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Bilinguals United for Education and New Opportunities (BUENO)
Located in the School of Education at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, Boulder, The BUENO Center is recognized nationally for its work with culturally and linguistically diverse students and their teachers.
Through a comprehensive range of research, training, and service projects, the BUENO Center strongly promotes quality education with an emphasis on cultural pluralism. The Center is deeply committed to facilitating equal educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse learners as well as students with special needs.The BUENO Center has led a range of educational programs that promote quality education for over 40 years. Learn more about the programs we currently support, partner with, or lead via the links below.
BUENO Center Partner Programs
This program, located in the Fort Lupton, La Junta, Fort Morgan and Alamosa communities, offers migrant and seasonal farm workers an opportunity to earn a General Education Diploma (GED). Contact: Ernesto Sanchez, Director
The College Assistance Migrant Program, CAMP, is a scholarship program that recruits students with migrant, agricultural backgrounds. In collaboration with Aims Community College, BUENO-CAMP is committed to helping college freshmen in their pursuit of higher education. Contact: Dr. Robert Garcia, Director
The Latino History Project was founded in 2013 to help correct the limited presence of local Latino history and culture in most Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ histories and school curriculums. The project focused initially on Boulder County but in 2017 began expanding to other parts of the state. It helps local communities gather information about their own people of color, makes the material gathered readily available in convenient online formats and works with PK-12 teachers on how to use the information in their classrooms. Contact: Jason Romero, Director
E3 (Equity, Engagement & Advocacy)
Equity, Engagement & Advocacy (E3) is a National Professional Development (NPD) funded project offered by the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) at the U.S. Department of Education. In partnership with several rural school districts, teachers graduating from this project will earn a Master of Arts degree in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity (EECD) and a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Endorsement and a Special Education Generalist (SEG) Endorsement. Contact: Estella Almanza, Director
Literacy Squared is a research-based and research-tested comprehensive biliteracy model that uses holistic frameworks to organize instruction for Spanish language literacy, English language literacy and explicit cross language connections. Contact: Dr. Sue Hopewell
The School of Education's BA in Elementary Education, with an endorsement in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, aims to prepare anti-racist, public school elementary teachers. Our faculty recognizes that U.S. schools have a long and troubled history of perpetuating racial and other forms of inequality and injustice — advantaging certain students, while disadvantaging others. Thus, our program is designed to facilitate the preparation of reflective, ethical and responsive teachers who are committed to making the world more equitable and just, through their work in public schools and the communities they serve.
You will explore school culture, language policies, and the social and political context of schooling. We are devoted to the critical examination of theory, practice, and policy in two major areas of emphasis: the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students and the education of exceptional children. We stress analysis, evaluation, and implementation of educational programs for students who represent diverse learning needs. Explore first and second language acquisition theory, program development for bilingual and English as a second language, and culturally appropriate methodologies.​
The program emphasis in Equity, Bilingualism & Biliteracy is specifically geared toward preparing researchers and leadership personnel in the field of bilingual multicultural education.​