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PLEDGE program aims to ease shortage of teachers, boost teacher diversity

February 3, 2021 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Illinois schools, like schools nationwide, desperately need more teachers – as well as more teachers who look like their students – to serve in growingly diverse classrooms. According to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, nearly 50% of teachers leave

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