Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic Archives - NIU College of Education

Laurie Elish-Piper, David Paige honored by fellow literacy educators, researchers

November 17, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

NIU College of Education Dean Laurie Elish-Piper and David Paige, director of the Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic, were honored Nov. 6 by the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER). Elish-Piper received the A.B. Herr Award, which celebrates the distinguished service

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

Literacy Education grad students tutor, learn inside Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Danelle Davis spends most of her weekdays from August through May teaching in front of a classroom of nearly 30 first-graders. Summer 2019, however, has afforded the DeKalb School District 428 teacher the opportunity to work individually with a child who needs

Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic to open Little Free Library at Glidden Homestead

December 11, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

NIU’s Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic will open its 10th Little Free Library next semester in front of the historic Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center. Kristine Wilke, the clinic’s new director, is excited to secure the 921 W. Lincoln Hwy.

Future teachers gain head start, sharpen skills as literacy tutors

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Malika Lee started tutoring young children when she was a young child herself. Now as she does that work professionally as a reading tutor at NIU’s Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic, the Early Childhood Education major has discovered her early ambition was

Laurie Elish-Piper to lead NIU College of Education

March 24, 2016 admin-salvani LEED

(This article originally appeared on NIU Today.) Laurie Elish-Piper, who has served as acting dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Education since 2015, will take over officially July 1. Members of the NIU Board of Trustees endorsed her appointment last

Supporter of literacy program receives two prestigious awards

August 31, 2015 admin-salvani Alumni eNewsletter, LEED

As the author or co-author of approximately 300 articles, research studies and professional books, Jerry L. Johns, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus in the College of Education’s Department of Literacy and Elementary Education (LEED), is known in the field of reading education for