DJEC is a community education journal focused on topics of education in the greater Denver area. By engaging in community discourse, and connecting this content to scholarship and policy, DJEC hopes to contribute to local education thinking by offering a balanced and well-informed perspective.
Learning about “American” ideologies, values, and identities in public schools Scholar perspective By | Jarrod Hanson, PhD The connection between the educational system in the US and the idea of being or becoming an “American” is complex, and that is illustrated by Read more…
Learning about “American” ideologies, values, and identities in public schools Student perspective By | Lameese Makkawi When thinking about what it means to be an American, I have to be honest and say that I don’t think of the title fondly. Growing Read more…
Learning about “American” ideologies, values, and identities in public schools Personal perspective By | Ryan Chambers The ideals of what it means to be an American in experience, versus the idea of it, have always been conflicting for me. As the main Read more…
Learning about “American” ideologies, values, and identities in public schools Editorial perspective By | Spencer Childress, EdD Those with red and blue affiliations, or those with agendas based in finance and power, make declarations all too often about what it means to Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Antwan Jefferson, PhD Welcome to our first issue of 2021. Post-riots at the US Capitol Post-2020 election Post and During the announced departures of several local school district leaders During a reality-altering global pandemic that continues to hit closer and closer to home for Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Public Education’s Opportunity To Shift Course By | Allan Tellis, Chief Writer, Denver Traditional educational dynamics have had to be reimagined during the nation’s struggle with COVID-19. The common educational experience has been profoundly altered by Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Educator Perspective By | Shakira D. Abney-Wisdom During 2020, we were faced with the reality of two pandemics: COVID-19 and systemic racism. Both have more severe impacts on historically and persistently marginalized groups, namely people of color, independent of level of education or Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Scholar Perspective By | Danielle Walker Planting the Seeds of Liberation The global COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the very roots of the US educational system. US education at its roots is traditional, rigid, and quite frankly designed for White students. Therefore, this system has Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Student Perspective By | Valantina Zeremariam Treat Us Like the Future, Not the Burden. Let’s Get Real. In 2003, the aftermath of the bloodshed of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war, my parents decide to immigrate to the United States, “The Land of Opportunity.’’ My mother especially Read more…
Setting new priorities for public education Personal Perspective By | Darlene Sampson, PhD, LCSW If Not Now … When? Reimagine, reclaim, restore, reform, and transform are some of the words regarding the institution of education I have incorporated into my lexicon over the past 20 years. Multiple missteps, lack of Read more…
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