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Three-decade CPS principal remembers finding career mantra in NIU classrooms

January 22, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, SEED

At age 30, recently married and with a child on the way, Richard Morris decided to take an interview for a principal’s job in the Chicago Public Schools. The 1980 alum of the NIU College of Education really wasn’t in the market

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Roberts co-authors ‘Bitten by the Blues,’ story of Chicago-born Alligator Records

October 30, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Patrick Roberts, associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations, is celebrating the Oct. 30 publication of “Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story.” Roberts is the co-author of the book with Bruce Iglauer, who in 1971 launched

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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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Laura Ruth Johnson to study civic engagement, advocacy of young parents in Humboldt Park

May 9, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Laura Ruth Johnson has spent two decades observing the lives, struggles and triumphs of young parents in Chicago. Throughout those years, the associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment has seen many young parents thrive in spite of

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