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Cassandra Scharber and Cynthia Lewis received a $599,905, three-year grant from the William T. Grant Foundation. The study, Bright Stars: Technology-Mediated Settings for Urban Youth as Pathways for Engaged Learning, examines the complex features of schools, libraries, and community-based urban settings that successfully engage students by positioning youth as knowledge producers, meaning-makers, and creators of their […]

Lesa Covington Clarkson, associate professor of mathematics education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, runs Prepare2Nspire, a near-peer tutoring program to motivate youth in the Twin Cities to love math like she does. Only in its second year, Prepare2Nspire has helped 65 percent of participating elevent-grade students increase their math scores by more than […]

This week, two Curriculum and Instruction graduates, Joe Cosette and Roshan Anglin were awarded the prestigious Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) 2014 Teaching Fellowship. The five-year fellowship is awarded to early-career STEM teachers who demonstrate the potential to develop the content knowledge needed for teaching, exemplary teaching practices, and the qualities of a teacher leader.

This week, Timothy Lensmire, Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction discusses his paper, "White Men's Racial Others," on The Voice, a video series produced for the Teachers College Record. As an accompaniment to the video, Lensmire is also participating in an online discussion where he will write and respond to comments to the video.

Curriculum and Instruction graduate Thomas Rademacher has been named 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year. Rademacher teaches English at the Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resources (FAIR) School in Minneapolis and Crystal.

This year, faculty in the Second Languages and Cultures Education program area in C&I have been called upon for their expertise in several bills going forward to reform education practices for English Language Learners (ELL). MPR reports on a bill moving through the legislature.

Curriculum and Instruction Professor and Department Chair, Nina Asher, is a recipient of a 2014-15 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award (Research). “As a U.S.-based scholar, I’ve been writing about postcolonialism, and more recently globalization, consumerism and corporatization. This study, while drawing on those discourses, will be in the context of India,” says Asher. “I want to talk with in-service teachers who are also enrolled in a master’s program and also their faculty about how they are experiencing globalization and privatization in relation to education. What are their thoughts, experiences and analyses? What is their understanding of the implications?”

On Thursday, November 21, the Learning Technologies Media Lab (LTML) and Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) co-hosted a discussion around tpt's program, Is School Enough?, which is the second in a series of programs about youth, digital media, and education. Is School Enough? focuses on how project-based learning and digital tools can help inform and transform education.

This month, C&I Faculty in Second Languages and Cultures have been tapped for their expertise in English language learning in Minnesota Public Schools. Last week, the Star Tribune ran the story, "Minnesota students learning English face an uphill battle, but innovations are helping."

Earlier this month, Curriculum and Instruction Assistant Professor Cassie Scharber and Angel Pazurek presented the keynote at the St. Paul Community Literacy Consortium's (SPCLC) annual fall meeting for literacy professionals working in Adult Basic Education programs.