Educate and Engage Program Archives - NIU College of Education

Educate Global trip will send current, future teachers to Kenya, Tanzania

September 21, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, LEPF

Fourteen NIU College of Education students will travel to Kenya and Tanzania in 2022 for a personal immersion to understand the challenges of not only learning another language but learning in it. Pending COVID restrictions at the time, the new Educate Global

Educate Global taps Zoom to connect with another new destination: Ukraine

April 7, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

Call it perfect timing. Fall 2020: Mariana Ricklefs begins her second year on the faculty of the NIU Department of Curriculum and Instruction, thrilled to share in the launch of new (and virtual) Educate Global program with Spain and organized by colleague

College of Ed, EdSystems join to offer incentives to CCPE-endorsed students

February 3, 2021 Mark McGowan enewsletter

New incentives for Illinois high school students graduating with the College and Career Pathway Endorsement (CCPE) in Education are now available from the Northern Illinois University College of Education and the Education Systems Center at NIU. Starting immediately, CCPE-endorsed students who apply,

Best of both worlds: Educate U.S. takes virtual trip to Houston during pandemic

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

COVID-19 could not cancel the NIU College of Education’s January 2021 edition of Educate U.S. with the Houston Independent School District. Even as the pandemic did prevent travel to Texas for the 14 teacher-licensure candidates chosen to participate in the real-world learning,

Educate Global reaches Spain via Zoom, participants will join in online seminars

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

As the initial dust of COVID-19 settled in the spring, Laurie Elish-Piper and David Walker began mulling what the virus meant for the near future of the college’s signature hands-on learning programs. “It became pretty apparent that our entire Educate and Engage

No picnic, no problem: College welcomes new students during ‘reception’ on Zoom

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

During a normal year, new students to the NIU College of Education are invited to a Sunday-before-classes picnic each August where they meet new people, make new friends and match names-and-faces of some of the faculty and staff who will guide them

All-College Meeting goes virtual, shares optimism for a ‘modified’ fall semester

August 20, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Laurie Elish-Piper opened Tuesday’s All-College Meeting by quickly acknowledging the elephant in the virtual room. COVID-19 continues to impact the world, and returning to a new semester of teaching and learning will bring “challenges and situations that are quite different than what

CI, College of DuPage ink 2+2 agreement for seamless Elementary Education path

July 13, 2020 Mark McGowan Uncategorized

Future B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education majors who want to start their studies at the College of DuPage can transfer seamlessly into the NIU College of Education. Thanks to a newly signed, non-cohort-based 2+2 agreement between COD and the Department of Curriculum and

Houston, we have liftoff! Two COE alums reach stars with Texas teaching awards

April 5, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, SEED

Jessica Dyra and Aimee Zepeda are proof of the power of positive role models. “I’ve always liked school, and as I grew up, I saw how much of an impact my teachers had on me,” says Dyra, who is from Crystal Lake.

Jenn Jacobs nets federal grant to create national women’s sport summit in Belize

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Alternative Spring BAE 2.0 will touch down in Belize in Spring 2020 with a different mission than its Engage Global debut in 2019, thanks to a $10,000 award from the U.S. Department of State. Jenn Jacobs, an assistant professor of Sport and

First cohort of Finland travelers return, minds open to innovative philosophies

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, SEED

Amanda Surrusco hadn’t expected the freedom. Maria Almeida hadn’t expected the differentiation. Kyle Conway hadn’t expected the trust. Surrusco, Almeida and Conway, three of the four NIU College of Education student-travelers on the inaugural Educate Global trip to Finland this May, witnessed

Educate U.S., Engage U.S. celebrate second year of journeys to North Dakota, Colorado

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

Sometimes the second time around is just as sweet as the first. May 2019 saw the return of Educate U.S. in North Dakota and Engage U.S. in Colorado and Nebraska; both new options of the NIU College of Education programs debuted in