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Tag: STEM Read Summer Institute

STEM Read Summer Institute prepares educators to bring books, curiosity to life

August 5, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Melanie Koss donned a headpiece that gave her deer ears, reclined motionless on a couch in the Gabel Hall Learning Center, closed her eyes and played the role of a deceased doe. And that wasn’t even the strangest sight at July’s NIU

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STEM Read Institute sparks educators

August 22, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Macy Gray’s journey as a teacher began at Mayatan Bilingual School, a non-profit in Honduras where she taught sixth-graders. When she returned to Illinois this summer to begin a new job this fall teaching sixth- and seventh-graders at Chicago’s Altus Academy, the

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STEM Read Summer Institute to teach educators to transfer books ‘off the page’

July 16, 2018 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Bringing books to life – transporting an author’s words and worlds from typewritten pages into physical spaces – marvelously rouses the passion for reading within young readers. Just imagine your excitement if you learned that Tad Lincoln had lost his famous father’s

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