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Tag: Laurie Elish-Piper

Black students share COE experiences, offer recommendations for improvement

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, LEPF, SEED

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

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Supporting students of color: Faculty share ideas to expand concept of equity

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF, SEED

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

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COE offers free, online tutoring services to NIU employees’ elementary children

January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

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

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Here We Grow: Elementary Education

November 17, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

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

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A message from Dean Laurie Elish-Piper

October 27, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

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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Congratulations!

October 27, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, LEPF, SEED

Congratulations to these members of the NIU College of Education family! Dean Laurie Elish-Piper, Professor Emeritus Jerry Johns and NIU College of Education alumna Susan Lenski are recipients of the 2020 Diane Lapp & James Flood Professional Collaborator Award from the International

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Noted golf-swing guru Jim Suttie named Fall 2020 ‘virtual’ Educator in Residence

October 6, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, KNPE

Jim Suttie was only 4 when he first encountered what has defined the rest of his life and his still-growing list of internationally celebrated accomplishments. “My dad was a physician – a pediatrician – in DeKalb. He played golf, and he got

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A message from Dean Laurie Elish-Piper

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

In celebration of the start of another school year, I changed my Teams background to an elementary classroom scene. That picture brings back fond memories of my teaching days as well as the anticipation and excitement for opportunity and growth. Clearly, as

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College enrollment continues to climb

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

One year ago, the NIU College of Education found reason for celebration in rising enrollment numbers compared to the fall of 2018. That upward trend continues this fall as the college welcomes 2,539 total students, of whom 1,319 are in bachelor’s degree

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Educate Global reaches Spain via Zoom, participants will join in online seminars

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

As the initial dust of COVID-19 settled in the spring, Laurie Elish-Piper and David Walker began mulling what the virus meant for the near future of the college’s signature hands-on learning programs. “It became pretty apparent that our entire Educate and Engage

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No picnic, no problem: College welcomes new students during ‘reception’ on Zoom

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter

During a normal year, new students to the NIU College of Education are invited to a Sunday-before-classes picnic each August where they meet new people, make new friends and match names-and-faces of some of the faculty and staff who will guide them

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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

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