Voices Magazine
This has been a particularly unexpected and challenging time in education and beyond. We asked our alumni teachers: What have you learned over the past year and will be carrying into the future?
Please join us in recognizing our faculty who retired recently and learning more about their next steps.What are you excited about in retirement?Julie Andrew, Teach master teacher: “I’m excited to do new things. I will be attending the Colorado
Brief updates about what’s new in the School of Education Inaugural cohort of BA graduates working on the forefront of social changeThe Boulder School of Education conferred its first Bachelor of Arts degrees in and
Come dream with usThis new school year has been different from any other I (and I suspect most of us) have experienced. Although the school year always signals new beginnings, this year there was a heightened sense of beginning
Lianna Nixon’s lens on the natural world is changing education and environmental activism Lianna Nixon is an environmental photographer and activist, but on
Toni Christiansen bursts through barriers and advances U.S. diplomacyToni Christiansen (Edu’70) enrolled at Boulder with two dreams: to become a teacher and an international diplomat.The impressive career that followed has been a dream come true
Stephanie Toliver celebrates Black women in science fiction and beyond Stephanie Toliver was an undergraduate studying English education in Tallahassee, Florida, when she discovered a book that changed her life.The
Jen stood in front of her class of ninth grade students at the beginning of our study and asked, “How many of you feel like you’re in charge of writing your own stories? The story of your life?”Students sat in small groups. A few hands went up, but
Amid a pandemic and beyond, educators reimagine the future of K–12 schoolsThere has been no such thing as a “normal” year of teaching for up-and-coming educator Diana Bustamante-Aguilar, and she sees that as a good thing.As a student teacher, she