🔔 Big news for IL schools! @IllinoisDHR, in collaboration with @educationillinois.bsky.social, has created the Racism-Free Schools training, and it's now available! Equip your district with this tool to address and prevent racial harassment. Bit.ly/ILRacismFreeSchools #ILRacismFreeSchools 🔶🔷✊🏽🍎📚

DEADLINE TOMORROW AUGUST 1ST. Illinois Civics in the Classroom is an initiative aimed at supporting low-income communities by engaging youth in civic action. Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/IllinoisCivics #Illinois #Civics #Education #Americorps #VISTA

Congratulations to Dr. Giselle Martinez Negrette, C&I Assistant Professor, on receiving the 2025 NAEd/Spencer Fellowship! Her research explores how emergent bilinguals use language to shape identity and relationships, advancing equity in education through sociolinguistic inquiry. 🔶📚🔷

Congrats to @ciatillinois.bsky.social professor Rochelle Gutiérrez on receiving the Distinguished Scholar award from the Research in Mathematics SIG of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social.

Join us in celebrating Dr. Stephanie Toliver for her powerful op-ed, "Book Bans Don’t Make America Great." 📚✊🏽✨ In this piece, Dr. Toliver encourages us all to engage in meaningful conversations about the importance of access to ideas and questioning whose stories aren't being told. lnkd.in/gGhwa5tT

Congratulations to the Early Childhood Professional Education Programs group of Fall 2024 Graduates! 🎓 🔷🔶 Last weekend our graduates had their online recognition ceremony. Your future is bright, and we can’t wait to see all the amazing things you will accomplish! 🌟

Congratulations to Dr. Gutierrez on being awarded the 2025 SIG/RME Distinguished Scholar Award! Dr. Gutierrez is paving the way for a more inclusive and effective teaching approach for all students. We look forward to seeing the impact of her ongoing research! 📚✨

Congratulations to our students for successfully completing the 18th annual GeoJam! Your hard work in engaging middle schoolers in math is inspiring and helps ignite their passion for learning. Special thanks to Dr. Gloriana González-Rivera and Adam Poetzel for their leadership. 🌟📐🍎

Congratulations to our Assistant Professor Dr. Catherine Dornfeld Tissenbaum, and Doctoral Student Annie McClellan on being awarded a Campus Research Board Grant for their groundbreaking project "Teachers’ Time Matters: Investigating Time Demands on Novice Teachers." 🌟 👏

We are proud to highlight 3 incredible computer science education programs overseen by Dr. Todd Lash: (1) Teaching Endorsement in Computer Science Education, (2) Computer Science and Education Learning Sciences, and (3) Computer Science and Education Secondary Education. 🌟📚💻

We at Curriculum & Instruction at The University of Illinois hope everyone has had a great start to the new year! 🔷🔶🔷🔶🔷🔶 We are working hard to ensure that May 2025 brings another year of addressing critical issues of learning, teaching, and justice!

Congrats to @epsyatillinois.bsky.social professor and @ciatillinois.bsky.social interim head Helen Neville on being named a professor at The Center for Advanced Study. Neville is the second Education faculty member named CAS professor, joining James D. Anderson.