External and Global Programs – NIU College of Education

Educate Global reaches Spain via Zoom, participants will join in online seminars

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

As the initial dust of COVID-19 settled in the spring, Laurie Elish-Piper and David Walker began mulling what the virus meant for the near future of the college’s signature hands-on learning programs. “It became pretty apparent that our entire Educate and Engage

College of Education, RPS 205 launch Rockford Principal Residency Program

August 19, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, LEPF

The Northern Illinois University College of Education and Rockford Public Schools will launch this fall an innovative partnership to develop school leaders to serve the needs of Rockford-area schools. This cohort-based program is designed to improve academic and social-emotional learning outcomes from

Kildeer partners with NIU to provide teachers tools for ELL success stories

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

As the demographics of Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 began shifting within the last decade, administrators responded. The solution they implemented in 2017 continues to benefit not only the K-8 students of Buffalo Grove and Long Grove but also the

Teachers from Uruguay visit NIU, observe U.S. counterparts in DeKalb, Elgin schools

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, LEPF

Valentina González and Analia Piantanida rarely see cultural diversity in the homogenous society of Uruguay, where both are English teachers in middle schools and high schools. Coming to Illinois as part of the NIU College of Education’s Uruguay Fulbright Teachers Program, however,

Elgin U-46 partners with NIU to prepare new Special Ed teachers from within

January 22, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs, SEED

With teachers in short supply throughout Illinois and across the United States, the responsibility of confronting that challenge is often left to school districts. Elgin U-46 has found an answer in the NIU College of Education. Serving nearly 40,000 students in 11

Marguerite Key Fellows program marks two years of ideas, growing momentum

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs, LEPF

Kiwana Sanders grew up imagining the golden possibilities that she felt sure were waiting in the world outside her ZIP code. “I was one who was without,” says Sanders, principal of Nathan Hale Middle School in Cook County School District 130 of

College of Ed teams with school districts for professional development of teachers

October 3, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs

What do teachers want? To boost student learning. To improve school effectiveness. To advance their careers. Professional development that is meaningful, relevant and sustainable facilitates that – and the NIU College of Education makes it as easy as possible to obtain. Meet

Graham, Gabel halls remain busy places as learning flourishes throughout summer

August 27, 2019 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs

Summer is never slow in buildings that house the NIU College of Education. June saw more than 125 educators, mostly from DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 and Elgin’s U-46, absorbing the Social Justice Summer Camp’s immersive and intensive challenge to their

First cohort of Finland travelers return, minds open to innovative philosophies

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, SEED

Amanda Surrusco hadn’t expected the freedom. Maria Almeida hadn’t expected the differentiation. Kyle Conway hadn’t expected the trust. Surrusco, Almeida and Conway, three of the four NIU College of Education student-travelers on the inaugural Educate Global trip to Finland this May, witnessed

Educate Global travelers to visit Finland

March 13, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

Educate Global will send its first group of travelers to Finland this May for a two-week immersion in the Finnish Comprehensive School Curriculum, Content and Language Integrated Learning Method. Students will learn Finnish philosophies in classroom management, lesson planning and project work

Go East: Educate Global travelers ready for hands-on learning at Beijing Royal

June 13, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, SEED

Ten NIU College of Education undergraduates will travel to China this summer for Year Two of Educate Global, scheduled from early July through mid-August. Students will spend six weeks at the Beijing Royal School, where they will teach English to Chinese middle-

Replace judgment with curiosity: Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, SEED

After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a nearly empty airport in China, with none of the crowded hustle and