Best Should Teach Award Ceremony

[William Lindsay]

Hello,

See below for information about the Best Should Teach Award Ceremony. The wonderful Julie Andrew, who is a past recipient, will be attending the ceremony and would love to connect with many of you!

Correction: Our previous email did not have the full date listed. The 2023 Best Should Teach Lecture and Awards Ceremony is on Monday, May 1 at 6 p.m. Free and no registration required.

Best Should Teach Awards & Lecture
Monday, May 1, 6 p.m.
UMC, Glenn Miller Ballroom
Free and open to the public

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CU Boulder will celebrate excellence in education by recognizing K-12 teachers from our partner school districts, graduate student instructors, and six faculty members, including our own Melissa Braaten.

In addition, the event will feature Alyssa Hadley Dunn, associate professor at University of Connecticut who will deliver her keynote on responding to violence in schools, “What to do when you don’t know what to do: Teaching for equity and justice on days after.”

Our keynote lecture

"What to do when you don’t know what to do: Teaching for equity and justice on days after."

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Alyssa Hadley Dunn is the Director of Teacher Education for the Neag School of Education and an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. A former high school English teacher, Dunn now focuses her teaching, research, and service on urban education for social and racial justice. She studies how to best prepare and support teachers to work in urban schools and how to teach for justice and equity amidst school policies and reforms that negatively impact teachers’ working conditions and students’ learning conditions. 
 

2022 Best Should Teach Gold Award Recipients

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• Sarah Avila, Economics
• Melissa Braaten, School of Education
• Laurie Gries, Media, Communication and Information
• Nii Armah Sowah, Theatre & Dance
• Ross Taylor, Journalism
• Bethany Wilcox, Physics
• Emily Fiebig, Northridge Elementary, St. Vrain
• Tara Kawalec, STEM Launch K-8, Adams 12
• Vera Moreno-Hamm, Columbine Elementary School, Boulder Valley

The Best Should Teach Initiative celebrates excellence in teaching and academic leadership. Each year Best Should Teach Gold and Silver Awards are presented to college and university faculty and public school teachers. Lindley and Marguerite Stiles, along with Ira and Ineva Baldwin established the initiative in 1996 to promulgate the message that “The Best Should Teach.” The Best Should Teach event and awards are co-funded by the Ira and Ineva Baldwin Fund in the CU Foundation and Brian Good's private Best Should Teach Fund, with additional support from the Center for Teaching & Learning, the School of Education, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

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