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TEACHABLE MOMENTS
Inside classrooms at schools on Chicago’s North Side, Loyola students and faculty are helping to advance education—and learning valuable lessons in the process • BY MAURA SULLIVAN HILL
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Education majors like Jackie Martin (BS ’15) have gained teaching experience in classrooms across Chicago thanks to partnerships between local schools and Loyola’s School of Education.
hen Symone Smith arrived at Edgewater’s Nicholas Senn High School in the fall of 2013, she was a quiet freshman who had never envisioned journalism as a potential career path. Then she enrolled in Senn’s digital journalism program. Today, Smith is a senior, jug- gling college applications and homework with her spot as an anchor
on the school newscast. She wants to be a broadcast journalist and even hopes to host her own television show someday. “Before this program, I didn’t know anything about journalism,” she says. “[Now] having an idea for a story, like a profile piece or a feature, and then doing every step to put my story out—interview, film, and edit it—is very rewarding.”
Senn’s digital journalism program is one
component of a successful partnership be- tween the high school and Loyola’s School of Education that started in 2011. Since then, the partnership has served as a model as Loyola re- vamped its curriculum and partnered with more local schools. In 2013, the School of Education
launched its redesigned teacher preparation program—known as Teaching, Learning, and Leading with Schools and Communities—with a focus on field-based, urban education. “Almost all courses happen in school sites, community organizations, or cultural institutions,” says Ann Marie Ryan, the associate dean of academic
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