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  • Total semester credits: MAE with Elementary Teacher Certification: 38 MAE with Secondary Teacher Certification: 36 PLU’s MAE with Residency Certification program is a full-time program.

    , Development, and Learning (2) SPED 580: Foundations and Instructional Strategies for Students with Disabilities (4) Fall Semester (September – December): Students will spend days split between a K-12 classroom and attending classes at PLU. Please consult the fall schedule for specific times. EDUC 562: Schools and Society (2) EDUC 563A: Integrating Seminar: Technology Embedded Instructional Design (2) EDUC 565: Elementary Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies (2) EDUC 566: Elementary Math and Science

  • 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,

    themselves. Brown says that “Fostering a safe environment for students to develop critical thinking skills and to have critical conversations” is fundamental to her approach. As an undergraduate student at University of Washington, Brown served as a tutor and was moved by the need for teachers that represented the students they were teaching. Realizing that she enjoyed tutoring, Brooke enrolled in PLU’s Master of Arts in Education program where she began her journey to become the educator she is today

  • If you are currently employed or have strong relationships with a school, we will work creatively with you to explore the possibility of an appropriate internship where you are.

    . One seminar course on Saturdays. Please consult the spring schedule for specific times. SPED 520: Teaching Students with Special Needs (2) EDUC 563B: Integrating Seminar: Internship (2) EDUC 568: Internship in Teaching (6) Remaining coursework is to be finished within 3 years of the start of the program EDUC 510: Teaching Reading and Language Arts (3) EDUC 562: Schools and Society (2) EDUC 563A: Application of Technology Tools for Teachers (2) EPSY 566: Advanced Cognition, Development, & Learning

  •               As one of the annual priorities for the 2023-24 academic year, President’s Council seeks to align available resources in order to in to invest in individual and community well-being. The critical first step was to collect perspectives from faculty and staff in a survey. As a reminder, this...

                  As one of the annual priorities for the 2023-24 academic year, President’s Council seeks to align available resources in order to in to invest in individual and community well-being. The critical first step was to collect perspectives from faculty and staff in a survey. As a reminder, this survey was designed to align with the U.S. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-being. Based on this research, the survey will incorporate five different areas of

  • Amy Hillboe has worked in relief and development for 24 years. She has worked for Catholic Relief Services since 1993 and has spent the past eight years focused on disaster risk reduction, climate

    Amy HilleboeAmy Hillboe has worked in relief and development for 24 years. She has worked for Catholic Relief Services since 1993 and has spent the past eight years focused on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and resilience. Prior to this, she worked primarily on disaster response and recovery programs. Amy was CRS’ DRR Advisor for the Emergency Capacity Building Project and is a co author of the Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change

  • Check out this article about Volleyball's Jessica Herklotz and her experience studying away in Oaxaca over J-Term 2023!

    On March 7-8, 2024, the 11th Wang Center Symposium will bring together academics, activists, and practitioners whose life’s work addresses what the U.S. Surgeon General has referred to as a critical health concern and a key determinant to community well-being. Learn More Congratulations to the 2024 Photo and Video Contest Winners! Check out the winners from this year and previous years! More Global Education Topics Volleyball's Jessica Herklotz Studies Away in Oaxaca over J-Term (March 21, 2023

  • By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies. We are delighted to announce the graduation of seven Innovation Studies minors this May, and we wish them well in all future endeavors. This year’s graduates include Sage Allen, Anastasia Bidne, Megan Goninan, Robert Helle, Benjamin Leschensky, Michelle…

    course (Innovation Seminar), in addition to supporting coursework in design thinking, ethics, business principles, and the history of technology. Now in its third year, Innovation Studies currently has 45 students enrolled in the program. Congratulations to all 2021 graduates! Sage Allen Sage Allen majored in Strategic Communication with two supporting minors in Innovation Studies and Specialized Marketing. His next step is commissioning as an officer into the Army Reserves and pursuing a career in

  • By Sarah Cornell-Maier When I think of social innovation, the first thing that comes to mind is a creative combination of new social practices and existing infrastructure. Some useful examples include certified fair trade organizations, which provide equity in trading relationships through an integrated supply chain, and the new Enable Talk smartphone app, which allows...

    peers. Sarah Cornell-Maier ’19 What is Social Innovation? Social innovation differs from other types of innovation in that it uniquely works to solve issues that communities face in the social realm. At Pacific Lutheran University, we begin by investigating political, social, environmental, and economic challenges, and then we apply attributes like critical thinking, inventiveness, and sustainable business design to imagine solutions to the problems. Social innovations can challenge human rights

  • Senior Manager for Development Studies, Environmental Programs, Port of Tacoma; will join Connie Baker | Our Thirsty Planet | Tony Warfield has practiced in the environmental field for over twenty years in the Puget Sound region.

    Tony Warfield Senior Manager for Development Studies, Environmental Programs, Port of Tacoma; will join Connie Baker Biography Biography Tony Warfield has practiced in the environmental field for over twenty years in the Puget Sound region. He has worked for the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Boeing Company, the Washington State Department of Transportation and most recently the Port of Tacoma where he serves as the Senior Manager for Development Services in the Port’s

  • A year after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University, Mark Carrato ‘94 had been island hopping around rural southwestern Japan teaching English to junior high school students. But now he had a decision to make—return to the United States and begin the law school he had…

    continue to teach for another year?“What are they going to put on your headstone? ‘Mark worked one extra year?’” a friend asked him during that time in the summer of 1996. It was “damn good advice,” Carrato remembers. He let his law school deferral go, continued teaching in Japan for another year, and then traveled the world for nearly 16 months, ending up in Ecuador teaching again.  Now a foreign service officer at the helm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power