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Even in high school, Margarita Bianco knew she wanted to be a teacher: Volunteer work with a young boy who had significant support needs piqued her interest in special education. Over the years, she also developed an expertise in gifted education.

Assistant Professor Heather Johnson, School of Education and Human Development at CU Denver, has been invited by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction to present her refereed paper, “Designing Covariation Tasks to Support Students’ Reasoning about Quantities involved in Rate of Change” at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom this July. The forum [...]

Ritu Chopra, executive director of the PAR2A Center and associate research professor at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education and Human Development (SEHD), received the 2012 Colorado TED Excellence in Teacher Educator Award at the Courage to Risk Conference in Colorado Springs in January. The Colorado TED Excellence in Teacher Educator Award recognizes [...]

Farah A. Ibrahim, counseling professor at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, presented a workshop at the recent American Psychological Association’s National Multicultural Conference and Summit. The workshop, “Spiritual-Cultural Assessment and Skills: Counseling Muslims post 9/11,” focused on spiritual-cultural assessment and the knowledge and skills needed to form [...]

In the United States, during recent decades, observers have noted that the student population in K-12 public schools has become more and more ethnically diverse. Over the same time, public school teachers, proportionally are not as diverse. CU Denver’s School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) program Pathways2Teaching is working to increase the number of [...]

School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) colleagues Casey Washburn and Meredith Lopez  are the most recent recipients of the “Let Your Light Shine” award from the CU Denver l Anschutz Medical Campus Exempt Professional Assembly. Honorees for this award are selected based on nominations from peers and colleagues at the university. Both honorees received [...]

Edward Cannon, assistant professor in the counseling program at CU Denver’s School of Education and Human Development, recently received the Mentor Award from the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC), a national professional organization. In the nomination letter, a colleague wrote, “Dr. Cannon has been an excellent mentor to many [...]

Manuel Luis Espinoza, an assistant professor at the School of Education and Human Development at CU Denver, has been named a 2012 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The focus of Espinoza’s work is “rooted in a trio of approaches to education – social interactional studies of classrooms, philosophical investigations into the value of [...]

Marlinda Hines-Sloan, academic adviser at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, is the “Let Your Light Shine” Exempt Professional Assembly Employee of the Month for June 2012. Hines-Sloan was nominated by co-worker Meredith Lopez, who described the award-winner as “always bright and cheerful” and someone who makes time [...]

Science classrooms across Colorado will soon awaken with opportunities to engage students and teachers like never before. Education networks from across the country , along with Battelle, kicked off STEMx at the U.S. News STEM Solutions Summit  in Dallas.  STEMx spotlights 13 state initiatives. The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education and Human Development will [...]

Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver is pleased to announce that it will expand its statewide reach, thanks to a new $811,810 grant from The Colorado Health Foundation. The foundation has provided funding to increase the number of children served as well as support [...]

An autism study by researchers Phil Strain and Ted Bovey from the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development was selected by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Council as one of 20 studies in 2011 that represented significant progress in the field. The council is a congressionally created entity to advance autism research [...]

Farah Ibrahim, a professor in the counseling program at CU Denver’s School of Education and Human Development, recently received the Reese House Social Justice Advocate of the Year Award from the Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ), a national professional organization, during the American Counseling Association’s annual convention. She was selected for the award because of [...]

Deanna Sands, associate dean and professor of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, has been named a member of The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) research team that will implement a mixed-methods, multi-case study to document the success of initial efforts to redesign the education doctorate. [...]

The University of Colorado Denver is moving forward with phase two of an advertising campaign featuring university “partnerships.” It’s called “The Power of Partnership,” and it highlights the unique, innovative and powerful partnerships that CU Denver nurtures with business, industry, education and government. After a successful launch last October, the ad campaign recently moved into [...]

Sara Honda’s positive attitude and willingness to help others has been recognized by her colleagues in the School of Education and Human Development (SEHD), and she has been honored as January’s Staff Council Employee of the Month at CU Denver. Honda helps manage payroll and human resources matters within SEHD. Staff Council Chair Deborah Makray [...]

Maps showing the Tanzania National Parks. Discussions of a three-week trip to a far-off continent. Chatter about gear needed to climb a 19,336-foot peak. Elementary and secondary school teachers gathered in a room at Lawrence Street Center, but this was no ordinary staff meeting. With the maps, boxes of pizza and even a simulated campfire [...]

University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs Professor Mary Guy has been named winner of the NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award for 2012. She will receive this award, considered the top research award in the public administration field, at the ASPA conference in March in Las Vegas. According to SPA Dean Paul Teske, “This is [...]

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year grant of $749,930 to the University of Colorado Denver. The grant will support the project “RCN – SEES: Sustainable Cities – People and the Energy-Climate-Water Nexus,” under the direction of College of Engineering Professor Anu Ramaswami and a team of colleagues from other institutions including Lawrence A. [...]

Rachel Bercovitz, M.D, a Transfusion Medicine fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been named one of 20 hematology and hematology/oncology fellows and junior faculty chosen for the American Society of Hematology Clinical Research Training Institute, a yearlong education and mentoring program designed to prepare participants for careers in patient-oriented research. Participants [...]

Dave Young, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development, recently was sworn in as a representative for State House District 50, which covers a portion of northeastern Colorado, including Greeley. Young, who teaches in the information and technologies program, replaces Rep. Jim Riesberg, who was appointed [...]

          Rebecca Kantor, director of the School of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University, will join the University of Colorado Denver in January as dean for the School of Education and Human Development. Kantor’s career has focused in the areas of early childhood, elementary and middle childhood education. She received [...]

Brad McLain and Mike Marlow of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education and Human Development recently delivered a NASA-sponsored Astrobiology Education and Training (AbET) webinar, “StoryTeaching: An Exploration of the Importance of Story and Narrative in Science Learning.”   During the seminar, they discussed how humans are natural storytellers. Humans describe experiences and [...]