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    • Pathways2Teaching Makes Strides to Diversify, Grow-Your-Own Teachers

      Pathways2Teaching Makes Strides to Diversify, Grow-Your-Own Teachers
      Jan 26 2022
      Joselyne Garcia-Moreno

      The percentage of K-12 students of color has raised dramatically in Colorado in the past few years, making up near 50% of our school population. Unfortunately, the teacher population has not kept up. For nearly 11 years, the University of Colorado Denver’s Pathways2Teaching program has aimed to balance that teacher-to-student ratio. Today, on CU on the Air, we’re talking with Joselyne Garcia-Moreno, a graduate of the Pathways2Teaching program, and Margarita Bianco, associate professor of education and the program’s founder.

        • Margarita discusses the origins of Pathways2Teaching and gives an overview of the program.
        • Joselyne discusses her background, high school and how she learned about the program.
        • Joselyne was hired as a paraprofessional before even finishing high school.
        • Margarita discusses the external partners of the program and their role.
        • Joselyne talks about the support and teachers who helped her on her path.
        • Margarita and Joselyne discuss how the program benefits students and ultimately our state.
        • Joselyne is now working on her master’s degree and hopes to teach at the high school where it all began.
        • Margarita, who was interviewed on the second episode of CU on the Air in 2017, discusses how the program has grown in the past nearly five years.
      Dr. Margarita Bianco
      • Several institutions across the country have adopted the model of grow-your-own teachers.
      • Pathways2Teaching has served about 1,700 students over the years.
      • Students in the program continue to research and solve challenges within their communities as part of the program. Margarita offers some spectacular success stories.
      • Margarita says, yes, progress is moving slowly, but at least there is movement. Graduates and students such as Joselyne make the struggle worthwhile.
      • As a graduate of the program, Joselyne discusses steps that can be taken or further support and encourage students to become involved and be successful.
      • Joselyne and Margarita close their eyes and look at education in K-12 schools, and share with us their vision.
      • We at CU on the Air and our listeners will continue to support that vision.

      Resources

      • Pathways2Teaching Scholarship Fund
      • Pathways2Teaching
      • CU on the Air: Margarita Bianco
      • NBC News: Schools need teachers of color
      • 9News: Grow your own teachers program
      • CU Denver
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      27 min
    • Stepping Back in Time to the Virtual Immersive Global Middle Ages

      Stepping Back in Time to the Virtual Immersive Global Middle Ages
      Jan 11 2022
      Roger Martinez, associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, is using immersive virtual reality tools to recreate worlds that no longer exist. The Immersive Global Middle Ages project, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, will transport viewers back in time to experience the fifth through 15th centuries. Five-hundred to 1500 is generally what is considered the European Middle Ages. It encapsulates the space between what was before and what is after.Fifteen-hundred hearkens the Early Modern Age, an outcome of the Renaissance, which is this point where new ideas are taking hold, new experimentations with culture and knowledge.Violence was prevalent during the Middle Ages because of the fracture of the old Roman world of the legal systems, and the application of law.Middle Ages period reflects a local life in that your community is where you live, and to leave the city that you live in, or the region you live in invites banditry that you walk out of your space and you’re no longer protected.Revisiting the Middle Ages in today’s society, we’re undergoing a repaganization of global society, meaning there’s less Christianization in the world and more acceptance of different dynamics.Martinez’s work on the Immersive Middle Ages project will cover two years, with the first virtual exploration becoming available this summer. The Synagogue of Plasencia Virtual Environment (click to enlarge) In many respects, we already have been experiencing immersive technology for 100 years, it’s called the movies.How virtual technology works and the aim of taking viewers/visitors back to the Middle Ages — adding a new kind of way of experiencing that completeness of another world.Broadening the view to understand what was happening across the globe during the Global Middle Ages. Other civilizations that were thriving, and deeply involved with trade.Seeking out academics around the world that are doing research on different civilizations and asking them to join for the next two years to talk about their research, to from the global perspective.The technology being used that will help take a step back to the Middle Ages is SketchUp Pro is a software made by Trimble.Coming is this summer 2022, the first set of scholars, about 14 folks, will descend on Colorado Springs where they will start to showcase the beginnings of their first models.Remember those super-cool dioramas behind glass in the museums? This virtual reality will be similar, except participants will be standing inside it.Participants will be able to stand alongside other people who are there at that time.Viewers will be able to download the content from sites such as Steam.The project is part of the NEH’s Global Middle Ages Institute collaboration. Collectively Martinez and his colleague Dr. Lynn Ramey at Vanderbilt University, a medievalist as well, benefited from this opportunity to create an institute around a more inclusive Global Middle Ages and technology.Also collaborating is alongside of them are scholars such as Geraldine Heng from the University of Texas at Austin.Martinez and his students have developed a model of a medieval city of Palencia, Spain, and are populating it with the synagogue, the cathedral, houses, different dioramas of different individuals.Meet Yosef Castano. Yosef, which is Joseph in the early 1400s, lived in the Jewish part of town and Christian knights lived in the same region. Yosef had an important job as a chainmail maker, and a plate armorer. This shows something completely new about the Middle Ages –coexistence and collaboration.Same with the Muslim wine-makers. Did they partake of their goods? We’ll never know.UCCS has a vibrant Master of History program; one of the largest ones in the region. Approximately 70 students work on a global master of arts throughout the world.How UCCS humanities graduates are combining the robustness of intellectual life and rigor of the humanities, which is about intensive investigation.Be sure to check the resources below to find ways to follow the progress of the UCCS Immersive Global Middle Ages project! Resources UCCS Immersive Global Middle AgesTwitter: https://twitter.com/immersive_GMANEH’s Global Middle Ages Institute collaborationNational Endowment for the HumanitiesUCCS Master of History programCU on the Air: Exploring and learning from coexistence in Medieval Spain, June 2018University of Colorado Colorado SpringsTechnology in use: SketchUp Pro by TrimbleSTEAM video game platform
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      34 min
    • CU Boulder PhD Grads Bolster Educational Opportunities at Fort Lewis College

