Jodi Lampi – NIU College of Education

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

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 Global travelers to visit Finland

March 13, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

Educate Global will send its first group of travelers to Finland this May for a two-week immersion in the Finnish Comprehensive School Curriculum, Content and Language Integrated Learning Method. Students will learn Finnish philosophies in classroom management, lesson planning and project work

Academic Equity Grant recipients begin research work, student success initiative

March 13, 2019 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter

Xiaodan Hu wants to know more about why, and how many, students do or do not succeed at the NIU College of Education. Jodi Lampi wants to strengthen the Academic Literacy and Learning Program she directs as part of her work as

Chinese education leaders visit to glimpse trends, best practices

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

When DeLandon Mason lifted a brass trumpet to his lips May 1 in a classroom of the Learning Center, the notes he blew were somewhat reminiscent of the beginning of a horse race. His audience – a delegation of secondary school principals,

Replace judgment with curiosity: Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, SEED

After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a nearly empty airport in China, with none of the crowded hustle and