NIU hosted 216 students contemplating careers as educators for the Oct. 19 Educators Rising Mini-Conference. Dean Laurie Elish-Piper welcomed the students to the Carl Sandburg Auditorium, where she introduced keynote speaker Kimberly Radostits, the 2022 Illinois Teacher of the Year. Students also
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Seventy-five high school students seriously contemplating careers as teachers gained powerful motivation May 25 during the Northern Kane Educators Rising Conference at NIU. Laurie Elish-Piper, dean of the NIU College of Education, made sure of it. Teachers, she told the teens gathered
Read moreTrailblazers: NIU, ECC salute first cohort of Elementary Ed graduates via PLEDGE
Fifteen newly minted teachers are ready to return to the school districts where they grew up and, thanks to a partnership between Elgin Community College and Northern Illinois University, never really left. The students completed their first two years at ECC and
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