Sharing and celebrating good news is always an inspirational focus of all-college meetings, and the Aug. 24 edition was no exception. But the simple act of safely filling the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center that day – wearing masks,
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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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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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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
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