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Tag: dual-language

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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Rochelle school leaders partner with NIU to identify, prepare, hire bilingual teachers

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Jason Harper, superintendent of schools in nearby Rochelle, knows that the diversity of his community is evolving. Forty percent of the Hub City’s current population is Hispanic, a number that only will continue to rise in coming years. Harper also understands that

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