Voices Magazine

  • 3 Polaroid style photos of Ruth Cline
    Teachers know their students and how to be helpful for them, and they shouldn鈥檛 depend on the school board or other agencies to tell them what to teach.鈥 Ruth Cline has always had a deep
  • Photo of Noreen Naseem Rodr铆guez standing infront of a wall mural painting.
    Noreen Naseem Rodr铆guez in front of a Denver mural by local artist Casey Kawaguchi and Nepali artist Imagine876, who are both known for their street art and Asian influences When Noreen Naseem Rodr铆guez was a fourth
  • Photo of Borderless Roots group
    鈥淢y soul is from Chile,鈥 the fifth grader explained. Born in the United States, she describes herself as 鈥渒ind of鈥 American and Chilean and gravitates toward her Chilean roots.Her description illustrates the complexities of 鈥渉ome鈥 for transnational
  • Photo of books featured in "what we're reading" article
    A quick look at the recent books from our faculty and community.
  • Centaurus High School students and Soraya Latiff
    鈥測ou are not your roots. you are a flower grown from them.鈥 鈥 pavana reddyFor most of my education as a first-generation immigrant, I grew familiar with not seeing myself represented and internalized that I was not worthy of
  • Image of Barbara Jean standing next to sports car coupe
    It was a classic case of 鈥渨ho鈥檚 that girl?鈥滱l Grimm impatiently waited for Barbara Jean to end her phone call when he first spotted her at a party in 1963. Transfixed, he had to meet her. Even though that call had
  • Image of Photo Collage (Digital)
    Photo Collage by: Katie Dokson Mexican Americans have been challenging school segregation for over a century.鈥 When I began my doctoral program in the early 1980s, I was interested in history,
  • Photograph of Cassidy Ktsanes holding the book "All About Love"
    It's the start of the school year and the anticipation has gripped new high school English language arts teacher Cassidy Ktsanes.鈥淚鈥檓 really excited,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 just get nervous that I鈥檓 not going to be a good teacher, but I
  • Photo of Luz-Elena Sanchez
    When 11-year-old Luz Elena Sanchez arrived in Yuma, Colorado, with her family from Mexico, she found herself lost among her English-speaking classmates. She had difficulty understanding her homework, and she got into trouble for speaking Spanish in
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