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Tag: Elgin

Elementary Ed’s Elgin 2+2 off to good start

September 18, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Esme wants “to give something back to my community, and what better way to do it than by educating the leaders of tomorrow.” Lisset loves “working and interacting with children. I have always looked up to my teachers as role models, and

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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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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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NIU working with ECC to offer Elementary Ed degree in Elgin

June 6, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Beginning in Fall 2018, students at Elgin Community College need not travel to DeKalb to earn bachelor’s degrees in Elementary Education from Northern Illinois University. Administrators of the NIU College of Education and Elgin Community College are preparing a “2+2” agreement that

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