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Montana’s legislative education bills and chats through the Office of Public Instruction about resources and supports they provide Montana teachers. Finally, how do you remember your four years at PLU and is there a teaching concept or philosophy you learned as an education student that stands out now, in retrospect? PLU is where I learned how to learn. I’d spent my entire education career playing school. It was in college that learning became authentic and meaningful. It felt like my learning had a

words.” That’s part of the package at James Sales. Learning should be fun, all the educators agree. It’s not just dry instruction to meet standards. That is part of it, but so much more goes into educating the whole student. They take that concept – “educating the whole student” – very seriously here. After all, they are all there for the same reason: “the kids.” That philosophy is one of engaging students, and that also means fun. It doesn’t seem commonplace for a teacher at James Sales to remain

is at once characterized by excellence, and as always a work in progress. Yes, all of us who care about PLU have been tasked to participate in this important work. It is work grounded in our religious faith, shaped by our Lutheran heritage and tradition, informed by enduring educational values, and dedicated to good and humane purpose. May God bless all that we do in this new academic year for the calling we hold is both a remarkable gift and a sacred trust. This article was adapted from PLU

familiar I am with a source material, the more reason I argue with an adaptation. I am not suggesting that an adaptation has to be faithful to the source material. Rather, if it is going to experiment with the original material, I expect the creators to be intentional, historically informed, and meaningful in their efforts. The use of contemporary language in this adaptation came across as pandering to the audience, and while I don’t mind the language on its own, it didn’t seem to go anywhere. Both the

forefront. Sitting on a PLU student-hosted hair panel in 2016 caused Taiwo and Hambrick to think more about black women’s natural hair experiences at PWIs. Their personal experiences going natural also informed their research. Hambrick started transitioning to natural hair in 2015, after noticing the beauty in other black women’s natural styles. She said her security in her identity made the choice a simple one. “I was very comfortable in who I am, professionally and personally, and I couldn’t care less

, communicate and use information and data,” she explains. “We can also bring new or innovative approaches to the way we do our work by bringing people together across traditionally unconventional lines and supplying them with quality data and information so that new ideas, new approaches, and new programs can emerge, and informed decisions can be made.” For McConnell, it makes a lot of sense that a place like PLU would be home to such a creative and forward-thinking role. “PLU has always been a place with

examine the personal and big-picture capacity to withstand and overcome the stress and devastation related to trauma. “There is building interest in understanding the conditions that make it possible for individuals, communities, organizations, institutions and organisms to overcome adversity,” said Tamara Williams, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. “While varied, the events and programs that will be featured as part of

final handbook. “Many of them had never ridden public transit at all,” Kraig said of her students. The bus passes were free for students; some of the proceeds came from the provost’s Innovative Teaching Grant, reserved for faculty members with spur-of-the-moment ideas or out-of-the-ordinary methods that promise improved instruction. The rest came out of Kraig’s own pocket. The class and partnership were brand new, and Kraig said she couldn’t have done it without the four teaching assistants. The

interests. “We’re not going to change being excellent at what we do,” Bennett said of SOAC, stressing that he’s confident the FJC will make informed recommendations with integrity and professionalism. “Our faculty are having important discussions about what we do and how we meet the needs of students now and in the future. It’s healthy to have these discussions.” Ceynar, the faculty chair, agrees. “I’m feeling pretty hopeful,” Ceynar said. “We’re going to be smaller, but I think the essence of PLU will

in England, where she earned a master’s of science after blending her PLU degrees—and her life experience—into the emerging field of paleopathology: the study of disease, health, trauma and diet in human biology in ancient societies. “I want to look at evidence of cancer in archaeological remains, and add to a dataset that’s virtually nonexistent,” Hunt said. “At that point I wouldn’t have even called it a field—now it is, but a very, very small field.” A small field, maybe—but one with