Institute for Urban Education

2011

Janita Butler was named one of Missouri’s Outstanding Beginning Teachers by the Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE). 4/27/11.

Janita is a first-grade teacher at Dobbs Elementary School. Janita began at the Hickman Mills C-1 School District following graduation from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She was one of eight to graduate as the first class of the university’s groundbreaking Institute for Urban Education. The IUE program prepares teachers for success in urban classrooms by introducing issues of social justice and multicultural learning styles. IUE students receive scholarships and, in return, commit to teach in a Kansas City area urban district following graduate.

The IUE is proud of Janita Butler’s accomplishments in the classroom and wish her and other IUE graduates the best as they strive to make a positive impact in the urban core.

2009

2009 IUE Graduates Contracts have been signed and the students are ready to teach. Full story>>

2008

Cerner Corporation partners with IUE for teacher preparation UMKC’s Institute for Urban Education (IUE) will receive 30 laptop computers from the Kansas City-based Cerner Corporation. Full story>> UNews three part series on the IUE Part one: The Institute for Urban Education>> Part two: The students in the IUE>> Part three: The School of Education>> IUE highlighted in “Stand for the Best” by Thomas M. Bloch Full story>>

2007

Power of high expectations UMKC Institute for Urban Education commits to improving schools in the core. Full story>>

2006

Lotan affirms program to recruit inner city kids to teach IUE officials hope they are on to something different by recruiting most of their students from inner city schools. Full story>>

2005

Institute for Urban Education: in a class of its own When you start with dedicated teachers, add cultural sensitivity and high expectations of students, then take away biased assumptions, what you get is success for urban children. Full story>>   IUE featured in Sprint Nextel Annual Report Full story page 6>>