Another bachelor’s degree pathway is now available for Elgin-area students who want to become NIU College of Education-graduated teachers without traveling to DeKalb. NIU and Elgin Community College will launch a cohort this fall in Special Education, the second such collaboration and
Read moreEducate Global taps Zoom to connect with another new destination: Ukraine
Call it perfect timing. Fall 2020: Mariana Ricklefs begins her second year on the faculty of the NIU Department of Curriculum and Instruction, thrilled to share in the launch of new (and virtual) Educate Global program with Spain and organized by colleague
Read moreBe You, Keep RoWINg: P.J. Fleck gives Spring 2021 Educator in Residence talk
Four-one-hundred-thousandths of a second. That’s the daily rate of progress sprinter Usain Bolt made between the 2008 and 2012 Olympic games in improving his already-record-setting time. Not much, P.J. Fleck told his online audience March 3 during his Spring 2021 Educator in
Read moreEducator in Residence P.J. Fleck to share lessons of football, life in March 3 talk
P.J. Fleck will never forget his semester as a student-teacher at Clinton Rosette Middle School. It was Spring 2004, and the wide receiver for the NIU Huskies football team had tried to postpone that classroom immersion – he was training for his
Read moreDecade of distinction: U.S. News ranks online graduate degrees in nation’s best
Online graduate programs in the NIU College of Education are celebrating their 10th consecutive year of high acclaim from U.S. News & World Report. The College of Education is ranked 21, placing in the top 10% of the 296 institutions assessed with
Read morePLEDGE program aims to ease shortage of teachers, boost teacher diversity
Illinois schools, like schools nationwide, desperately need more teachers – as well as more teachers who look like their students – to serve in growingly diverse classrooms. According to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, nearly 50% of teachers leave
Read moreCollege of Ed, EdSystems join to offer incentives to CCPE-endorsed students
New incentives for Illinois high school students graduating with the College and Career Pathway Endorsement (CCPE) in Education are now available from the Northern Illinois University College of Education and the Education Systems Center at NIU. Starting immediately, CCPE-endorsed students who apply,
Read moreBlack students share COE experiences, offer recommendations for improvement
Four Black students in the NIU College of Education joined the Jan. 7 spring all-college meeting to share their personal stories and offer guidance for how faculty and staff can better empower them during their academic journeys. The quartet included one undergraduate
Read moreSupporting students of color: Faculty share ideas to expand concept of equity
As the powerful messages from a panel of Black students concluded during the Jan. 7 all-college meeting, Dean Laurie Elish-Piper shifted the conversation to action. “I’ve asked each department to share an initiative that directly relates to supporting students of color, broadening
Read moreCOE offers free, online tutoring services to NIU employees’ elementary children
NIU faculty and staff can receive free, online tutoring for their children in first- through sixth-grades, thanks to a new partnership between the College of Education and the Employee Assistance Program. Mission Possible Tutoring and Homework Help connects elementary school students with
Read moreHere We Grow: Elementary Education
One year after Sally Blake arrived to lead the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, she joined in the August 2019 “grand opening” celebration of a new partnership with Elgin Community College to offer NIU’s B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education there. And she’s still
Read moreA message from Dean Laurie Elish-Piper
At our fall all-college social event, we did a poll asking, “Which team is most likely to win the 2020 World Series?“ Not surprisingly, the majority of us believed that the Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox would be the last team
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