Zack Gilbert, M.S. ’07, emphasizes playful learning in the classroom to store knowledge into students’ long-term memory.
Meet the @EdGamer Zack Gilbert

Zack Gilbert, M.S. ’07, emphasizes playful learning in the classroom to store knowledge into students’ long-term memory.
Student-athletes in swimming and diving show resolve on path to becoming teachers.
Associate Professor Deborah MacPhee is a sought-after literacy expert, particularly for her research in retrospective miscue analysis.
How Redbird Alex Wazny followed her dream all the way to Africa.
Jamie Esler has studied glaciers in the arctic and won the Idaho Teacher of the Year award.
Mentor-mentee relationships are among the program enhancements of principal preparation at ISU.
Meteorites, dinosaur bones, and World War II relics are among thousands of items in the shippable museum being built by new elementary teacher Andrew Frey ’18.
By the time elementary education major Lauren Sulkowski finished her freshman year, her accomplishments rivaled those of a beginning teacher.
Illinois State’s faculty and staff have been integral to developing high standards for principals preparation in the state, and Illinois now serves as a national model.
The story of a state teacher of the year who almost missed her calling.