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Tag: District 428

Black, Brown & Bilingüe: Alums launch podcast while leading suburban schools

February 21, 2021 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, LEPF

For Lissette Jacobson and Maurice McDavid, the connection began Day One. Both began working in DeKalb in August of 2011, when they attended an orientation for new teachers – and Jacobson couldn’t help but notice McDavid’s commanding voice in the room: “You’re

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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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Keep learning, keep teaching – Part 3: Educators detail COVID-19 adjustments

April 19, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Like every student-teacher across the United States, Chloe Burns is working through a situation she never could have anticipated. But that doesn’t mean she’s not making the most of a difficult road. “eLearning is definitely not something I expected to encounter during

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Educators in Action: Share your stories!

March 31, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

We want to know what our educator-alums are doing to “keep teaching.” Please complete our online form to tell us how you’re promoting eLearning with your students during the COVID-19 situation! Teaching in the time of COVID-19 is uncharted territory for almost

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Teachers from Uruguay visit NIU, observe U.S. counterparts in DeKalb, Elgin schools

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, LEPF

Valentina González and Analia Piantanida rarely see cultural diversity in the homogenous society of Uruguay, where both are English teachers in middle schools and high schools. Coming to Illinois as part of the NIU College of Education’s Uruguay Fulbright Teachers Program, however,

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‘Keep talking’: Educators witness strength, advocacy at Social Justice Summer Camp

July 3, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

They were different women of different ages, sitting in different rooms, hearing different words on different subjects at different times. Yet their response – their natural, human reaction – was the same. The proverbial lumps in the throat, the moisture of not-quite-yet

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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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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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Social Justice Summer Camp 2.0 pushes educators to confront issues of diversity

August 22, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Participants in last summer’s debut of NIU’s Social Justice Summer Camp gave James Cohen, Joseph Flynn and Michael Manderino a clear directive as they departed for home. Please, please do this again. And so they did, even if they had planned to

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KNPE students lead fun, games at Brooks Elementary field day

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Cold winds blew across the Brooks Elementary School playground Halloween morning, but those chills couldn’t stop the fun of bowling soccer balls and poofy balls toward a 10-pin pumpkin or running relays around hay bales. Within the warmth of the building, an

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Physical Ed majors provide ‘structured recess’ programming for Brooks Elementary children

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Recess is fun and games at most elementary school students, but it’s not always without problems. For one, it’s often lightly supervised. And, says Zach Wahl-Alexander, professor of Physical Education, it’s likely parent-volunteers and not teachers who are in charge. Meanwhile, Wahl-Alexander

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Clinton Rosette seventh-graders ‘teach’ NIU Middle Level majors

October 30, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Would you rather have hands for feet – or feet for hands? Would you rather have the hiccups for the rest of your life – or the feeling that you’re about to sneeze? Would you rather eat brownies for the rest of

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