense of place

Building for the future of education We all know those places that feel like home. This summer our school moved into a newly renovated building on campus, and it just feels like home with its plentiful spaces for community building, colorful and technologically equipped classrooms, and locally created art honoring...

At the heart of human caring

At the heart of healing

Education alumna is transforming medicine through human caring A tireless quest to expand knowledge and practices of human caring has sent Jean Watson around the world more than 20 times, where she has shared her theory of human caring and healing to educate the next generation of nursing and medical...

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