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  • PLU is creating a campus experience that helps our students thrive by supporting resources and experiential programs that cultivate the mind, body and spirit of each of our students. After all, it takes a healthy Lute to build a healthy community. Many of these resources…

    groups and spaces of belonging, and formal and informal mentors  Finally, with faculty, they are investing in learning trauma-informed pedagogy and care for our students and selves. Let's keep the conversation going! Read the additional Bjug Day Q&A's Bjug Day Q&A: ScholarshipsBjug Day Q&A: AthleticsBjug Day Q&A: Academics Read Previous BJUG DAY: Q&A with Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Read Next THE PEOPLE’S GATHERING: Truth Tellin’ About Critical Race Theory COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated

  • At a summer 2023 banquet launching the Uukumwe Project, Sanet Steenkamp, executive director of Namibia’s Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, advised a group of Namibian and American teachers not to hold back. “The children,” she said, “deserve for us not to hold back.” Steenkamp’s…

    appreciated the opportunity to provide leadership coaching. “I really enjoyed working with Lionel,” Gannon says. “Building him up, helping him see all the positives, helping him realize what he wanted for his building and what his next steps were.” The collective N/a'an ku sê and Uukumwe team outside N/a'an ku sê Primary School after a week of professional development, goal setting, and collaboration. Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development practicesRead moreAt

  • Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Natalie Burton ’13 plays a Bach piece on the piano for master pianist Vladimir Feltsman during Portland Piano International’s Up Close With the Masters series. (Photo courtesy of Portland Piano International) A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13…

    China as you pursue your master’s? I’m applying to music schools in China so I can be immersed in the Chinese language and still continue my studies in piano. I am interested in Chinese interpretation work, and of course I want to continue teaching and playing piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese

  • October is LGBTQIA+ History Month. While we encourage engaging with these topics year-round, October is a special time to reflect on the history of LGBTQIA+ movements, moments, and iconic figures. In this exhibit, the Center for DJS, in collaboration with the PLU Library, is choosing…

    woman.”” “She was an activist-author who never shied away from difficult subjects, but instead, embraced them in all their complexity. Lorde was a critic of second-wave feminism, helmed by white, middle-class women, and wrote that gender oppression was not inseparable from other oppressive systems like racism, classism and homophobia. She has made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing.” – from https

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    Continuing Education Online EDUC 977J Keeping Students Safe (5088) 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 905 Pedagogy Assessment 5 Continuing Education Online EDUC 950 Intro to Bilingual/ESL Ed 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 851 Program Models for Diverse Stu 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 951 Program Models for Diverse Stu 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 952 Cultural/Linguistic Pedagogy 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 953 Language Acquisition Fndts 3 Continuing Education Online EDUC 954

  • Instructor: Dr. Gina Gillie Office: MBR 339 Office Hours: by appointment Phone: 253-535-7607 (x7607) E-mail: gilliegc@plu.edu

    Syllabus Horn LessonsInstructor: Dr. Gina Gillie Office: MBR 339 Office Hours: by appointment Phone: 253-535-7607 (x7607) E-mail: gilliegc@plu.eduCourse DescriptionIn horn lessons, I will focus on you and where you would like to go with the horn. All students will cover the basics in technique and repertoire, while music majors (and specifically performance majors) will delve deeper into the study of horn related pedagogy. All students will be encouraged to explore many of the vast and unique

  • Semester-long Themed Events Begin Feb. 12 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The semester beginning Feb. 4 at Pacific Lutheran University takes on a special focus…

    forensics pedagogy. It also offers a perspective to take on a famous encounter: the 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. One of the foremost scholars on Lincoln, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern Dr. David Zarefskey, shares his expertise as part of the 2015 SOAC Focus Series: Perspective. He will discuss Lincoln’s argumentative strategies to convert public sentiment on the complicated issue of slavery. 6 p.m. Studio Theater, Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Free

  • By the time she earned the university’s highest degree, she left with more than a shiny new title. The nurse practitioner for Providence Medical Group at Hawks Prairie Internal Medicine in Lacey,

    as a background where students are learning and then applying,” said Mark Mulder, assistant professor of business. “This project also incorporates service learning, which is a big part of PLU’s pedagogy.” Full Story of Skagit Valley ProjectTraining Therapists in Community Clinic at PLUThe Master of Marriage and Family Therapy Program runs a Couples and Family Therapy Clinic on campus. It offers affordable care for the local community, and also provides therapist-in-training the opportunity to

  • Listed below are some of the services and support provided by Instructional Technologies. Use the tabs at the top to access: Topics - Topical listing of services; click the Topic to expand it A-Z -

    , turning technologies, receiversClickers (Sakai Integration)253-535-7525 • sakai@plu.edu • Support infoImport Turning Technologies clicker response sessions into Sakai courses.clickers, audience response systems, turning technologies, receivers, sakai, gradebook, import, session dataConsultations253-535-7525 • itech@plu.edu • Support infoConsultations about digital media projects or technology used in teaching and learning.consultation, project, digital media, instructional technologies, pedagogy

  • This week we sat down with Dr. Zachary Lyman to talk about everything from recording issues and Bach, to the new Lyric Brass CD and everyone involved in this project. Read on! What can we find in this CD? The CD contains 4 works by…

    along surprisingly well with each other given the potentially volatile combination of Red Sox, Yankees, and Mariners fans. Zachary Lyman is Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), where he teaches classroom music, directs the trumpet ensemble, coaches chamber music, and performs with the Lyric Brass Quintet, and was the 2017 recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy from the