Registration is open for the Fall 2022 P-20 Network Meeting – and College of Education faculty and staff who support teacher-licensure programs should consider attending as their schedules allow. Scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at NIU’s Naperville
Read moreSupervisors needed for spring semester student-teaching, early field placements
Behind every great teacher is an amazing student-teaching supervisor. Do you know recently retired teachers looking for part-time work with flexible hours that would allow them to remain active in teaching without the day-to-day commitment of classroom instruction? NIU needs university supervisors
Read moreAlumni Accomplishments
Congratulations to these alumni of the NIU College of Education! George Abbott, M.S.Ed. Visual Disabilities Program, ’92, served as one of 10 jurors for the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition. A panel of esteemed blindness leaders from around the world come
Read moreVisual Disabilities students impress with research at biennial conference
Gaylen Kapperman has attended countless professional conferences during his nearly half-century in academia. But the professor emeritus in the Department of Special and Early Education’s Visual Disabilities program is hard-pressed to remember a meeting room fuller than the one he encountered this
Read moreWarmth of the Sun: Pi-Sui Hsu enables Rockford students to build solar ‘cars’
What provides the key to driving solar-powered model cars to the finish line? Observations and questions, apparently. At least that was the case for a dozen Rockford middle-schoolers who spent a week with Pi-Sui Hsu this June. “The purpose of the summer
Read moreFirst graduate, current students thriving via KNPE’s evolving doctoral program
Call it perfect timing. Karisa Kuipers came to NIU to pursue a master’s degree in Kinesiology and Physical Education with a specialization in Sport and Exercise Psychology. By the time she finished in May 2019, the department was close to debuting a
Read moreSymposium to examine Paseo Boricua as ‘Community as Intellectual Space’
A two-day symposium in Chicago this month will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School and the broader work of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Laura Ruth Johnson, a co-organizer of the event, expects academic scholars, community leaders,
Read moreKNPE ‘mom’ Jeanne Johnston to retire
Growing up in suburban Monona, Wis., Jeanne Johnston thought she’d like to become a teacher. Life had different plans, of course, and Johnston herself contributed to that when she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to study business administration. And when she
Read moreTodd Gilson digging in as associate dean of Research, Resources and Innovation
As someone who has studied what distinguishes successful leaders from the rest, Todd Gilson is attracted to administration for interesting reasons. “I think it’s very fun to sketch things out on a whiteboard,” says Gilson, the college’s new associate dean of Research,
Read moreNew KNPE chair Steve Howell pledges to sustain momentum, celebrate success
If everything happens for a reason, Steve Howell is living proof. The new chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, who has taught in the sport management program since his arrival at NIU in 2011 as a visiting assistant professor,
Read moreThree additional 2+2 agreements signed with Waubonsee Community College
Three more NIU College of Education bachelor’s degree programs are now available in a seamless 2+2 format to Waubonsee Community College students. Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Kinesiology have joined Elementary Education, Physical Education and Sport Management on the menu of
Read moreHard fun: Naperville children provide data on robots, computational thinking
Some faculty in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment (ETRA) were busy this summer writing about robots – and children. Can children program robots to sort differently sized objects for recycling? Can they write code for robots to simulate an
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