Stanley Gillespie ’15, earned his bachelor’s degree in middle level education in December 2015 and serves as a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Nimitz Middle School in the Northeast School District in San Antonio. He studied in Taipei, Taiwan, during the summer of 2015. Through the “Jepsen Challenge,” your donations large and small help aspiring
Andrea Delgado is a 2011 Illinois State education alumna who is now pursuing her graduate degree in education at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Spain. She began her teaching career as an early childhood educator in Chicago Public Schools. Delgado received a Jepsen International Scholars Program Endowment scholarship to participate in a 4-week trip
llinois State University was recently recognized as a national leader in educator preparation by College Factual in its spring 2016 rankings.
The spring issue of the Redbird Scholar is now available online and in print.
Redbird Scholars published novels, math books, textbooks, and other works in 2015.
Each issue we will be using this space to shine a spotlight on a different research center at Illinois State University. First up is the Office of the Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
Illinois State’s Center for the Study of Education Policy is using a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support the Illinois Partnerships Advance Rigorous Training (IL-PART) project.
Richard Miller, director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh, will lead an interactive seminar on creating a more racially just campus environment.
The final report of the Illinois School Leadership Advisory Council was released. It was made possible through funding by The Wallace Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.
A team of Illinois State researchers is conducting an innovative project in elementary schools to determine whether digital mapping can help students improve their spatial thinking skills.
