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Dr. Paula Hooper Featured on NPR
8/16/23 by Caitlin Dunlap Sikes Dr. Paula Hooper, Assistant Professor of Instruction for MSED, was featured on WBEZ Chicago's NPR segment Reset. She was asked to weigh in on summer learning loss, also known as "summer slide."
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You Belong Here: Building a Supportive Classroom Environment in a Post-Pandemic World
8/14/23 by Erin Swank This unit is designed to cover the first five weeks of school for a 7th-grade English class. Prepared by Alumna Erin Swank (M.S. Ed, Class of 2021).
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MSED Announces New English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education Endorsements
6/26/23 by Caitlin Dunlap Sikes Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Education Program is thrilled to introduce two exciting new endorsements: English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education. Read to learn more!
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