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doctoral degrees in educational leadership. Prior to that, she served as executive director of the San Francisco School Alliance, where she brought community leaders together to correct funding inequities and support education reform initiatives for the nearly 60,000 students of San Francisco Unified School District. “Terry is perhaps best known for her bold and visionary work to develop a statewide system of academic standards and assessments grounded in deep knowledge of human development and based

encouraged to interact by only scratching off three of the nine sections for them, inciting in the audience the psychological need to finish the task. Wagner on Knudsen’s presentation, “it was one of those light bulb moments, listening to Jessie’s presentation – their strategies were in line with not only our own research findings but also with what we have been learning throughout the year on effective marketing strategies.” Mason, Director of Development at Washington DECA, highlighted high school

role as co-founder and chief strategy officer before Google purchased the operating system in July 2005. Sears remained involved at Google, working on Android product development and marketing. By every account, Sears spent more than seven years creating and perfecting the modern-day smartphone. He credits PLU with helping him get there. “I came to PLU to study business,” Sears said, “but I left with a lot more than a (Bachelor of Business Administration).” Now, another former Lute has inspired his

, associate professor of religion, said to himself: “These are too good. They’re too good to die at the end of class. PLU has talent, and I have to honor it.”PLU Hebrew Idol 2016Learn more about the competition and view the films. Soon, the video assignment became a requirement for all students taking the religion course. Finitsis created a website to showcase the films and development of the Hebrew Idol competition followed shortly after. Now, the event exists as a firm PLU tradition displaying student

administrative things that I’m doing now as president, like responding to emails and communicating with donors. I’m also going to be doing a Severtson research grant, which is a social science grant. I’m going to be looking at images used in development organizations’ fundraising materials. Again, that’s quite different from my work as ASPLU president, but it’s still about how we represent people we’re trying to serve and how we do that ethically. What do you plan to do after graduation? I’m not really sure

solely for the sake of shocking or enticing the audience. For example, during the Long Night, Arya randomly kills The Night King with super assassin skills after virtually no relational development between the characters over the last eight seasons. The Battle of Winterfell also provided major, beloved characters with sudden invincibility against the undead multitude. While this was set up (in part) there wasn’t sufficient emotional weight assigned to the events of the episode, and The Long Night

valuable spring break experience that opened his eyes and shifted his perspective. Now, upon returning to PLU, he brings that perspective with him. “After witnessing these different sorts of case studies, I am now able to reflect back on how Tacoma and Parkland were created,” Dobies said, “how certain vices have played out in the development of where we live.” Megan Grover, manager of short-term study away programs, said this alternative spring break is just one of the many ways Lutes can study away

-depth lessons that “spill over outside the classroom,” she said, lessons that students carry with them through job interviews, careers and professional development. It impacts written and oral communication skills, as well as a student’s ability to engage new parts of their brains. It teaches them how to ask questions and adapt to challenges on the fly. “It has all of these built-in characteristics that live outside of your discipline and outside of your classroom,” Brown said. “It brings students

internships and pursue professional development opportunities beyond PLU’s campus to continue their academic goals. The Lutes featured below represent three stories of the hard work done by PLU students and recent graduates this summer.Kendra Saathoff ’17 By Brooke Thames ’18 Since 2014, the Krise Endowed Internship Fund has provided students with opportunities to gain experience in career fields related to their studies. This year, the Krise Internship helped one student take her education from the

advance but, “Oh, I get it,” in terms of how to create real self-driven personal development, when I see that, and most of the classes that I teach are capstone courses so I do get them at the very end. Amy Young: You get to see the one that made it. Persistence. Kory Brown: Perhaps it is that very reason that I just have tremendous hope that we will see a whole lot more success than failure. Amy Young: Good. I like that. Jp? Beat that? Jp Avila: I don’t know if I can beat that because I, too, feel