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Tag: Michael Manderino

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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‘Keep talking’: Educators witness strength, advocacy at Social Justice Summer Camp

July 3, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

They were different women of different ages, sitting in different rooms, hearing different words on different subjects at different times. Yet their response – their natural, human reaction – was the same. The proverbial lumps in the throat, the moisture of not-quite-yet

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Social Justice Summer Camp 2.0 pushes educators to confront issues of diversity

August 22, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

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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Social Justice Summer Camp offers educators ideas to reach students in ‘a different way’

July 18, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Long lines in the lunchroom. Climbing the gymnasium rope. Nagging parents. The quadratic formula. Anxieties like these are the stuff of high school. For LGBTQ teens, though, they take a backseat to the issues of sexual orientation. Changing clothes not in a

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K-12 teachers to explore equity at Social Justice Summer Camp

May 9, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, LEED

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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Literacy & Elementary Education offers new reading cohort in Grayslake

October 19, 2015 admin-salvani LEED

Northern Illinois University’s Department of Literacy and Elementary Education (LEED) will offer a new cohort leading to a Master of Science degree in literacy education with a focus on reading beginning in 2016 at University Center-Lake County (UC-LC) in Grayslake. The program

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