Edurne (Nune) Artazcoz has been an ECE-3 Bilingual Special Education Teacher at Maxwell Elementary in Denver Public Schools since 2014. Nune’s students and their families live in Montbello, Denver far NorthEast, a diverse ethnic community often with low incomes and access to limited resources. She has experience teaching in other places such as Texas, Spain and Ireland always related to the ECE field. Yet she cannot imagine working in a different place than Montbello because these families are very nice people who are looking for a better future and have become her motivation to go to work every day. Nune loves to collaborate within her community and help as much as possible. Nune learns everyday from them and now sees the world through a different lens because of the knowledge she has gained.
Because students are her passion and she really advocates for them, Nune applied and was accepted into the 13th cohort of the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program. This opportunity has offered her avenues to broaden her limits and gain knowledge to support this community in a better way. Being on a working visa and being an immigrant herself helped her understand how lucky she was compared to the undocumented people and families she has met. Nune’s experience as an immigrant has also allowed her to have a different perspective than her American coworkers.Yet, her colleagues and students are also the most important reason that she is still here and she didn’t go back to Europe.
Nune earned a Master in Educational Sciences (Pedagogy) at the University of Navarre (Spain). She started working as a Special Education Teacher (Moderate/Severe) and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education. After that, she earned a Bachelor’s in teaching foreign languages, both of them at the University of Salamanca (Spain). She took some Psychology classes but transferred them to complete a Master’s in Speech Therapy at the University of Malaga (Spain). When she moved to Denver, Nune took some classes to complete the English Language Acquisition certificate, and completed a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Because students are her passion and she really advocates for them, Nune applied and was accepted into the 13th cohort of the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program. This opportunity has offered her avenues to broaden her limits and gain knowledge to support this community in a better way. Being on a working visa and being an immigrant herself helped her understand how lucky she was compared to the undocumented people and families she has met. Nune’s experience as an immigrant has also allowed her to have a different perspective than her American coworkers.Yet, her colleagues and students are also the most important reason that she is still here and she didn’t go back to Europe.
Nune earned a Master in Educational Sciences (Pedagogy) at the University of Navarre (Spain). She started working as a Special Education Teacher (Moderate/Severe) and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education. After that, she earned a Bachelor’s in teaching foreign languages, both of them at the University of Salamanca (Spain). She took some Psychology classes but transferred them to complete a Master’s in Speech Therapy at the University of Malaga (Spain). When she moved to Denver, Nune took some classes to complete the English Language Acquisition certificate, and completed a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education at the University of Colorado in Denver.