Lori Lopez in her classroom

Alumna earns SVVSD Teacher of the Year

Dec. 4, 2023

Lori Lopez was named 2023 Teacher of the Year for the St. Vrain Valley School District.

Dean Schultz

Welcome to Voices, volume 6

Dec. 4, 2023

Dean's welcome to our annual Voices magazine.

Families’ remaining objects at the border.

What Remains

Dec. 4, 2023

Braiding and honoring migration dreams and stories at the border wall Ciudad Juárez - El Paso.

Photo of John Hoover & Partner

Best wishes to retiring faculty

Nov. 1, 2022

3 Polaroid style photos of Ruth Cline

Giving Voices to Hidden Histories

Oct. 31, 2022

Growing up in Pueblo, Jason Romero (EthStu’13, MEdu’16) remembers hearing about the stories and struggles of Los Seis de Boulder, six Chicano activists and students killed in car bombings in 1974. “I ended up coming to CU Boulder because I had learned the story of Los Seis,” Romero said. During...

3 Polaroid style photos of Ruth Cline

Passing on the flame: Meet donor Ruth Cline

Oct. 31, 2022

Teachers know their students and how to be helpful for them, and they shouldn’t depend on the school board or other agencies to tell them what to teach.” Ruth Cline has always had a deep concern for education and access to books. The 93-year-old former School of Education faculty member...

Photo of Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez standing infront of a wall mural painting.

Radical Hope

Oct. 31, 2022

Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez in front of a Denver mural by local artist Casey Kawaguchi and Nepali artist Imagine876, who are both known for their street art and Asian influences When Noreen Naseem RodrĂ­guez was a fourth grade bilingual teacher in Austin, Texas, she learned the power of exploring history outside...

Photo of Borderless Roots group

Borderless Roots

Oct. 28, 2022

“My soul is from Chile,” the fifth grader explained. Born in the United States, she describes herself as “kind of” American and Chilean and gravitates toward her Chilean roots. Her description illustrates the complexities of “home” for transnational students who are U.S.-born with family ties across borders in Mexico and...

Photo of books featured in "what we're reading" article

What We're Reading

Oct. 28, 2022

A quick look at the recent books from our faculty and community.

Centaurus High School students and Soraya Latiff

From fertile soil: co-creating a youth-led ethnic studies curriculum

Oct. 27, 2022

“you are not your roots. you are a flower grown from them.” – pavana reddy For most of my education as a first-generation immigrant, I grew familiar with not seeing myself represented and internalized that I was not worthy of being cared for. I remember my dialect losing its rhythm...

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