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your gut. And that’s the hope for the course — not just impressive karate moves (though you are welcome to join the Karate Club full time), but to give people basic defense skills and the confidence to use them.Learn self defense and martial arts The five-week self defense course continues through October every Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. Email advocacy@plu.edu to learn more. The PLU Karate Club meets 7-8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in the Columbia Center. Cost is $20 for students and $40 for
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a global community who are engaging in a conversation and a dialogue about how we can better serve our fellow humans.” Gould and Matthews will be performing excerpts of their award-winning work from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Anderson University Center’s Chris Knutzen Hall, and will open a dialogue with students to talk about their experiences, both positive and negative, working for their grassroots organization that provides free education, housing, mentoring, and basic needs to a small group of
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Dance concert covers new creative ground Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 28, 2017 March 28, 2017 Dance 2017: Innovation features PLU dancers working with guest and student choreographers exploring inventive themes through dance. The performances are on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s concert is the first under PLU Dance Director Rachel Winchester. Winchester explains that this year’s
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in this map by French teacher Samantha Decker via her blog, The French Corner: a blog about teaching French. This map marks francophone countries across the globe, and can be incorporated into a discussion of how a foreign language became important in these regions. Click on this interactive map to see what countries include French as a national language. For more information on creating custom maps, check out Google’s My Maps documentation. Google Earth More adventurous faculty might try
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general admission, $10 senior citizen, alumni, and PLU community members, $5 for students. Tickets$15 General Admission, $10 Senior Citizen, Alumni, and PLU Community Members and $5 Students PurchaseĒriks EšenvaldsComposerThe Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds is one of the most sought-after choral composers working today, with a busy commission schedule and performances of his music heard on every continent. Read Previous A cross-culture band exchange teaches both student and teacher Read Next Army
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March 12, 2014 Nelly Trocme Hewett’s parents, Andre and Magda Trocme Hiding in Plain Sight: The Story of Rescue in Le Chambon, France By Barbara Clements Content Development Director It all started in the area of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, when a lone, and unexpected, Jewish refugee showed up in 1938, a Latin teacher from Vienna. Word spread. Others came. The Nazi occupation grew in power and the collaborative Vichy government tightened its grip, remembers Nelly Trocmé Hewett, 86, who will
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others to explore the ideas that I found so fascinating. Evidently I was successful, and that really makes it all worthwhile. Do my students in Geometry appreciate it? It is hard to know. I may be a successful expositor, but I am still learning how to be a good teacher.” Read Previous PLU Recognized by Arbor Day Foundation and Princeton Review Guide for Commitment to Sustainability Read Next State Need Grant Facing Cuts; Over 600 PLU Students Could be Affected COMMENTS*Note: All comments are
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.” Her mentor agreed. “In terms of my 25 years in academia, she’s in the top tier of student performance,” Grahe said. “I could see her at a Tier 1 research-focused school where she teaches maybe two classes a year, and the rest of the time does research. I could see her running a nursing ward as an administrator someday, or running a school where other people are learning how to be a teacher. She’s brilliant to start with. Wherever she goes, I think she’ll be successful.” Read Previous Shoebox
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people that you see regularly and that you trust to support you has been so important in my journey at PLU. The community and opportunities to be involved at PLU are fantastic but taking the first step to be involved is really important. Read Previous Dr. Erik Arnits ’11 relies on his medical training – and sense of humor – as an ER doctor in Central Washington Read Next Grayson Nottage ‘23 prepares to become a teacher who excites students about science COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If
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PLC and the service of our student tutors demonstrates PLU’s mission of care and how our students are living it out,” says Yaden.Camp Songs: PLU music majors produce free music camp for Parkland students It’s a warm summer morning and the scent of scrambled eggs drifts from the kitchen into an adjoining room where more than a dozen campers busily make beaded jewelry… Read Previous Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development practices Read Next Breana Downs
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