As the senior master teacher at Educare Chicago, an early childhood program on the South Side operated by Start Early, Danielle Jordan knows firsthand the challenges that teachers and their young students have…
Kathryn Chval’s ties to the University of Illinois Chicago go back to when she was a young undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and decided to pursue a degree in education…
When Nina Hike was a young child living in the Altgeld Gardens public housing projects on the far South Side, she would walk across the street to the Beaubien Woods and bring back…
The College of Education’s Center for Literacy recently published its first issue of an academic journal authored and peer-reviewed by graduate students. The journal, Literacies Across the Lifespan, will publish biannually in the…
Educational researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago have received a $100,000 grant to help fund the creation of an online kindergarten readiness website for teachers and families. The investment from the CME…
In December 2020, the College of Education celebrated its first cohort of students to complete the Alternative Licensure Program (ALP) for Early Childhood Education. Through a combination of UIC coursework and fieldwork, 21…
Dr. Morales (C&I) is a co-principal investigator of a three-year, $445,000 Spencer Foundation grant focused on how centering the experiences and knowledge of pre-service teachers of color can improve teacher education programs.
Assistant professor of science education (Curriculum & Instruction) Daniel Morales-Doyle has been named a 2020 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.
Two education-related researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have received nearly $1 million combined in grants from the Spencer Foundation in support of their work. One of the awards, granted through…
The UIC College of Education has received a $2.8 million gift from Marjorie Pelino to help expand the number of early childhood teachers in Chicago and surrounding areas.
