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Tag: Alumni Stories

College of Ed alumna shares KNPE instructional philosophies with P.E. teachers in Chicago

September 19, 2017 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Yara Santillan traded her sneakers for high heels, her gym for a cubicle and her whistle for a smartphone. What the new coordinator of Physical Education for the Chicago Public Schools hasn’t given up is her drive and ambition to make a

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Trailblazing

October 11, 2016 Mark McGowan Alumni, Alumni eNewsletter, Graduate Programs, SEED

Craig Phillips, M.S.Ed. ’95, is completing a groundbreaking project with the National Park Service. Phillips, a certified orientation and mobility specialist and teacher of the blind and visually impaired, has led a project to make all 40-plus miles of trails in the

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Alumni profile: Meet Mina Blazy

September 22, 2015 admin-salvani Alumni, LEED

If you had asked Mina Blazy if she aspired to be a teacher back while she was a student at Proviso East High School, she would have told you “no.” But the fond memories of a 10th grade chemistry teacher at that

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