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Tag: Office of External & Global Programs

Kaneland teams with NIU to stimulate teacher-leaders, personalized learning

February 3, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Nearly two dozen teachers, mostly from Kaneland Community Unit School District 302, are trailblazers in a new school-university collaboration that will produce instructional leaders focused on providing personalized learning for students. Sarah Mumm and Patrick Raleigh, Kaneland’s directors of Educational Services for

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Congratulations!

December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, External and Global Programs

Half of this year’s International Recognition Reception honors went to the College of Education. Ted Moen, program coordinator in the Office of External and Global Programs, received the award for Outstanding Staff Contribution to International Education. Moen is instrumental in providing infrastructure,

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College of Education, RPS 205 launch Rockford Principal Residency Program

August 19, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, LEPF

The Northern Illinois University College of Education and Rockford Public Schools will launch this fall an innovative partnership to develop school leaders to serve the needs of Rockford-area schools. This cohort-based program is designed to improve academic and social-emotional learning outcomes from

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Kildeer partners with NIU to provide teachers tools for ELL success stories

June 6, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs

As the demographics of Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 began shifting within the last decade, administrators responded. The solution they implemented in 2017 continues to benefit not only the K-8 students of Buffalo Grove and Long Grove but also the

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Teachers from Uruguay visit NIU, observe U.S. counterparts in DeKalb, Elgin schools

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, LEPF

Valentina González and Analia Piantanida rarely see cultural diversity in the homogenous society of Uruguay, where both are English teachers in middle schools and high schools. Coming to Illinois as part of the NIU College of Education’s Uruguay Fulbright Teachers Program, however,

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Elgin U-46 partners with NIU to prepare new Special Ed teachers from within

January 22, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs, SEED

With teachers in short supply throughout Illinois and across the United States, the responsibility of confronting that challenge is often left to school districts. Elgin U-46 has found an answer in the NIU College of Education. Serving nearly 40,000 students in 11

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College of Ed teams with school districts for professional development of teachers

October 3, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs

What do teachers want? To boost student learning. To improve school effectiveness. To advance their careers. Professional development that is meaningful, relevant and sustainable facilitates that – and the NIU College of Education makes it as easy as possible to obtain. Meet

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Graham, Gabel halls remain busy places as learning flourishes throughout summer

August 27, 2019 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs

Summer is never slow in buildings that house the NIU College of Education. June saw more than 125 educators, mostly from DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 and Elgin’s U-46, absorbing the Social Justice Summer Camp’s immersive and intensive challenge to their

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Chinese education leaders visit to glimpse trends, best practices

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF

When DeLandon Mason lifted a brass trumpet to his lips May 1 in a classroom of the Learning Center, the notes he blew were somewhat reminiscent of the beginning of a horse race. His audience – a delegation of secondary school principals,

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Replace judgment with curiosity: Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, External and Global Programs, Graduate Programs, SEED

After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a nearly empty airport in China, with none of the crowded hustle and

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External and Global Programs honored for international work

November 22, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, External and Global Programs

Annual winners of the Award for Outstanding Department Contribution to International Education at NIU all have something in common. Each brings “the perspective of the world to Northern Illinois University and the expertise of Northern Illinois University to the world, through international

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LEARN-IT conference exposes educators to instructional tech

June 6, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, External and Global Programs

Advances in technology come so quickly and frequently that it’s nearly impossible to stay on top of the latest innovations and applications. Yet for teachers, and for IT professionals who work in schools, the integration of technology to enhance learning carries a

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