Faculty Directory
Dane Stickney PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
- Affiliate Faculty, Learning Design & Technology
- Extended Studies
- ASPIRE to Teach
DANE STICKNEY worked as a newspaper reporter in Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa for over a decade before becoming a sixth- 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 achieving the district’s top scores in writing assessments. After five years in the classroom, Dane moved to the University of Colorado Denver, where he is a clinical assistant professor of education supporting teacher development through the ASPIRE to Teach program, the Curriculum and Instruction master’s track, and student voice and leadership initiatives at local school districts and organizations. He has been a member of the Transformative Student Voice research collective for a decade and chairs the Action Research Network of the Americas’ (ARNA) Youth Participatory Action Research subgroup. His work earned him the 2022 CU Denver campus-wide Service and Leadership award (IRC), ARNA’s Eduardo Flores leadership award in 2024, and the School of Education and Human Development research award (IRC). Dane earned his PhD in 2022; his dissertation focused on ideas of student voice, teacher agency, and sociopolitical development. He is lead author of Transformative Student Voice for Teachers: A Guide to Classroom Action published by Harvard Education Press in 2025.
Areas of Expertise
- Student voice
- sociopolitical development
- curriculum design
- policy development
- youth participatory action research
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- 2022, PhD, University of Colorado Denver, critical studies in education
- 2012, MA, University of Colorado Denver, curriculum and instruction
- 2002, BA, University of Nebraska Lincoln, English
- 2002, BJ, University of Nebraska Lincoln, news-editorial
Resumes/CV:
Awards
- 2025 School of Education and Human Development Excellence in Research Award
- 2024 Action Research Network of the Americas Eduardo Flores Leadership Award
- 2022 CU-Denver campus-wide Excellence in Leadership and Service Award
- 2022 School of Education and Human Development Excellence in Leadership and Service Award (non-tenure)
- 2022 Action Research Network of the Americas Promising Action Researcher Award
Affiliations
- 2017-present American Educational Research Association
- 2019-present Action Research Network of the Americas
- 2020-present Colorado Council for the Social Studies
- 2020-present Collaborative Action Research Network
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