GROW YOUR OWN TEACHERS GRADUATES, MAY 2010

Twenty-three Grow Your Own Candidates have graduated from their programs since the inception of the program. Here are there names, and their consortia:

Logan Square Nueva Generacìon/Chicago State University *

• Beatrice Aviles, Bilingual Education
• Maritza Diaz, Bilingual Education
• Marmel Iguarta, Bilingual Education
• Ebelia Mucino, Bilingual Education
• Uriel Muro, Bilingual Education
• Elizabeth Pagan, Bilingual Education
• Maria Ramirez, Bilingual Education
• Daniel Silva, Bilingual Education
• Emma Vale, Bilingual Education

L-R: Daniel Silva, Emma Vale, Beatrice Aviles, Ebelia Mucino

North Lawndale/Northeastern Illinois University

• Romaneetha Looper, Elementary Education

Chicago Lawn/Northeastern Illinois University

• Maria Buenrostro, Elementary Education
• Alicia Rivera-Laboy, Elementary Education

Springfield

• Nikki Moore, Elementary Education
• Jelinda Nunn, Elementary Education

Nikki Moore with her Springfield Class (Acknowledgment: Illinois Times)

Southernmost Illinois

• Kimberly Eddington, Special Education

Alton, Greenview College

• Suenell Barnes, Elementary Education
• Natalie Smith, Elementary Education
• Rebecca Woods, Elementary Education

South Suburbs/Governors State University

• Martha Damian, Elementary Education
• Denise Kranzer, Elementary Education
• Michelle Robinson, Elementary Education
• Leslie Sanchez, Elementary Education

Denise Kranzer, with pupils in Crete, IL

Peoria

• Lydia Branch, Special Education

* This Logan Square cohort is the prototype GYO project, funded originally with a federal grant. All of the graduates listed were enrolled in the program when state funding began.