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Category: Graduate Programs

CAHE graduate students find validation of paths via Phyllis Cunningham honors

February 21, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Valronica Scales felt the call to work toward social justice while working in Chicago with low-income students and families. Some were undocumented. Some spoke no English. Most were people of color. “Because I spoke fluent Spanish, and had lived abroad for a

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Enseño en Español: DeKalb, Elgin enrolls teachers in new NIU course on biliteracy

September 28, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

During her years as a Cuban living in rural Galesburg, Ill., Mayra Daniel impressed on her family the need for fluency in her native tongue of Spanish. But that language was rare in this community of 35,000 in Knox County. “Few spoke

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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

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Sport Management alum Jamaal Hines scores job leading after-school programs

August 12, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Jamaal Hines grew up hooked on police procedurals on TV, imagining that he someday would solve crimes like the detectives on “CSI” and “NCIS” on behalf of innocent victims. Enrolling at Old Dominion University in his native Virginia, he earned a bachelor’s

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New M.S.Ed. student ready to continue inspiring young daughter, fellow parents

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Can I testify real quick? So begins Janet King’s Facebook hosanna in December upon her graduation from NIU, a journey longer than most, complete with a plot twist halfway through its tale of determination. Her story, a preface to her newly begun

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Website honors M.S.Ed. in Special Ed among nation’s best for new teachers

December 9, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, Graduate Programs, SEED

NIU’s M.S.Ed. in Special Education has earned high kudos from Teacher.org, a national website “for teachers by teachers.” Following a review of “every single accredited ITP master’s program available,” the site’s editors “hand-selected the ones we could confidently recommend as the very

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Higher ed leader John M. Dunn named college’s Fall 2019 Educator in Residence

September 24, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

A university president. A provost. A dean. A department chair. A vice chancellor – and two terms as an interim chancellor. An internationally respected researcher. John M. Dunn, recently retired from a decade of successful leadership of Western Michigan University and now

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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

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Literacy Education grad students tutor, learn inside Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Danelle Davis spends most of her weekdays from August through May teaching in front of a classroom of nearly 30 first-graders. Summer 2019, however, has afforded the DeKalb School District 428 teacher the opportunity to work individually with a child who needs

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Summer schools tap CI doctoral students to boost learning of international students

July 3, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

For each of the previous 15 summers, NIU College of Education doctoral student Laura Crisp has spent six weeks teaching teens from China and South Korea. The students come to the United States for multiple-year stays, most arriving in time for eighth-grade,

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Above and beyond: Ten students earn right to wear Educate and Engage stoles

November 28, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, SEED

Ten graduates of the NIU College of Education sported something new when they crossed the stage during the Dec. 15 and 16 commencement ceremonies. Blue stoles emblazoned with the words “Educate” and “Engage” boldly conveyed that the students took full advantage of

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Ed.D. student in Curriculum Leadership blazes own trail toward rewarding career

September 18, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

When Stacy M. Seaworth graduated from Rochelle Township High School in 1989, she expected to follow in the footsteps of those amazing educators who had meant so much to her. Five years later, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Illinois

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