JQ Adams Archives - NIU College of Education

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,

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

K-12 teachers to explore equity at Social Justice Summer Camp

May 9, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, LEED

Question: Can K-12 teachers without a deep understanding of social justice concerns effectively engage and enlighten their students on those topics? Joseph Flynn, James Cohen and Mike Manderino would say “no.” But the three professors from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction