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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.

Curriculum and Instruction Professor Kendall King (Second Languages and Cultures) was recently quoted in an article titled, "Dads Caring for Their Kids: It's Parenting, Not Babysitting," featured in The Atlantic Monthly.

This week, C&I's Cassie Scharber and Angel Pazurek co-presented the opening keynote for a professional development workshop with the Ronald M. Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning and Adult Basic Education (ABE) which is affiliated with the St. Paul Public Schools' Community Education Department.

Assistant Professor, J. B. Mayo, Jr. (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) has been selected by the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action as a recipient of the Lillian Williams Award for 2012.

American RadioWorks highlights C&I's Angel Pazurek in an accompanying feature for the documentary "Keyboard College," "Social Media in the Classroom."

The Minnesota Daily interviewed Curriculum and Instruction's J.B. Mayo, Jr. for an article on the UMN's Faculty of Color writing group.

C&I Associate Professor Martha Bigelow was invited by alumna Emilena Rodriguez (M.Ed.) to work with English teachers at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica in August.