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Tag: Melanie Walski

Read to me: Literacy educators explore ‘magic’ of COVID-19 online read-alouds

June 7, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

As schools closed across the country for COVID-19, celebrities quickly found a new calling. Betty White, Michelle Obama, Josh Gad, Demi Lovato, Jimmy Fallon, Reese Witherspoon and countless other famous faces sat in front of cameras to engage in an online version

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CI’s Melanie Walski, Peet Smith co-author latest edition of noted textbook on fluency

February 5, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Melanie Walski joined the NIU College of Education in the fall of 2016 as a visiting assistant professor. She was hired as tenure-track in 2017. Peet Smith came 12 months afterward, arriving in 2018. One year later, during the autumn semester of

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Literacy Education grad students tutor, learn inside Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Graduate Programs

Danelle Davis spends most of her weekdays from August through May teaching in front of a classroom of nearly 30 first-graders. Summer 2019, however, has afforded the DeKalb School District 428 teacher the opportunity to work individually with a child who needs

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Educate Global travelers leave China with perspective from another’s shoes

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Educate Global 2.0 is history. China looms in the rearview mirror. A new semester of learning is underway in DeKalb. But the broadened perspectives Educate Global provided to NIU’s future teachers seem destined to persist in countless and unpredictable ways. Just ask

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CoE welcomes new faculty, staff

August 25, 2017 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF, SEED

Twelve new faculty members are joining the College of Education this fall, including a few familiar faces. The roster includes Melanie Walski, who has been a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Jenn Jacobs, who has taught

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