What Dr. Deborah MacPhee is most proud of in her seven-year tenure as director of the Mary and Jean Borg Center for Reading and Literacy is the development and growth of the tutoring program. She stepped down May 15 to focus on literacy education.
When Dr. Sara Harms was a cooperating teacher in a high school classroom, it was a good experience, but she never really felt like she knew what she should be doing. That became the seed for her dissertation.
The International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS) is an organization for laboratory schools and partnerships around the world. I was invited to join its board of trustees when I served as acting director of the Illinois State University Laboratory Schools (Metcalf School and University High School).
Faculty from Illinois State University’s School of Teaching and Learning and the Department of English have been awarded the editorship of the international peer-reviewed journal, Literacy Research: Theory, Method and Practice (LR:TMP) of the Literacy Research Association (LRA).
Bilingual education candidates and faculty came together at the beginning of the spring semester to share space during the first annual Bilingual Education Social. The idea came from students who voiced the need to build community within the College of Education. Cithlali Vazquez, a bilingual cohort candidate, was grateful for the support from faculty and