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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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Uncharted waters: KNPE alum leading COVID-prompted online public school

November 17, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, CI, enewsletter, KNPE, LEPF

Families in the 15,000-student Thompson School District of Loveland, Colorado, were offered an intriguing and innovative option this fall as the COVID-19 pandemic barreled into another semester. Called Thompson Connect Online (TCO), it’s a completely virtual “school” created solely to enroll the

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Kerry Burch pens new book interpreting educational effects of Jefferson’s theory

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Kerry Burch, professor in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations, is celebrating the recent publication of ”Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose.” Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book newly interprets the educational implications of Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary

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Pat Kee follows family encouragement, retires after hometown lifetime at NIU

August 12, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Pat Kee was born and raised in DeKalb, just like her parents and their parents before them. “My mother’s side of the family lived in town. My dad’s side of the family lived in Pierce Township and owned a farm. All the

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Social Justice Summer Camp 4.0 turns to podcasts to continue vital momentum

June 7, 2020 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, LEPF

Joe Flynn heard the news without any sense of surprise. “It came out in late April that there was a disproportionate representation of African Americans and Latinos who have been contracting and, most importantly, dying from the virus,” says Flynn, an associate

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Educational Administration alumni lead school districts through COVID-19 crisis

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Brian Harris, M.S.Ed. ’91, Ph.D. ’01, had visited the bustling cafeteria of Barrington High School many times before. He had never regarded it the way he did March 12, however, through the social-distancing lens of COVID-19. “We have 650 kids eating lunch

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Jacobs HS Principal Barb Valle reflects on NIU-launched administrative career

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Most parents would love to hear that their daughter wanted to become a teacher. Not Barb Valle’s, however, who were less than thrilled when she dropped her original major in International Business. “I’m originally from Princeton, Ill. I had a wonderful, wonderful

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Cleaning up: Ed.S. student recalls path from custodian to curriculum director

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Like many teens, Michael Courington was dying to get a job. “My family didn’t have a lot of money growing up. I was chomping at the bit to turn 16 to start working because I wanted a car,” Courington says. “My mother

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EPFE 201 students rock Ecochallenge

April 26, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Fifty-two students in “Education as an Agent of Change” classes are topping all Illinois schools in competition to do the most environmental and social good during the month of Earth Day. They’re taking part in the online Ecochallenge, thanks to Gary Swick,

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Grad students modify Chicago research to address host site’s COVID-19 concerns

April 19, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

During this strange era of COVID-19, the adage about “the best-laid plans” has proven itself more than a cliché. For Dean Laurie Elish-Piper and Laura Ruth Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, their work that

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COE Student Spotlight: Michelé Smith

April 5, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, LEPF

Hometown: Maywood, Ill. Program: Ph.D. Educational Psychology Status: Defending dissertation What inspired you to pursue this degree/career? I’m an African-American female. About 10 years ago, I was at another community college, and I met a young lady who I was very impressed

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