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Jani Hitchen ’96 has lived in Parkland for more than 30 years. “I moved here to go to PLU and never left,” she says with a chuckle. Hitchen majored in education and enjoyed a long career teaching in Lakewood’s Clover Park School District and Spanaway…
Parkland’s Advocate Posted by: Logan Seelye / September 3, 2024 Image: Jani Hitchen ’96 visits with constituents. (Photo courtesy of Pierce County) September 3, 2024 By Zach Powers '10, MFA '24Resolute EditorJani Hitchen ’96 has lived in Parkland for more than 30 years. “I moved here to go to PLU and never left,” she says with a chuckle.Hitchen majored in education and enjoyed a long career teaching in Lakewood’s Clover Park School District and Spanaway and Graham’s Bethel School District. She
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The 11th Biennial Wang Center symposium, “ The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being ,” will be held at Pacific Lutheran University on March 7-8. Hosted by PLU’s Wang Center for Global and Community-Engaged Education , the two-day conference will bring together academics,…
held at Pacific Lutheran University on March 7-8. Hosted by PLU’s Wang Center for Global and Community-Engaged Education, the two-day conference will bring together academics, activists and practitioners whose life’s work engages the concept of social connection in ways that increase understanding, model behaviors and actions that facilitate human reconnection and reweave community for collective well-being.The year’s symposium responds to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Hallegere Murthy’s call to
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 28, 2017)- As Michelle Obama congratulated a room full of healthy-campus advocates last month at the White House, one of the three Lutes in attendance couldn’t contain her emotions. “When she stepped in the room, I immediately started crying,” said Tolu Taiwo,…
congratulated a room full of healthy-campus advocates last month at the White House, one of the three Lutes in attendance couldn’t contain her emotions.“When she stepped in the room, I immediately started crying,” said Tolu Taiwo, prevention coordinator for the Center for Gender Equity. Taiwo was visiting Washington, D.C., on behalf of Pacific Lutheran University’s Health and Wellness Committee, which recently won the Healthy Campus Challenge along with 60 other institutions from around the country. The
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Originally Published 1996 Introduction Like other disciplines such as English and Sociology, Foreign Languages also have a history in the United States which is linked to the changing values of society as a whole. The discipline of foreign language teaching has evolved over the last…
reversal, and our own exercises. A theoretical possibility to explore is the separation of evaluation and teaching, divorcing the students’ relationship with the teacher from attempts to measure learning. Another suggestion for alleviating the strain of coeducational classroom dynamics is to return to a system of single-sex education. Other suggestions for solutions will arise as we continue to experiment, disseminate information on successful models both here and abroad, and build on the results of
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Rick Barot is a highly acclaimed national figure in poetry whose 2020 collection “The Galleons” was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s also a dedicated creative writing teacher, serving as an English professor at Pacific Lutheran University and the director of the Rainier…
Professor Rick Barot discusses being longlisted for the National Book Award and teaching creative writing during a pandemic Posted by: bennetrr / December 3, 2020 December 3, 2020 By By Zach Powers ‘10PLU Marketing and CommunicationsRick Barot is a highly acclaimed national figure in poetry whose 2020 collection “The Galleons” was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s also a dedicated creative writing teacher, serving as an English professor at Pacific Lutheran University and
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Mental Health Counseling Intern | Counseling Services | agibson@plu.edu | 253-535-7206 | Ara Gibson is currently enrolled in Seattle University’s Master of Arts in Psychology program.
Ara Gibson Mental Health Counseling Intern she/her Phone: 253-535-7206 Email: agibson@plu.edu Office Location: Anderson University Center - 300 Professional Biography Education Master of Arts, Psychology, Seattle University, in process Bachelor of Science, Public Relations, University of Florida, 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Trauma-Informed Yoga Training - Yoga Behind Bars, Conferred 2020 Trauma-Informed Yoga Training - Off the Mat. Into the world, Conferred 2018 Advanced E-RYT - 8 Limbs
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The Center for Continued Nursing Learning (CCNL) provides excellent continuing education and professional development for nurses and other interested health care professionals.
ALL CURRENT OFFERINGSQuality Continuing Education for NursesThe Center for Continued Nursing Learning (CCNL) provides excellent continuing education and professional development for nurses and other interested health care professionals. We offer multiple programs that provide the opportunity to gain contact hours and clock hours. Our professional and educational standards, our innovative responses to changing health care markets, and our distinguished history of educating students for lives of
Center for Continued Nursing Learning12180 Park Ave S Tacoma, WA 98447-0003 ______________ Pacific Lutheran University Center for Continued Nursing Learning is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. In addition, PLU CCNL is a provider of in-service education clock hours by the Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) of the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Olympia, WA. -
The Tacoma Refugee Choir, an important support and resource for Kaelin Lor, History major and '23 alum, recently released the video, Everyone Can Love Someone and Kaelin has shared it with us.
endorsements in secondary History and English Language Arts. She was initially interested in education because of the possibility of staying in a history-related field and because of the many educators who had made a positive impact on her life. Graduating with her masters in 2020, Abbie was hired by Sound Christian Academy (SCA), formerly Tacoma Baptist, as a history teacher. She currently teaches every SCA high school history class including World History, US History, Advanced Placement US History
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Education Program Director, Foss Waterway Seaport Museum, Tacoma | Our Thirsty Planet | Janice Adams develops curriculum for and coordinates all K-20 education programming for the Foss Waterway Seaport’s land and boat-based education programs, summer family programs and education events, and she coordinates with higher education institutions for integrated learning experiences.
Janice Adams Education Program Director, Foss Waterway Seaport Museum, Tacoma Biography Biography Janice Adams develops curriculum for and coordinates all K-20 education programming for the Foss Waterway Seaport’s land and boat-based education programs, summer family programs and education events, and she coordinates with higher education institutions for integrated learning experiences. She has developed learning activities that support the Seaport’s Marine and Environmental Science Program
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Community Director for Stuen & Ordal Halls | Residential Life | dgonzales@plu.edu | 253-535-7700 | Dream is originally from Southern CA but has lived and traveled all over the world.
Dream Gonzales, LAT, ATC Community Director for Stuen & Ordal Halls she/her Phone: 253-535-7700 Email: dgonzales@plu.edu Office Location:Stuen Hall - Room 117 Professional Biography Education Master of Education, Student Development Administration, Seattle University Bachelor of Science, Athletic Training, University of La Verne Responsibilities Campus Life Responsibilities Supervise the Ordal and Stuen RA’s Support the following Learning Communities in Ordal & Stuen Halls: First in the Family
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