Tag: Summer Teacher Education Partnership for Urban Preparation

Homeless teen is educator because of donors’ dollars

Dakota Pawlicki

Dakota Pawlicki would later graduate from Illinois State debt-free thanks to scholarships. Today he’s an educator. “ISU felt so much like home to me because it was like the community that got me there,” he says.

Forging new pathways to urban teacher preparation

Dan Zummo headshot

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson’s words of encouragement serve to challenge the reader’s entrepreneurial spirit and leadership. When our nation’s courageous educators become trail makers, they help inspire others.