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Tag: Ed.S.

Cleaning up: Ed.S. student recalls path from custodian to curriculum director

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Like many teens, Michael Courington was dying to get a job. “My family didn’t have a lot of money growing up. I was chomping at the bit to turn 16 to start working because I wanted a car,” Courington says. “My mother

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Ed.S. student accepts new challenge while closing in on NIU superintendency degree

April 29, 2019 Mark McGowan LEPF

During Matt Birdsley’s high school days in Fulton, Ill., he took advantage of – and thoroughly enjoyed – service-learning opportunities that allowed him to work with elementary school students. Those positive interactions led Birdsley to the NIU College of Education, where he

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Superintendency alums look back fondly on NIU preparation, forward to new roles

April 29, 2019 Mark McGowan LEPF

Charlie Kyle and Matt Barbini, alums of NIU’s various Educational Administration programs, are celebrating new professional milestones. Kyle, who completed his Ed.D. in 2017, his Ed.S in 2004 and his M.S.Ed. in 2001, was named in 2018 as the assistant superintendent of

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Ed.D. in Ed Administration receives new name, focus

February 21, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Following the Illinois General Assembly’s update of the Illinois School Code standards for new school superintendents, the NIU Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations accordingly redesigned its programs. That work has resulted in untangling the Ed.S. – an educational specialist degree

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