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Congratulations!

October 27, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, LEPF, SEED

Congratulations to these members of the NIU College of Education family! Dean Laurie Elish-Piper, Professor Emeritus Jerry Johns and NIU College of Education alumna Susan Lenski are recipients of the 2020 Diane Lapp & James Flood Professional Collaborator Award from the International

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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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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

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Project FIRST participants get good advice on moving from associate professor to full

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, LEPF

Since February, associate professors in the College of Education have had the chance to explore the changes in expectation that come with that promotion. Project FIRST: Faculty Integration and Refocusing for Successful Transitions, and its related informational workshops, stems from an idea

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Future middle school teachers at NIU hear expert advice from 13-year-olds, parents

April 30, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, LEPF

As a former middle school principal and assistant principal in the McHenry County towns of Woodstock and Cary, Joyce Laben knows well the value of listening to the “stakeholders” at those institutions. It’s something she stresses in the EPS 512: Principal, Family

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Welcome from the Chair

December 5, 2018 Mark McGowan Alumni eNewsletter

Greetings from the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations (LEPF). We are always happy to reconnect with our alumni. It has been a busy year for LEPF, and I am excited to share a few of the many endeavors and accomplishments

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A homecoming 40 years in the making: Lynn Gibson starts second career at NIU

October 2, 2018 Mark McGowan Alumni, Alumni eNewsletter, enewsletter, LEPF

During Lynn Gibson’s undergraduate years in the NIU College of Business, then housed inside Wirtz Hall, she lived directly across the street in the Timbercrest Apartments on the corner of Lucinda Avenue and Garden Road. Hers was Apartment 5, she knows for

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Five years, nine cohorts: NIU maintains excellence in Principal Prep program following update of Illinois standards

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Soon after new Illinois standards for school principals were introduced in 2010, Jim and Becky Surber joined the NIU College of Education’s efforts to modify its program to comply. NIU’s program soon became one of the first in the state to gain

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Marguerite Key Fellows names first class of school principals

April 18, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Six principals from NIU’s service region were named as the inaugural Marguerite Key Fellows, a new initiative of the NIU College of Education. Rachel Bednar, principal, Edison Middle School, Wheaton Jay Brickman, principal, Hinckley-Big Rock High School, Hinckley Patrick Hardy, principal, Proviso

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Global problems, community praxis: April 19 conference set to explore world conflict, peace

March 29, 2018 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF

Scholars from NIU and Macedonia will convene Thursday, April 19, in DeKalb to discuss local, national and international approaches to peace and transcultural communication. “Global Problems and Community Praxis” is the second annual conference – but the first in the United States

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U.S. News extols College of Ed online grad programs – again

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

Another January, another celebration of a Top 5 ranking from U.S. News & World Report for the NIU College of Education’s online graduate programs. NIU is tied for fifth with the University of Houston and Utah State University this year, bringing the

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CoE remembers Joe Saban

October 30, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Joseph M. Saban, who taught educational leadership courses in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations, died Sept. 29 in Lakewood, Ill. He was 70. Saban came to the NIU College of Education from Community High School District 155 in suburban

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