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A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 By Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013, but she might have taken her most high-profile class just this year: an “Up Close With the…
my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese proficiently in a career, I don’t have many plans. I always hope to love God and people better with whatever I’m doing, though. How did a PLU education prepare you for the real world? Was anyone here particularly influential in your life or career plans? There are so many wonderful people who influenced me at PLU. I had a fantastic
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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 19, 2020) — Switching a campus-based curriculum to a distance-learning model mid-semester in the face of a pandemic is no easy feat. Luckily, PLU professor of music Gregory Youtz and his faculty peers have proved to be up for the challenge. Under…
” the classroom. My students have thus not noticed a huge change in content delivery, though they do clearly miss the face-to-face time with me and their peers. The PLUTO training experience resulted in one of the most significant and positive shifts in my own pedagogy in my 36-year career. I volunteered to do it because I felt this was probably the future of academia — I just had no idea how quickly “the future” might emerge! "I am used to delivering content remotely and 'flipping' the classroom
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 27, 2019) — Dr. Jon Grahe’s reach extends around the globe as an open science ambassador. Nearly a decade ago, Dr. Grahe declared that he wanted to change how we study social science. Because of his tireless efforts, a new approach to…
may utilize the CREP for meta-analyses and their own research interests. As Dr. Grahe explains, “The advantages relate to both pedagogy and theory in psychology.” Dr. Jordan Wagge, who recently assumed the role of Executive Director of the CREP, described Dr. Grahe’s role in the open science movement as an advocate and educator. “He’s been a tremendous force behind open science and crowdsourcing. He is also a significant actor in getting journals to adopt badges for open science practices and many
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Cross-Cultural Coursework By Steve Hansen Even though Mike Engh ’10 grew up in the rural town of Laurel, Mont., he had a good idea what it was like to study away. All four years of high school, his family hosted an exchange student from another…
love for this biologically diverse and culturally unique southern state of Mexico. It isn’t just the unique location or the wonderful food – though they certainly loved that. Not even the salsa dancing, which is an optional one-credit course and a seemingly weekly evening event. It was the community that they talk about, both during their time in Oaxaca, and again when they return to campus. For Engh, the idea of community is made clear when he talks of his host family. (The Oaxaca program is the
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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 25, 2020) — Distance learning and teaching can feel isolating at times. PLU Professor of Hispanic Studies Bridget Yaden has been combating these potential limitations by using different technological tools to make her virtual classroom as accessible and accommodating as possible. The…
we learned not just how to use the technology but also what is best for learning. The PLUTO workshops provided in-depth learning on pedagogy, accessibility and thoughtful course design. PLUTO has us all set up for success in this unique situation because they have developed the infrastructure for instructional technology support. In addition to teaching fully online and asynchronous language courses in the summers, I’ve taught synchronous courses through the School of Education online for years
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PLU is creating a campus experience that helps our students thrive by supporting resources and experiential programs that cultivate the mind, body and spirit of each of our students. After all, it takes a healthy Lute to build a healthy community. Many of these resources…
groups and spaces of belonging, and formal and informal mentors Finally, with faculty, they are investing in learning trauma-informed pedagogy and care for our students and selves. Let's keep the conversation going! Read the additional Bjug Day Q&A's Bjug Day Q&A: ScholarshipsBjug Day Q&A: AthleticsBjug Day Q&A: Academics Read Previous BJUG DAY: Q&A with Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Read Next THE PEOPLE’S GATHERING: Truth Tellin’ About Critical Race Theory COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated
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At a summer 2023 banquet launching the Uukumwe Project, Sanet Steenkamp, executive director of Namibia’s Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, advised a group of Namibian and American teachers not to hold back. “The children,” she said, “deserve for us not to hold back.” Steenkamp’s…
appreciated the opportunity to provide leadership coaching. “I really enjoyed working with Lionel,” Gannon says. “Building him up, helping him see all the positives, helping him realize what he wanted for his building and what his next steps were.” The collective N/a'an ku sê and Uukumwe team outside N/a'an ku sê Primary School after a week of professional development, goal setting, and collaboration. Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development practicesRead moreAt
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Tune in: The People’s Gathering is streaming live TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 27, 2017)- Genesis Housing and Community Development Coalition will host a professional development conference called The People’s Gathering on the campus of Pacific Lutheran University on Friday, February 24. The full-day conference will focus…
tools back to the office and implement immediately.” Event organizers say The People’s Gathering was conceived in response to the culturally divisive 2016 election, and other racial tensions that have recently frequented local and national news. “Many citizens are finally acknowledging the depth of our racial differences and divide in America and are crying out for opportunities to learn and more deeply understand their role in it,” explained Montgomery. “How people talk ─ or don’t talk ─ about race
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Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Natalie Burton ’13 plays a Bach piece on the piano for master pianist Vladimir Feltsman during Portland Piano International’s Up Close With the Masters series. (Photo courtesy of Portland Piano International) A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13…
China as you pursue your master’s? I’m applying to music schools in China so I can be immersed in the Chinese language and still continue my studies in piano. I am interested in Chinese interpretation work, and of course I want to continue teaching and playing piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese
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October is LGBTQIA+ History Month. While we encourage engaging with these topics year-round, October is a special time to reflect on the history of LGBTQIA+ movements, moments, and iconic figures. In this exhibit, the Center for DJS, in collaboration with the PLU Library, is choosing…
woman.”” “She was an activist-author who never shied away from difficult subjects, but instead, embraced them in all their complexity. Lorde was a critic of second-wave feminism, helmed by white, middle-class women, and wrote that gender oppression was not inseparable from other oppressive systems like racism, classism and homophobia. She has made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing.” – from https
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