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Endeavors Vol.7 /Spring 2008 Message from the Dean College of Education Endeavors Vol.7 /Spring 2008 Message from the Dean I greatly appreciate the support, encouragement, and care that you have given to the College of Education this year. Your support has helped our College remain vibrant and resilient in its efforts to move forward as a premier College of Education. As you will read in this issue of Endeavors, our students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends are truly amazing individuals who are all over the world, working to improve their communities. Their passion for education is contagious, and I have been energized and enlightened in my numerous meetings with alumni and friends over the course of the year. This year has also brought tremendous transitions for the university and the college. With a new dean, new leadership in four departments and two new associate deans, we proceeded with a strategic plan for the College and continued to prepare for our National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) visit. I am very pleased Lemuel W. Watson, Dean with the progress we have made this year and highly optimistic about what our future holds. Visit www.cedu.niu.eduu for more information about our strategic plan and other initiatives. This issue of Endeavors presents various stories about how NIU’s College of Education is changing the region and the world. Our faculty continue to work to obtain funding to support their research and outreach projects, some of which are highlighted in this issue. Each project reaffi rms the College’s unique role in researching important issues and then sharing the results with the public to infl uence practice. As you’ll also see, the College is expanding its reputation as a valuable international partner and is bringing the benefi ts of those partnerships directly back to our students. Finally, we should all pause from our daily routines to give thanks for this wonderful life we have been given. The February 14, 2008, shooting reminds us that life is so very fragile. As we remember our losses and the families of those involved, we grieve deeply. But the many stories we have heard of grace and courage and compassion in the aftermath of this event have given us hope, fed our souls, and have made all of us so very proud to be a part of Northern Illinois University. Finally, the rapid pace and the energy extended to lead a College of Education are tremendous. Yet, from alumni gatherings to national board meetings, I am inspired by the stories I hear from so many of you. I am humbled and honored to be part of the NIU family, and I look forward to meeting more of you. Lemuel W. Watson, Dean Table of Contents –Feature Articles Impacting Practice and Policy Finding Their Voice .......................................................... 2 Beyond the Classroom: Student Successes Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois ................. 12 Alumni News and Events A Professor Who Changed My Life .................................. 14 Our Donors, Our Future Forward, Together Forward............................................. 17 Impacting Practice and Policy Taking Care of School Business: Illinois ASBO our leadership. Because of our affi liation with NIU, the legislators knew us and welcomed our views on a variety of issues and legislation related to education in Illinois.” Soon, Jacoby was chairing the Illinois Education Roundtable, a consortium of nineteen school leadership associations and organizations representing over 13,000 school leaders and 230,000 teachers and other personnel. He is also one of the principal contributors to the Burnham Plan for World Class Education, which calls for sweeping reform in school quality and accountability in Illinois. The Plan addresses a number of issues related to accountability, the quality and scope of education, and school funding and fi nance. With Illinois ranked 48th in the nation in terms of support for schools, the Burnham Plan seeks to boost achievement and develop a new, permanent revenue source for schools, providing a comprehensive solution to Michael Jacoby, Illinois ASBO Illinois’ ongoing school quality and educational funding crises. It has been said that in the business world, What’s next for the fi eld? Jacoby says that schools will face increasing calls for accountability and transparency. He everyone is paid in two coins: cash and anticipates that Illinois ASBO will be deeply involved in experience. facilitating and helping schools analyze how and where they are spending their money as well as how they stack The Illinois Association of School Business Offi cials up with peer districts in terms of resource utilization and (ASBO) is concerned with both. Founded in 1952, Illinois environmental issues. ASBO is an association devoted to the School Business Management profession; those in this profession are most often thought of as “budget people,” but in reality they wear many different hats. Besides school fi nance, school About Illinois ASBO business offi