Three students have recently finished their Student Teaching; Lief Esbenshade, Social Studies, Apple Valley High School; Jill Merkle, Social Studies, Southwest High School in Minneapolis; Jimmy Dreese, Communication Arts, Apple Valley High School. Jimmy was just hired by Robbinsdale Cooper High School in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis as a long term sub for Language Arts. He will be teaching 9th and 11th grade English classes. Congratulations Jimmy!

Deborah Appleman, the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies and Chair of Educational Studies, returned to Syracuse University, where she served as a visiting professor, to receive the prestigious Tolley Medal in recognition of her work on literacy and areas of scholarship related to life long learning.