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Dane Stickney PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
- Affiliate Faculty, Learning Design & Technology
- Extended Studies
Email Address:dane.stickney@ucdenver.edu
After a decade as a newspaper reporter in Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa, Dane became a 6th grade writing teacher at a middle school on Denver's Northside. He and his students tackled social justice topics including undocumented student access to higher education, gentrification, and school-related gun protections while also scoring in the top 3 in Denver Public Schools state testing scores in writing growth. After five years in the classroom, Dane moved to CU-Denver where he is a senior instructor supporting teacher development through the ASPIRE to Teach program, the Curriculum & Instruction master's track, and the Student Voice and Leadership initiative through Denver Public Schools. Dane is also a PhD student exploring the ideas of student voice, teacher agency, and sociopolitical development.
Areas of Expertise
- Student voice
- Critical pedagogy
- Problem-based pedagogy
- Sociopolitical development
- Teacher agency
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- PhD Education and Human Development with the Urban Ecologies concentration
- Master's of Curriculum & Instruction, CU-Denver, 2012
- Bachelor's of Journalism in News-Editorial and Bachelor's of Arts in English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002
- Professional Teacher License, K-12 ELA, 2010-present
- Linguistically Diverse Educator certification, 2012-present
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Awards
- Jared Polis Foundation Teacher Recognition Award: Received from the U.S. representative one of 10 statewide teacher grants for outstanding classroom contribution and dedication; included a $1,000 personal award and $1,500 classroom award, used for purchasing classroom technology (2013)
Faculty by Program
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- ASPIRE to Teach
- Counseling
- Couple & Family Therapy
- Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education
- Early Childhood Education
- Human Development and Family Relations
- Leadership for Educational Organizations
- Learning Design & Technology
- Learning, Developmental & Family Sciences
- Literacy Education
- Research & Evaluation Methods
- School Psychology
- Special Education
- STEM Education
- Teaching