Congratulations to these Department of Counseling and Higher Education alumni! Erika McCall, M.S.Ed. Adult and Higher Education, ’08, is the co-author of “All Good Just a Week Ago: Funny Dating Stories to Help you Keep your Head in the Game.” McCall is
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Greeting Huskie alumni. While traversing these uncertain and restless times, we have been moving forward with some exciting work in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. In spite of the many challenges we have all faced this past year, the licensure programs
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Congratulations to these Department of Curriculum and Instruction alumni! “God Came to My Garage Sale,” a book by Marni Hill Foderaro, Ed.D Curriculum and Supervision, ’97, has been named a finalist in the spiritual-inspirational category of American Book Fest’s 2020 Best Book
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Congratulations to these Department of Special and Early Education alumni! Kevin Baldus, M.S.Ed. Special Education, ’05, has been named interim Special Education director at Riverside-Brookfield High School, where he is also an instructional coach. Baldus began his career as a teacher at
Read moreCollege of Ed counts four alumni, one student among Golden Apple finalists
Five of the finalists for the prestigious 2021 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching and for Excellence in Leadership claim the NIU College of Education in their pedigrees. NIU alumni Maddi Bodine, Anne McNamara and Virginia Valdez are among the 32
Read moreBe You, Keep RoWINg: P.J. Fleck gives Spring 2021 Educator in Residence talk
Four-one-hundred-thousandths of a second. That’s the daily rate of progress sprinter Usain Bolt made between the 2008 and 2012 Olympic games in improving his already-record-setting time. Not much, P.J. Fleck told his online audience March 3 during his Spring 2021 Educator in
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Congratulations to these Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education alumni! Max Finley, B.S.Ed. Kinesiology, ’17, was named athletic trainer for the South Carolina Stingrays, affiliate of the NHL’s Washington Capitals and AHL’s Hershey Bears. Finley was assigned to the Stingrays by MUSC
Read moreEducator in Residence P.J. Fleck to share lessons of football, life in March 3 talk
P.J. Fleck will never forget his semester as a student-teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School. It was Spring 2004, and the wide receiver for the NIU Huskies football team had tried to postpone that classroom immersion – he was training for his
Read moreKNPE, Lorado Taft staff combine forces to keep field experience despite COVID
COVID-19 is not stopping P.E. majors in Gail Koehling’s KNPE 466: Field Experience at Outdoor Environments course from getting a taste of Lorado Taft training. Students in KNPE 466 typically visit the NIU facility in Oregon, Ill., for three days and two
Read moreBlack, Brown & Bilingüe: Alums launch podcast while leading suburban schools
For Lissette Jacobson and Maurice McDavid, the connection began Day One. Both began working in DeKalb in August of 2011, when they attended an orientation for new teachers – and Jacobson couldn’t help but notice McDavid’s commanding voice in the room: “You’re
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Congratulations to these alumni who are making a positive impact on the leadership and administration of education at all levels! Dan Bertrand, Ed.D. Educational Administration, ’05, was named director of Park Operations for the Marengo Park District. Bertrand was superintendent of Marengo
Read moreJobs, jobs, jobs! ETRA Ph.D. students, grads turn IT prep into prestigious gigs
Max Anderson is on a unique journey. He was the first instructional designer hired by the University of Illinois College of Medicine. That was 2013. And when college administrators were ready a few years later to recruit and appoint a director of
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