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"I was a teacher - my special area was young chil- Skokie resident Mick dren - and I worked with Jackson, 68, has never made the navy." his living as a teacher, but She said it was nice to you would never know it by find a new outlet where she visiting a classroom last could have adult conversa- month on the upper floor of tions - one of the reasons the National Louis Uni- she joined the program. versity campus in Skokie. "I'll admit I was a little Jackson read passages intimidated by the know!- from a book about health edge and the experience of care during a Sept. 28 class, other people in the class igniting an engaged discus- when I first came here' she sion with others in the room said about a literature class - all seated in an enclosed she initially took. "It was a rectangle so they could face real eye-opener. But then I each other. started speaking out more, He and 18 or so seniors in and I became more corn- the room are students - fortable." and teachers - at National She later co-coordinated Louis University's Lifelong a class on the films of Learning Institute, which is actresses Meryl Streep and based on what officials Judi Dench, and by the end, there call a "peer learning" she said, she learned so or "shared inquiry" model. MIKE ISAACS/PIONEER PRESS PHOTOS much more about these "I fell in love with this Seniors who are students at National Louis University's Lifelong Learning Institute in Skokie gather for a reception Sept. films because of shared (program) almost from Day 28to celebrate the beginning of a new year of peer-learning classes. learning in the class. One' said Jackson, a former Sondra Chester,77,of computer consultant who is in the program who come Lincolnwood, said she retired, like the majority offrom all over the area - as joined the Lifelong Learn- students. "I think it's thefar away as Hinsdale and ing Institute about eight unique way we all participa- Gurnee and as closeas years agu, and has never te ..