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earned a master’s in education from Pacific Lutheran University in 2014. “It’s mayhem, but I do love it. It’s chaotic, but that’s how real life is.” The payoff often comes in the midst of the commotion. That’s where Cook finds moments of clarity and “the human connection — it’s the best.” Cook and others who have completed their graduate work in education at PLU say the program equipped them to deal with both the highs and lows of classroom life. And they credit the close working relationships they

—what to pack, and just how hot would it be? But some deeper questions emerged, too: How would we be perceived? How could we best build relationships and show love to this community? Firstly, PLU is very intentional about not “dropping in” to “provide” within a community . Rather, we prepare our students’ hearts and minds, and we seek to work collaboratively with the community and to respect the residents with whom we work—celebrating culture, existing leadership and respect. This project is an

close working relationships they were able to build with experienced faculty. “I love the fact that you are dealing with people who either work in a public school setting or have had 25-plus years of doing so,” said Larry Kennedy, who completed his master’s degree in education at PLU and began teaching at Camas Prairie Elementary in the Bethel School District in 2014. Masters of Arts in EducationThe one-year program is filled with intensive coursework focused on the foundations of education. At the

example, this might mean having students identify the interactions or relationships between “X” and “Y”. Then assess the clarity and extent of what they have integrated. This can be done via such activities as: Reflective writing Incomplete but progressive cases Concept maps Some portions of Problem-Based Learning apply here Interdisciplinary cases (using authentic problems if possible) Capstone projects Work on real life examples ApplicationHere, you want to know whether students can do whatever you

values, desires, and relationships that shape our everyday engagement with nature, and about what it means to read Austen in a world on fire. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Dr. Kevin O’Brien (Pacific Lutheran University) and Dr. Danielle Spratt (CSU, Northridge) for their generous and helpful feedback on our project.

Writing Center and directed the First-Year Experience Program of the core curriculum. In 2004-2006, at a particularly delicate period of core curriculum revision, he served as Chair of the University Faculty. We await Dr. Bergman’s next book (provisional title:  Parrot, Speak) to marvel once more at the fertile imagination, empathy, and finesse he brings to discerning what’s really going on in our relationships to other species, and theirs to us. And all of us are thankful that he will still teach two

News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Featured Stories NicarAGUA The thermometer is hopping between 100 and 110 degrees in a church courtyard in El Limonal, Nicaragua, where a team from PLU is installing a well to bring clean water to the community. The trip, though, also was about building relationships— connections that ended up changing these Lutes forever. By Barbara Clements TED Fellow After hearing Katie Hunt’s story—of survival

a better grasp of what globalization is and what it means, both for us in the U.S. and for people living in Third World countries.”  For Alexis, the incredible economic disparities between the United States and Oaxaca helped to put things into perspective. After coming back to the U.S., she saw how invested people were in their material goods over relationships. Just a few hours after being in the airport in the U.S., she saw two children fighting over their mom’s iPhone and thought to herself

oneself effectively and creatively, to think critically, to discern and formulate values, to interact with others, and to understand the world from various perspectives. A general education at Pacific Lutheran University affirms the relationships among rigorous academic inquiry, human flourishing in a diverse world, and a healthy environment. Such an education requires first and foremost a faculty of exceptional scholar-teachers, committed to educating the whole student, and understanding that

Please note: The Commons’ serving stations close at 1:00pm. 1:30pm – 2:30pm: Workshops All workshops take place in the Anderson University Center The Reverend Rick Jaech The Bible and inter-Religious Relationships Chris Knutzen West Dr. Cynthia Kittredge Poetry and the Scriptures Regency Room Dr. Gordon Lathrop Biblical Images Shaping Worship and Preaching SCC Dr. Gail Ramshaw Praying for the Whole World: The Weekly Crafting of the Intercessions 201 Dr. Barbara Rossing Eco-Reformation & 2017: Pope