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Tag: DeKalb

Enseño en Español: DeKalb, Elgin enrolls teachers in new NIU course on biliteracy

September 28, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

During her years as a Cuban living in rural Galesburg, Ill., Mayra Daniel impressed on her family the need for fluency in her native tongue of Spanish. But that language was rare in this community of 35,000 in Knox County. “Few spoke

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Social Justice Summer Camp 3.0 to foster growth via discomfort, ‘intellectual threat’

June 4, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Jennie Hueber felt uncomfortable at NIU’s first Social Justice Summer Camp in 2017 – and that was a good thing. Hueber, the director of curriculum and instruction for DeKalb School District 428, already had begun her personal and professional journey to recognize,

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