cials are involved in personnel issues, risk management, technology planning and transportation. There are currently 2,160 members in Illinois ASBO. Founded: 1952 “Our role is three-fold,” says executive director Michael Mission: The mission of the Illinois Jacoby. “We provide professional development for our Association of School Business Offi cials members with over 100 seminars and conferences per is to provide its members and stake- year, we act as a voice for our members in legislative holders a comprehensive range of matters, and then we also develop and administer professional development activities programs for schools, such as the Illinois Energy Consortium, the Illinois School District Liquid Asset Pool, and services. and the Procurement Card program, all of which provide Membership: 2,160 members signifi cant cost savings to districts through shared resources Executive Director: Michael A. Jacoby and streamlined services.” Jacoby took the helm of Illinois ASBO in 2006, and one Phone: (815) 753-1276 of his fi rst charges was to step up the organization’s role Email: [email protected] in the policy arena. “Success was almost immediate,” says Website: www.iasbo.org Jacoby. “People wanted us at the table and appreciated 1 Impacting Practice and Policy Finding Their VOICE How do you measure the impact of her personality that others outside of our family may not see. It conveys an understanding of her, of how she of an idea? communicates, and of what she wants for the future.” For Traci Van Laarhoven-Myers and Toni Van Laarhoven, Empowering Students it is in their sister, Steffanie’s, reaction to a multimedia As a vocational coordinator at Waubonsie Valley High presentation of music, video, pictures, and slides that School, Van Laarhoven-Myers has assisted several students represent her likes, dislikes, needs, and dreams for the in the district with preparing their presentations, and the future. students’ responses have been “amazing.” “Personally, Steffanie is a 46-year old woman who has “pretty I am excited to see the responses to the presentations,” signifi cant developmental disabilities” and cannot Van Laarhoven-Myers says. “I know how captivated and communicate in traditional ways. Through Project enthralled Steffanie was when she watched the fi rst draft MY VOICE (Multimedia for Youth to Voice Outcomes of her presentation, and I’m seeing the same reaction over Individually Created for Empowerment), project directors and over again in our students.” Toni and Traci, along with NIU Professor Jesse “Woody” Speech pathologist Danielle Kos and special education Johnson and graduate assistant Heather Johnson, have teacher Katie Neary, who are part of the Multi-Needs given Steffanie and others with developmental disabilities Team piloting the project at Neuqua Valley High School in a “voice” for communicating who they are, what they like, Naperville, Ill., are fi nding the same reactions with their what they dislike, and what they want for the future. students. “Watching Steffanie react to her presentation was so Through MY VOICE, Kos and Neary work with their amazing,” says Van Laarhoven, an associate professor students to develop presentations that the students will in the College of Education’s Department of Teaching use at their Individualized Educational Program (IEP) and Learning. “She laughed and wanted to see parts of meetings. IEP meetings, which include the student and it over and over again. It really captures the subtleties his/her parents, teachers, case manager, counselor, and related service providers, are used to gauge a student’s progress in meeting goals as well as formulate new goals and action steps for the future. Knowing the student’s needs, wants, desires, etc., is crucial in developing an effective IEP. “MY VOICE really empowers the students,” says Kos. “It helps communicate all the dimensions of their personalities. Their sense of pride is evident – when they see their entire presentation for the fi rst time, their faces just light up!” “Because of MY VOICE,” says Neary, “our students can participate more fully in their IEP. The student is the most important person in the room, and their MY VOICE presentation helps everyone involved in the IEP understand what that student would (L-R) Traci Van Laarhoven-Myers, Elaine Leslie Baker, like to accomplish during their school Steffanie Van Laarhoven, and Toni Van Laarhoven years and after.” 2 ‘Phenomenal Support’ from College of Education NIU students who are majoring in special education are also a key part of the project. Last fall, NIU students began working with 13 students with special needs at Neuqua High School, 13 students from Waubonsie Valley High School, and four students from the STEPS program (the transition program in Indian Prairie School District). “The support and extra help that Toni, Traci, Woody, Heather, and the students from NIU have provided has been phenomenal,” says Neary. “We could never have accomplished all this without them. They thought of everything, down to the smallest detail.
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