      CU Boulder PhD Grads Bolster Educational Opportunities at Fort Lewis College
      Dec 28 2021
      A University of Colorado collaboration has crossed the Great Divide to advance educational opportunities some 350 miles into Southwest Colorado. CU Boulder and Fort Lewis College have established a partnership that leverages the strengths of both institutions, where Arts & Sciences PhD graduates teach undergraduate students for a year – or more – at Fort Lewis College. Hernández “Fort Lewis College is in the city of Durango, which is in the Southwestern part of the state of Colorado,” explains Theresa Hernández, associate dean for research in the College of Arts & Sciences at CU Boulder, who serves as director of the partnership. “In terms of history, Fort Lewis College is well known for its strengths in teaching, especially the way in which it has small class sizes.” The program targets the needs of each individual student and where they are in their educational journey, which benefits the FLC students as well as the fellows sent there who are learning to teach and learning from their students. “Fort Lewis is designated as one of the six Native American serving non-tribal colleges. And because of that, it provides tuition-free education for Native Americans who qualified for this,” Hernández said. “It also awards more Native American students degrees than any other four year baccalaureate granting institution in the nation.” Fort Lewis graduates at about 26% of all degrees awarded to Native American students and is deeply invested in addressing its early history as a boarding school. Recently, the college held a ceremony that included tribal elders, campus leaders and Native American students in which misleading images and narratives were removed from the clock tower as part of a larger ritual. The University of Colorado is proud of the connection to this historic college, especially during this time of healing. Although the program is officially in its second year, it has seeds reaching back to about 2019 when Dean James White, arts and sciences, and Associate Dean Hernández met with Fort Lewis College faculty and leadership. Cole Callie Cole is an associate professor of chemistry at Fort Lewis College, a CU Boulder alumna, and a strong advocate for the partnership. “It started when I was a student at CU Boulder back from 2010 to 2015, and my PhD mentor at CU Boulder, Dr. Veronica Bierbaum, helped build the foundation for all of the skills that I still use today in education and in research,” Cole said. “And so, because I had such a good training at CU Boulder, I was able to get a position as a faculty member at Fort Lewis College in 2015.” Cole realized quickly that this pipeline from CU Boulder to Fort Lewis was already taking shape. “There were CU alum all over the place here at Fort Lewis. And we started to put our heads together and just chat about like, what, what can we do to help our students learn more about awesome graduate programs like those at CU Boulder? What can we do to break down those boundaries and get them to start applying,” Cole said. “And then it was Dr. Theresa Hernández at CU who reached out to me.” They clicked and the University of Colorado and Fort Lewis College Partnership was born. “The way the program was initially developed is, we thought of a one-year in residence program, and that’s basically how we built the budget model, but now we’re refining it,” Hernández said. “We’re engaged in additional fundraising for this program, we are keeping that in mind so that the teaching fellows have the possibility of a second year of funding from CU Boulder.” Cole said she and other CU alumni knew they wanted to bring a more organized connection between the two institutions. “When I first joined in 2015, it was sort of free-flowing. A lot of us were CU alum, so a lot of the faculty here were naturally connecting and collaborating with CU, but we didn’t really necessarily have a lot of programs in place that were funded,” she said. “Now we have the CU postdoc program, which is, I think, soon going to become a two-year-long postdoc, which is fantastic. That allows like me to work with CU postdocs for a whole two-year period, while they’re doing undergraduate teaching and research.” As a CU Boulder faculty member, Hernández’s research focuses on improving the lives of individuals affected by traumatic brain injury, stroke and stress, including veterans, student-athletes, and individuals with post-traumatic disorder. This desire to help others motivates her in her role as program director. “I think of myself as the motor, I keep the program running and am responsible for requests for nominations, the interface between Fort Lewis College, both their faculty and leadership, and then CU Boulder arts and sciences, faculty and chairs,” she said. “I have done a lot of collaborations across my career. And I want to really emphasize the truly collaborative, interactive engaging role that Fort Lewis College plays in ...
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      31 min
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