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Flint's Student Investigators

Students in the classroom of Mindy Chappell, a Master Teaching Fellow with the College's Project SEEEC, are investigating the Flint water crisis in an inquiry-based science project.

Three Latino students sit in a row at desks, each working on writing in workbooks.

Preschool Literacy Skills for Low-Income Students

MEd Literacy, Language and Culture student Elia Olivares is working to ensure Aurora parents from low socio-economic backgrounds are equipped with resources to teach literacy in the home.

A school building and its courtyard in Guatemala, with mountains in the background and low clouds and fog shrouding the view of the mountains.

Indigenous Languages in Education

Lydia Saravia's journey as a researcher has taken her to Guatemala, where she is finding indigenous languages are marginalized in favor of English education.

Professor Norma Lopez-Reyna records the story of a woman at the Maria Shelter in Chicago.  The woman telling her story is sitting at a table and holding her baby in her lap.

Family Literacy Promoted Through "Love Notes"

Alumna Cheryl Watkins' community engagement project encouraged women who had experienced trauma to write memory stories - positive or negative - to aid fellow women in similar situations.

Recipients of Phoenix Pact funding stand to be recognized at a reception honoring their college acceptances.

Phoenix Pact Endowment Fosters College Choice

Alumna Nicole Howard believes college costs are limiting choices for low-income students. At North Lawndale College Prep, she launched the the Phoenix Pact endowment to end these limits

Samantha Richardson reads a book to a group of three children who are seated on the floor in a circle around her.

ESL Students and Literacy Support

In the diverse Evanston/Skokie school district, where more than 50 languages are represented, alumna Samantha Richardson works to ensure all parents are equipped to teach literacy in the home.

Rachel Harper sits in an easy chair in front of a large work of art, an abstract painting, in an art gallery.

"Seen and Heard" Features Children's Works

Doctoral student Rachel Harper poses a fascinating question in her new exhibit "Seen and Heard": when we talk about knowledge, why do we never consider the knowledge generated by children?

The Crawford Generating Station, a now-retired coal plant in Chicago.  A rusted orange smokestack rises above a series of boarded up window panes on a large red brick building.

Environmental Justice is Chicago Teens' Mission

Alumnus Daniel Morales-Doyle facilitated a Dean's Community Engagement project providing forums for Little Village teens to investigate issues of environmental justice.

A teacher is looking at examples of student art on a bulletin board in a school hallway, surrounded by young Black male students.

Teaching Profession Under Attack, Says Alumnus

Alumnus Dave Stieber, MEd Policy Studies '12, responds to Governor Bruce Rauner's allegation that the Chicago Teachers Union's 40,000 teachers comprises a dictatorship.

Teacher Amani Ghusein stands behind two students who are running a science experiment, in which one student throws a cotton ball at the face of the second student, to test the second student's blinking reflexes.  The second student is wearing safety goggles.

Science Identity for Urban Students

When alumna Amani Ghusein asks her students to draw a picture of a scientist, most draw a mad scientist. Few draw self-images. Check out Amani's strategies to strengthen science identity.