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Maria del Carmen Salazar, PhD

Professor Curriculum & Instruction & Teacher Education 

Dr. María del Carmen Salazar is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction & Teacher Education in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. Dr. Salazar has authored 35 publications and given 155 scholarly national and international presentations on a humanizing pedagogy, equitable teaching and teacher evaluation, and college access and success for Latinx youth. She is the author of Teacher Evaluation as Culture: A Framework for Equitable and Excellent Teaching, published by Routledge Press with series editor Professor Emerita Sonia Nieto. She is the lead author on a briefing to the U.S. Congress related to the state of the Latinx community in the U.S. In 2018, she was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Innovations in Research on Equity and Social Justice in Teacher Education Award. Dr. Salazar’s service includes local, national, and international contributions. She served on the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC), a national collaborative to revise model content standards and develop learning progressions for teacher licensure, assessment, and development. She served on the Board of Directors of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). She is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Teacher Education. She is proud of her accomplishments as a first-generation college student and Mexican immigrant. 

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My own experiences in school were so dehumanizing, I wanted to make sure that I was in a professions where I could make a difference, to humanize the experiences of our children. 

Dr. Maria del Carmen Salazar

Projects & Publications

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One Tribe Family Freedom School

An enrichment program offered online free of cost two Saturdays a month youth ages 3 to 18.

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Teacher Evaluation as Cultural Practice

A Framework for Equity and Excellence

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NMU Humanising Pedagogy Webinar with Prof Maria Salazar

Dr. Maria speaks in this webinar.

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The InTASC Teaching Standards: Re-Profes-sionalizing Teaching

Keynote from the second general session of the 2012 School Improvement Innovation Summit held in Salt Lake City

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Governing Principals | Ensuring High-Quality Learning Through Teacher Evaluation Systems

A discussion with state leaders about how they have approached educator evaluation systems. 

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Overcoming Racial Bias in Teacher Evaluation: Walk It, Like You Talk It

Today, our nation is focused on inequities in our education and justice systems.

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Our Voices Our Schools

OVOS envisions an educational system and cultural environment that results in connected communities, fair economy, racial justice and human rights for all people.

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Community voice the centerpiece in new research on DPS equity, quality

The PEACE Collective and RootED Denver have teamed up with Drs. Brenda Allen, Sharon Bailey, Antwan Jefferson, Janiece Mackey, Jesús Rodríguez and Maria Salazar to conduct the community research

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