McBride Teacher-Scholar Award
The McBride Teacher-Scholar Award honors Bill McBride, who taught for 45 years in Colorado schools, including Manzanola, Poudre and Fort Collins High Schools, and Colorado State University.
Established when Bill McBride retired in 1998, the endowment continues his legacy of ensuring quality English Language Arts teachers for secondary schools.
Thanks to the generous support of the McBride Endowment, the CSU English Education program is able to provide awards to area teachers every year.
The recipient(s) of the award shall be participating in classes, workshops, the CSU Writing Project, or other offerings by the Department of English at Colorado State University. Recipient(s) must meet the selectivity requirements of the respective professional development activity.
Preference shall be given to a participant who is a teacher of English language arts in a public school. Current teachers of other subjects and prospective teachers of English language arts who have only student teaching left to complete may also apply. Applicants who self-identify as members of marginalized populations are strongly encouraged to apply.
The award covers tuition for one 3-credit, graduate-level English course at CSU. Candidates can reapply for future semesters. The application deadline is September 9, 2026.
We offer graduate-level English courses in the late afternoons (starting at 4pm or later) once per week.
Fall 2026
E503 Qualitative Research Methods (Investigating Classroom Literacies)
This course prepares those interested in working in classrooms to participate in teacher action research and to (continue to) enter into professional conversations to advance educational change. Students in the course will have the opportunity to engage in their own research interests as they move toward the goals of the course. Students will develop a classroom literacy topic they are interested in exploring and work through a research cycle to investigate that topic. Students will hear from a variety of researchers in the field and also explore their own identities and positionalities and how they come into their research interests and processes. The class is open to students in all programs.
Spring 2027
E632 Professional Concerns: Youth Participatory Action Research
This course explores the study of youth participatory action research, methods, and the importance of community. We will examine the ways in which research can engage students and communities alongside sociopolitical and sociocultural practices of civic engagement and literacy practices. Students will learn strategies they can use to support and empower young people as activists, writers, and civically engaged community members. The class is open to students in all programs.
McBride Teacher-Scholar Award Application
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