The Speducators Network serves to bring together special education teacher candidates, exemplary teachers in the field and alumni to build career paths and address challenges in special education.
Alumna and doctoral student Jasmine Juarez is combating the myth that Latina/o students are not interested in STEM fields by demonstrating that passion for math and science can easily be activated by teachers.
PhD Educational Psychology alumnus Ken Fujimoto's analysis of data helped the City of Chicago improve its quality rating system for child care providers.
Ebony McGee was drawn to STEM fields like math and science from a young age. As a high schooler in Chicago, she earned a scholarship to begin studying engineering at Illinois Institute of…
PhD Special Education alumna Nicole Koonce is investigating how use of language dialects leads to misdiagnosis of literacy and language development problems.
PhD Educational Psychology student Ethan Arenson is investigating how systems for scoring the progress of math and science students can be tweaked to produce better results for teachers.
PhD Literacy, Language and Culture student Colleen Whittingham is investigating how the gaze, gestures and use of bodies in speaking between children and parents impacts literacy learning.
How does the strength of connectivity between student and school affect Black male students with special education needs? PhD Special Education student Kari Smith is on the case.