Thomas Metcalf School

Celebrate a Redbird Educator!

multiple women stand in front of a red backdrop holding award plaques

Nominations are open for the Redbird Educator Teaching Awards which celebrate outstanding PK-12 teachers who are Illinois State alumni and faculty associates at the ISU Laboratory Schools.

Traveling maps at Metcalf make social studies matter

A male third-grade student walks on a large floor-sized map of the state of Illinois while five female college students and nine 3rd grade students stand around the edge of the map. Nine of the onlookers have their right arms raised.

Dr. Irenea Walker and Kimberly Carthans partnered to make space for geography by implementing the Traveling Maps project in a third-grade classroom at Thomas Metcalf School.

Metcalf School sixth-graders design, build, and donate a tiny house to homeless shelter village in Bloomington

Photo courtesy of Emily Bollinger, WGLT. Two Metcalf students and their teacher stand in front of their finished tiny home project.

Metcalf School sixth-graders designed and built a tiny house in their makerspace class that Home Sweet Home Ministries (HSHM) will put in its new shelter village.

Camp site: College of Arts and Sciences units welcome youth campers to explore careers in science

young children huddled around a water table

Forty-three kids ranging in ages from 5 to 13 who attended Metcalf’s Camp Wildcat were treated to a day of programming provided by Illinois State University.

Redbird Explorers: Where kids can explore their passions at Illinois State

Metcalf students collaborate on a science project.

This summer, Redbird Explorers wants to help get children excited for their future by finding and exploring their passions in the classroom! Metcalf School is partnering with faculty and staff at Illinois State University, reimagining what their summer camp can do for you.

‘Teacher of teachers’ Dr. Normand Madore leaves lasting legacy helping students in their pursuit of a career in education

As his life was coming to a close, Dr. Normand Madore shared with his only child that he wanted to create an endowed scholarship to help the next generation of elementary education students.

School of Teaching and Learning alumna Jessica Wentz ’11 honored with ‘Oscar of Teaching’

A woman with blonde hair smiles as she receives a hug from a woman with brown hair. They are surrounded by five other people who are clapping and one who is holding an oversized blue check for $25,000.

The principal at Lincoln Grade School in Washington sent out an email saying the state superintendent would be visiting to celebrate test scores and asked that the teachers not wear jeans that Friday. But that wasn’t the real reason behind the dress code, or the visit.

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