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An NIU professor helped urban & suburban students team up to confront education inequality | Teachers’ Lounge podcast

Two high schools, 25 minutes apart. One wealthy and in the suburbs. One in the city, lower-income. An NIU professor's project brought together students from both schools to see educational inequality for themselves and fight for change.

A Waubonsee professor brings her experience as an immigrant business owner to the classroom | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

On a new Teachers' Lounge, Waubonsee professor Dr. Nour Al-Nabir brings her real experience as an immigrant business owner into the classroom.Her students just won a national entrepreneurship completion. That and more on a brand-new episode!

An Illinois civics teacher showing her students how to take action | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

In a civics teacher's “Taking Action” class, students fight for change, whether it’s fixing potholes or school lunches. What does it mean to actively DO social studies? I’s on a new Teachers' Lounge.

The co-founder of Rockford's Womanspace on her half-century quest to create a comfortable and creative place for women | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

The co-founder of Rockford’s Womanspace on her half-century quest to create a comfortable and creative place for women..

A Morris teacher who's not afraid to set a standard of excellence | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

On a new Teachers' Lounge podcast, we talk with a Morris teacher who’s not afraid to hold his students to a standard of excellence.“I tell the kids, if you come in and you work for me, I will jump over the moon for you.”What it means to go above and beyond for kids.