Educational Leadership & Organizational Learning

The challenges facing today's schools demand more than a new generation of educational leaders. They demand a renewed vision of educational leadership itself.

In a place like New Mexico, where history is not distant, but lived, questions about the past are never purely academic. They shape how communities understand identity, language, land, and the future. From ongoing conversations about cultural...

Math can become a quiet kind of gatekeeper long before students ever realize it. Sometimes it arrives as a knot in the stomach before a test. Sometimes it sounds like, “I’m just not a math person.” And sometimes it takes hold in the very people who will...

For many young readers, the challenge is not simply learning how to decode words on a page. It is learning how to see themselves in what they read, how to connect literacy to the language of home and community, and how to experience reading as something...

Educators are a special group of people. Their desire, willingness and determination to go the extra mile to improve education is nothing short of heroic—especially in New Mexico, where the educational challenges are plenty. Viola “Vi” Florez (Tighe)...

Fourteen faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards.  The 11 funded projects include a study of carbon storage in soils along the middle Rio Grande floodplain, an investigation into rural New...

UNM’s College of Education & Human Sciences (COEHS) is celebrating an extra special graduating class this May.  The Educational Leadership Program 2024 spring cohort is one of the largest educational leadership groups in the country, with 25...

One University of New Mexico educator is taking on a bold, new national role in the teaching world. Cheryl Torrez, chair of the Department of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership and Policy in UNM’s College of Education & Human Sciences (COEHS) has...

It’s an old equation with a new solution. Now, new funding, plus a new UNM team is going to equal more STEM educators in New Mexico.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded a UNM cross-campus collaboration a $1.49 million grant. That...

There is just one semester left to go for a critical program within UNM’s College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS).  Creating Responsive Educational Avenues for Training Environments in Early Childhood (CREATE EC) is a new interdisciplinary...