Students from UEE class

Acclaimed Scholar Visits UEE Class

In February, acclaimed educational scholar Dr. Christine Sleeter was a guest speaker in the Urban Environmental Education Program’s “Multicultural Environmental Education” course. Running Grass, the course instructor, invited Dr. Sleeter…

Johnny Horton

Associate Faculty Johnny Horton’s published a profound article “A Seattle professor on helping veterans find home in the humanities” in Crosscut about the classes he teaches to combat Veterans on classical literature…

Cynthia Thomashow

Dr. Cynthia Thomashow contributed a chapter to the recently published book “Towards Critical Environmental Education,” which provides a strong theoretical background to a rising field that is rapidly gaining in…

Kate Sipe ’02

What if classrooms were envisioned as a small democracy? What if our students practiced democracy in their classroom year after year? Further, what if they knew they deserved it? Kate Sipe,…

Andrew Parsons ’19

Andrew Parsons ’19 (Seattle, MA) received the Teacher of the Year award at Park Orchard Elementary School in the Kent School District for the 2019-2020 school year.

Nichole Klocksiem ’18

Nichole Klocksiem ’18 (Seattle, MA) organized the panel Queer and Geeky Educators Q&A for GeekGirlCon, an event that empowers girls to pursue their “geeky” passions, whatever they might be.

Rasheena Fountain ’17

Rasheena Fountain ’17 (Seattle, MA) was featured in the KBCS interview “More Than One Kind of Nature,” which discussed what shapes our view of the environment and our relationship with…

Tiffany Adams ’17

Tiffany Adams ’17 (Seattle, MEd) was featured in a Yes! Magazine article, “Rare Birder Sightings: Bird Watching is Booming, Yet Black Birders are as Rare as a Bird Exists.”