Articles

C&I alumna Anna Bjork was recently named one of the International Literacy Association (ILA) 30 Under 30. ILA is a professional organization connecting research and practice to continuously improve the quality of literacy instruction across the globe. It publishes the list biannually to “celebrate the rising innovators, disruptors, and visionaries in the literacy field,” according […]

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction is now an affiliate with the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a non-governmental organization that supports arts education leaders through research, reports, and counsel. The partnership began when Lecturer Betsy Maloney Leaf in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction reached out to AEP for help finding research relating to arts […]

Senior Camarie Martin, a first-generation college student pursuing a B.S. in elementary education foundations, talks about how the justice-oriented coursework and student-teaching practicum has prepared her to teach in her own classroom. When did you realize you wanted to be a teacher? I’ve wanted to be a teacher since I was in third grade. I […]

U.S. Department of Education grant to support Asian American students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus will improve outcomes in academic achievement and post-college success. With $1.5 million in new funding announced this month from the U.S. Department of Education, University of Minnesota Professor Bic Ngo will expand programming aimed at improving academic […]

Professor Kendall King and doctoral student Maria Schwedhelm in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction recently published research in the journal Foreign Language Annals addressing the findings of a study spanning three years on the recent implementation of state seals and certificates of biliteracy in Minnesota schools.  Minnesota is one of 38 states to have […]

The Curriculum and Instruction (CI) Library, housed in 45 Peik Hall, recently launched a new website featuring an online searchable catalogue that effectively creates a digital space for patrons to search for texts that are not available in the UMN library system. The library is the only campus space that loans children’s and adolescent literature […]

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction is thrilled to launch the Racial Justice in Urban Schooling undergraduate minor, a program that examines the intersections of race, social class, language status, gender, or sexual orientation, and how those impact educational equity and social justice. The program supports undergraduates from any major to explore their interest in […]

Marek Oziewicz,  Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has received the first annual Award for Faculty Contribution to Honors Education from the University Honors Program (UHP). The award recognizes Oziewicz’s many and significant contributions  to Honors education at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. Those contributions include […]

Vichet Chhuon, C&I associate professor the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, wrote about the crucial need for more teachers of color and native american descent in Minnesota classrooms in an op ed in the Star Tribune, “Counterpoint: Teachers of color and American Indian descent in Minnesota are crucial.” Chhuon underscores the reasons that  a diverse […]

The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA’s) Bilingual Education Research SIG selects the top three dissertations in the field of bilingual education research each year as outstanding dissertations. Assistant professor in Curriculum & Instruction, Blanca Caldas was honored with the second place Outstanding Dissertation Award for her doctoral thesis, “Performing the Advocate Bilingual Teacher: Drama-based Interventions […]