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giant universities lacks the critical-thinking skills and interpersonal savvy offered at PLU—a more-integrative experience exhibited, in part, by the speed-dating exercise. It seems to have paid off. “Both the Chinese and the PLU students told me afterward they thought it was really fun,” Meyer said, and the visitors’ director of teacher recruitment and program coordinator said they enjoyed the PLU activity more than the lecture they heard at a much larger university. Read Previous Lute Plays Piano
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PLU from as far away as Delhi, India (Shiva), Mexico City (Lomnitz and Villoro) and Oslo, Norway (Grete Brochmann). Others are industry and thought leaders from the U.S. and Seattle-Tacoma region, including representatives from a variety of international disaster-relief agencies, Lincoln High School teacher and PLU alumnus Joshua Cushman, Nisqually Indian Tribe Community Garden Program Supervisor Caitlin Krenn and Freedom Education Project Puget Sound Executive Director Tanya Erzen. The wide
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always dreamed about. I’ve realized that maybe a lot of people can be influenced by what I’ve done, and mentoring the next generation is something I’d like to do.” Read Previous PLU announces Top Ten Military Friendly Spouse School designation Read Next Mathematics major Lindsey Clark ’24 is a Noyce scholar and future teacher COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS
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Franklin Pierce School District joins innovative Seed Teacher program to promote equitable education Franklin Pierce School District (FPS) announces it is joining the innovative Seed Teachers program , a transformative initiative developed by Tacoma-based nonprofit Degrees of Change in partnership with Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). “The Seed Teachers program is a perfect fit for our district. It creates… November 21, 2023 News, Announcements, Accolades
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Teach 253: PLU partnership with Tacoma Public Schools supports aspiring teachers TACOMA, WASH. (June 7, 2018) — Brittany Bowen ’18 had barely started school when she chose her life’s work. By the age of 8, she’d decided to become a teacher. Although she set her career goal early in life, Bowen’s path to a Pacific Lutheran… June 7, 2018 Alumni, Internships, Career
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Mathematics major Lindsey Clark ’24 is a Noyce scholar and future teacher Lindsey Clark ’24 came to PLU knowing it was where she wanted to be. But Clark—a double major in mathematics and gender, sexuality, and race studies (GSRS)—says PLU challenged and changed her and expanded her worldview in ways she never before considered on her way… April 2, 2024 Research & Academics
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Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development practices In Kwangali and Oshindonga, widely spoken languages in Namibia, “Uukumwe” means “togetherness.” For six teachers in Washington and seven teachers from Namibia, the word personifies the relationship-building that lies at the heart of education. “It was a vision that was bubbling in my mind because… September 28, 2023 Alumni, Internships, Career
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Dayton Campbell-Harris ’16: Fighting for voters’ rights Originally, Dayton Campbell-Harris ’16 planned for a career as a high school history teacher and high school football coach — he played football for PLU when Scott Westering was an inspirational coach. But during his junior year at PLU, a social work class moved Campbell-… September 8, 2023 Alumni, Internships, CareerResoLute
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had an amazing teacher who taught the class, essentially, like a college course. She gave us a lot of freedom, she let us guide how we could learn, what was best for us. Also let us guide what we covered, which was fantastic. That class is what really opened my eyes to majoring in biology.Learn more about the PLU Department of BiologyCollege was always important to my parents. Neither of them went to college and it was always clear growing up that the expectation was that we were going to go to
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within this period full-time service in all institutions of higher education, but subject to the proviso that when, after a term of probationary service in one or more institutions, a teacher is appointed to Pacific Lutheran University it may be agreed in writing that this appointment provides for a probationary period of up to six years. Upon appointment to full-time service as regular faculty at the rank of assistant professor or a higher rank, a person shall be granted up to four years
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