AACTE Lunch & Learn: University of Northern Colorado’s Award-Winning Center for Urban Education
AACTE Lunch & Learns return on Wednesday, March 20 from 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. ET with guests from the University of Northern Colorado’s (UNC) Award-Winning Center for Urban Education.
UNC is the inaugural recipient of the AACTE 2024 Increasing Educator Diversity: Promising Practice Award. Overseen by AACTE’s Programmatic Advisory Committee on Educator Diversity, this award, recognizes a promising practice from a school, college, or department of education demonstrating outcomes and advocacy related to various activities, practices, programs, pedagogies, systems, and/or policies that lead to or is likely to lead to, an increase in educator diversity.
Director of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) Rosanne Fulton and Assistant Director Joanna Ross will speak on the Center’s work in preparing teachers from traditionally underrepresented communities. Since 2000, the CUE has focused on preparing teachers who are culturally, racially, and linguistically responsive to build a workforce that mirrors the demographics of the learners in Denver. With over 70% of its teacher candidates being individuals of color, the center equips educators to make a meaningful impact in diverse urban settings.
This Lunch & Learn opportunity is being hosted during Women’s History Month, an annual observance to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. “As women leaders at the Center for Urban Education, we reduce barriers for teacher candidates and allow them to obtain their teaching degree in our productive and service-minded program,” Fulton said of the CUE.
For more information, and to register for this AACTE members-only event, please visit the webpage.
Save the date for AACTE Best Practice and Achievement Awards Call for Nominations, June 10 -September 16, 2024.
Tags: Awards, diversity, equity, events
