Metcalf School partnership provides middle-level teacher candidates window into world of emerging adolescents 

College students and middle school students sit in small groups at tables playing games

Halle Modloff, Annalina Nelson, Brian Tondi ’21, Justina McGuinn, and their classmates are all part of Dr. Meghan Kessler’s course Introduction to Young Adolescent Development and Middle Level Schools. Kessler, an assistant professor of middle level education in the School of Teaching and Learning, has partnered with Mike Jones ’96, M.S.E. ’18, and Andy Goveia ’13, M.S. ’18, both teachers at Metcalf School, to provide her teacher candidates with an immersive and meaningful semester. 

A/P and CS Council merger: Answers to questions

Schroeder Hall in the fall

Previous articles summarize the history of the proposal for a Staff Council, the reasons that led the CS and A/P councils to support it, and the overall structure and role of the Staff Council. Now we will address typical questions we’ve received about the merger.

Second CTK Game Jam promotes creativity, social impact in game design

A student talks to two professors and a group of students while presenting a video game on a large screen

More than 30 students from the School of Creative Technologies (CTK), the Wonsook Kim School of Art, and the School of Information Technology collaborated in small teams to create eight games in just 72 hours during Illinois State University’s second CTK Game Jam, October 25-28, in the Center for the Visual Arts.