Chicago Teachers’ Center
For those of you who do not know, I have a new job! I am now the Director of Math/Science/Technology (MST) at the Chicago Teachers’ Center (CTC) at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU).* The CTC is a wonderful place that has been around since 1978, with the defining purpose of reforming urban education. It’s a really exciting place to be, at an exciting time, with exciting responsibilities. I’ll be designing, developing, and implementing MST programs, writing grants that support these endeavors, and providing professional development for my colleagues and the teachers we service. I am thrilled to be working here with such wonderful and experienced people, who believe as strongly as I do that education is a human rights issue.
My time at Northwestern and the Collaboratory was invaluable and I hope to continue the great work and relationships developed there. It’s a great shame that a program as innovative as the Collaboratory (it was “Web 2.0” before they even came up with that term) was not able to follow us into classroom of the next generation, but I do think it provided great inspiration for many of the great programs we see in schools today. I’m looking forward to seeing what it is we can continue to do to foster curiosity and a life-long love of learning in our students.
*Yes, I am aware that I went from Northwestern to Northeastern. No, I will not only work with organizations that are named after intermediate directions.