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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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Noyce scholar and future teacher Read Next Inspired by Women: Cora Beeson’s research in Indonesia began with her Taiwanese Grandmother’s caretaker 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 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy
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underlying concepts, like showing musical expression through movement. She also played a video of Dr. T. André Feagin, director of bands in the department of music at Central Washington University, conducting an ensemble. “I wanted to show them someone who looks like them doing a job that they could never have thought of having access to,” Delos Reyes says. Though the video is five minutes long, “They were in a trance. The whole time they were just staring right at him and just saying, ‘Teacher, he looks
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Alumni News Homecoming 2015 Alumni Awards & Recognition dCenter Alumni Weekend Outcomes Campaign Alumni Profiles Class Notes Submit a Class Note Calendar Discovery Faculty / Students / April 21, 2014 By Sandy Deneau Dunham ResoLUTE Editor B rian Weisenstein is a teacher at Jakarta Intercultural School who spent one particularly toasty July afternoon conducting an experiment on canned pineapple juice in PLU’s Rieke Science Center. That’s not really as random as it sounds. Weisenstein plans to teach
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course, the times he did try to defend himself, a teacher would show up, and Barnes would be the student cooling his heels in detention. Barnes wasn’t even sure whether he would stay in school, until his older brother hooked him up with the game of football. Then everything changed for Barnes, who now tops out at 6’3’’. “Football balanced me out,” he said just before he left with the Seahawks for New York City. “It saved me.” His grades improved, and he was hooked. He found a second family on the
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of public education positions, including as teacher at Peninsula and Henderson Bay High Schools, the Peninsula School District liaison for the home-school program and a drop-out prevention specialist. “We see tremendous growth in the students referred to our programs,” continues Shultz. “For example, last year students enrolled in our reading programs improved on average by one full grade level, and for math students the average improvement in scores was 33 percent.” Speer has served as the
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violin lecturer wears more hats than a British royal: in-demand violinist and violist, co-founder of the ground-breaking Carpe Diem String Quartet, teacher, composer. She’s been invited to play at festivals from Aspen to Lincoln Center and in chamber groups throughout the U.S. With commissions rolling in, she has been listed as one of “25 contemporary composers to watch” by Strings Magazine. For Fujiwara, success is less about prime gigs and good reviews, and more about sharing music. We managed to
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