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Tag: Jim and Becky Surber

College of Education, RPS 205 launch Rockford Principal Residency Program

August 19, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, LEPF

The Northern Illinois University College of Education and Rockford Public Schools will launch this fall an innovative partnership to develop school leaders to serve the needs of Rockford-area schools. This cohort-based program is designed to improve academic and social-emotional learning outcomes from

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A homecoming 40 years in the making: Lynn Gibson starts second career at NIU

October 2, 2018 Mark McGowan Alumni, Alumni eNewsletter, enewsletter, LEPF

During Lynn Gibson’s undergraduate years in the NIU College of Business, then housed inside Wirtz Hall, she lived directly across the street in the Timbercrest Apartments on the corner of Lucinda Avenue and Garden Road. Hers was Apartment 5, she knows for

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Five years, nine cohorts: NIU maintains excellence in Principal Prep program following update of Illinois standards

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Soon after new Illinois standards for school principals were introduced in 2010, Jim and Becky Surber joined the NIU College of Education’s efforts to modify its program to comply. NIU’s program soon became one of the first in the state to gain

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