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was younger but haven’t played for a long time. Sometimes I will sing a melodic line when coaching piano students to try to get a point across about phrasing, but I don’t have very good control of my voice, so it doesn’t always work… I feel much more comfortable to play piano! Can you please name some of the festivals you’ve participated in and concerts you’ve performed? I’ve performed in festivals, honors recitals and a Washington state conference through the Oregon and Washington Music Teacher

patients but also with themselves.”  This business includes helping create a curriculum breaking down barriers for diversity, equity and inclusion between healthcare workers and their patients. “I think there’s a lot of history that hasn’t really been touched, unfortunately, and a lot of the biases that we are seeing in healthcare today kind of relate to that history,” she said, “… so I’m just hoping to be a mentor and teacher to new nurses so they can start their practice off on the right foot

Politics and the Limits of Law “Feminist Gloria Anzaldúa [1942-2004] was a guiding force in the Chicano and Chicana movement and lesbian/queer theory. She was a poet, activist, theorist, and teacher who lived from September 26, 1942, to May 15, 2004. Her writings blend styles, cultures, and languages, weaving together poetry, prose, theory, autobiography, and experimental narratives. She described herself as a “chicana dyke-feminist, tejana patlache poet, writer and cultural theorist,” and these

be full of nesting anxiety and newborn babies! It will surely be a ride to remember. I do plan to continue my schooling to become a high school art teacher but first, my husband and I will do some moving around for the army once he returns home from Afghanistan in October. Welcome to the “real world” right?! Chris Caseman – Master of Arts in education Chris Caseman ’12 is from Spanaway, Wash. Why PLU? I wanted to come to PLU because of its location and my prior experience with the campus. I fell

career perfect for those who are seeking a new position that will offer meaning and fulfillment. As an individual entering teaching as a second career, you’ll have opportunities to bring your real-word experience and knowledge to the classroom. Like many other fields, the education field is facing challenges today — budget cuts, teacher shortages, the global pandemic of 2020 — but every single day, the educators working in America’s school system prove themselves to be resilient, compassionate, and

higher quality students if it is a little harder to be admitted.True.  During our enrollment challenge of the last couple of years, we have maintained two important indicators of quality: GPA/SAT and Net Tuition Revenue Per Student.  We didn’t sacrifice quality to bring in the numbers we wanted; we stuck to our commitment to quality and preparation. *Note: All comments are moderated If we add new graduate programs does this mean that we are taking away other graduate programs?So far, the feeling

anchors for the school district’s summer program, and with a special eye toward hiring new alumni like Meyer and Allen who had done their student-teaching senior projects Namibia. The cross-cultural experience they both received in Africa made them ideal job candidates for the excursion to Alaska. After the summer-school adventure ends, both already have interviews lined up for the school year, they said. “The time in Namibia really made my future clear,” Allen said. “I know I want to be a teacher

my friend and I noticed a plane flying really low over our school. It was low enough that it was worth calling over some of the other girls to point out before our teacher called our attention to our assigned seats. Within 20-30 minutes of class starting, our headmistress came over the loudspeaker and asked all of the teachers to turn on the news in the classrooms, and we watched in horror as the events unfurled before our eyes. Most of us didn’t hear from our parents in the city for at least 48

maintain such a vision of education’s purpose. To start with the self-honesty. If my purpose as a teacher is to invite my students to walk into the gap between their particular Flatland and journey of intensification into particularity, the very act of teaching requires that I do the same. lt requires that each time l walk into the classroom I attend cognitively and affectively to the chasm between what l desire for my students and what is possible in a course as students pursue their own desires

Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press) and three collections of short nonfiction—In Short, In Brief and Short Takes—and the anthology Brief Encounter.  Her awards included an NEA fellowship in poetry, two Pushcart Prizes in nonfiction and recognition as a distinguished teacher of adults.  She had the distinction of being called—by Newsday—the Evel Knievel of literature. Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7:15 p.m. Bernard Cooper, The Judith Kitchen Visiting Writer. Cooper has written two collections of memoirs