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Before starting his PhD at 麻豆免费版下载Boulder, Kyle Kopsick taught social studies at a high school in Quito, Ecuador for roughly five years. This experience greatly impacted his life and guided him to further his learning by joining the doctoral program in educational foundations, policy and practice. Kopsick has received the 麻豆免费版下载Boulder School of Education鈥檚 2026 Outstanding Dissertation award.
From a fisheries biologist turned rural middle school science teacher to today a doctoral graduate and teacher educator, Loraine Glidewell鈥檚 journey seems to be as winding as a remote river in Colorado鈥檚 beautiful backcountry. But
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Two doctoral candidates, Jackquelin 鈥淛ackie鈥 Bristol and Alexis 鈥淟ex鈥 Hunter, have been selected for National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships, one of the most prestigious honors for emerging education scholars. Bristol explores how teachers' access to affordable housing intersects with race, space and public education. Hunter investigates how youth of color in community organizing spaces view healing as intimately connected to social justice.
When Marisa Mendoza-Maurer moved from Hawai鈥檌 to Colorado to begin her PhD, she didn鈥檛 come alone. She brought with her a husband, two young children and a decade's worth of classroom experience as a secondary English teacher. The leap, across an ocean and into a rigorous doctoral program, was nothing short of monumental.