Network for the Dissemination of Curriculum Infusion at NEIU

Dr. Ron Glick speaks at the first Tesol Turns 10 event Northeastern Illinois University

Integrating Pressing Life Issues, Including Immigration and Immigrant Rights, Into the Curriculum for the Tesol Turns 10 speaker series Northeastern Illinois University

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In 2010, Academy of Scholastic Achievement (ASA) in conducted a school wide survey which revealed that the major life issues of the most concern to include , and the spread of and . Northeastern Illinois University's NDCI department provided it's Curriculum Infusion of Real Life Issues (CIRLI) for to use to incorporate into their . This and student testimony shows how the CIRLI model was used and what effects it had on the high schoolers.

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Ronald Glick, Project Director of NDCI, is Professor Emeritus of at Northeastern Illinois University, . NDCI prepares future teachers at four Chicago area Colleges of Education to integrate into classes across the . NDCI also provides professional development to faculty in Illinois and K-12 school administrators. Professor Glick is experienced in cross-cultural issues related to . His research and publications are on prevention and on drug abuse in the community. He co-edited Drugs in Hispanic Communities (Rutgers Press, 1990).

Every generation of aged has confronted . The term “real life issues” is meant to describe pressing life problems and concerns affecting students’ daily lives. Examples of real life issues include ( , , and ***co), , , (including HIV/AIDS) and status. The impact of life issues on students is often profound, being difficult to resolve, consequential, enduring, and life-altering. Northeastern Illinois University's NDCI department has developed the Curriculum Infusion of Real Life Issues Model or CIRLI. CIRLI provides a method for teachers to integrate study of real life issues and evidence-based strategies that address these issues into classes across the .