Education & Outreach
- 91¸£ÀûÉç’s School of Education is helping rural school districts attract and retain new teachers by partnering with schools and organizations dedicated to the same goals.
- CU Museum of Natural History educator Jim Hakala is on a mission to bring fossils and ancient artifacts to every Colorado fourth grader, especially those with limited access to educational resources.
- One Program for Writing and Rhetoric class has spent the semester working with Foothills United Way to help prepare for 91¸£ÀûÉç’s next environmental disaster.
- A collaboration between the School of Education and Northeast Colorado Board of Cooperative Educational Services has received a grant to help create a more sustainable teacher force in Northeast Colorado.
- Colorado leaders met with 91¸£ÀûÉç researchers recently to discuss ways to use the arts to address social and economic issues across the state.
- Colorado high school students interested in becoming teachers and community leaders can earn guaranteed admissions to 91¸£ÀûÉç’s School of Education for the 2018–19 academic year.
- CU Engage is pleased to announce new resources to deepen and advance a research partnership with the Student Voice and Leadership program in Denver Public Schools.
- A new CIRES-led study has found that it's possible to improve spatial reasoning with practice.
- A STEM camp this summer, held at Casa de la Esperanza, a housing community and learning center for migrant workers and their families, gave K-12 students a crash course in robotics.
- In June, nine students from 91¸£ÀûÉç gave visitors to Mesa Verde National Park an education in yucca plants and other facets of Colorado ecology.