Anne Kaplan, NIU Vice-President
DeKalb District 428-NIU Partnership Activities
Reading and Language Arts
Pre-school screening programs
Early intervention/reading readiness surveys
America Reads program and book clubs
ESL-bilingual school reorganization design
Bilingual tutoring
Free services for hearing impaired students
Technology
Hardware, software, and technology liaison at Malta Elementary
Teacher training for using technology in classwork
Principals’ training in use of student test data in the interactive report card
High speed broadband and Internet 2 connections for all schools
Telephone service through the university switch – lower costs and better security
Improvement of Teaching
Clinical observations by NIU students
Student teaching by NIU students
Credit and noncredit courses
Middle school training for teachers
Master’s cohort in elementary education
Facilities and Equipment
428 tennis team uses NIU courts
NIU uses the high school running track
NIU contributed a landing pit for high jump
Operations
Wright Partnership School
Affirmative action and diversity activities in 2005
Joint purchasing to reduce costs
For more information, please visit www.partnershipschool.niu.edu or www.dist428.dekalb.k12.il.us/wright/home.html
