Project TEAMS: Team-building Experiences and Activities in Middle School Archives

Photos: Project TEAMS

October 27, 2022 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

About 150 seventh-graders from Clinton Rosette Middle School came to an Anderson Hall gym in groups Oct. 19 and Oct. 26 to learn and practice concepts of teamwork. At the same time, 27 Middle Level Teaching and Learning majors in the MLTL

Amanda Baum joins NIU as coordinator of Illinois Tutoring Initiative’s Region 2

April 13, 2022 Mark McGowan enewsletter

Part of the NIU College of Education’s commitment to the Illinois Tutoring Initiative is the hiring of a full-time coordinator for the 16-county hub of Region 2. After all, the project funded by $3.4 million in federal pandemic relief for Illinois schools

Middle Level majors practice teaching, team-building with seventh-graders

November 17, 2021 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Seventh-graders from Clinton Rosette Middle School stood in a circle, each clutching a several-feet-long string tied to the same marker. Their task: cooperate to insert that marker into the mouth of a 20-ounce plastic bottle. First, they remained still as they pulled