Alumni Stories – NIU College of Education

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

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

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

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