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B RADLEY PDSP AGE 6B RADLEY ETE 235P ARTNERS WITH G LEN O AKB Y D R . H ELJA A NTOLA C ROWEAt Glen Oak this spring, Ms. Rosa Lopez’ kindergarten andfirst grade students and Mr. Ortiz’ second grade studentspartnered with Bradley teacher candidates taking ETE 235:Methods of Teaching English Language Learners (ELL) with Dr.Helja Antola Crowe. The teacher candidates learned a variety ofstrategies to use with ELL students in the context of realclassrooms. Throughout the spring semester, they designedactivities for children and reflected on their learning. With eachvisit, the Glen Oak and Bradley partners engaged in activitiessupporting language learning, content, and celebrations of beingtogether through music and games. In April, Bradley teachercandidates Roxanne Parks and Sarah McGrail co-presented aroundtable discussion about the partnership with Dr. AntolaCrowe, Ms. Lopez, and Mr. Ortiz at the Bradley PDS PartnershipSpring Celebration.2014-2015 CLINICAL EXPERIENCES ATBRADLEY PDS SITESFall 2014Spring 2015Family & Consumer Sciences1010Nursing44Teacher Education5276Psychology99Total7599Sarah McGrail works in Mrs. Rosa Lopez’kindergarten classroom with children atGlen Oak.During 2014-2015, 174 Bradleyundergraduate and graduatestudents completed internshipsand clinical experiences at BradleyPDS sites!B RADLEY D IETETIC I NTERNS S UPPORT H EALTHYL IVING P ROGRAM AT H ARRISON AND M ANUALB Y M ARY N OAKES , D IETETIC I NTERNThrough a partnership with dietitians at Unity Point Health, the dietetic interns at Bradley University work toprovide nutrition education and counseling services for students who are enrolled in the Healthy Living Programat Harrison Community Learning Center and Manual Academy. Students who have been identified as at risk fornutritional issues meet with the interns and dietitians to discuss healthy eating strategies and ways to increase theirphysical activity. The goal of this program is to have each student walk away from the sessions feeling empoweredto make healthier food and physical activity choices. Some of the students have made significant changes in theirbehavior, such as increasing their fruit and vegetable intake, decreasing their consumption of soda, and reducingtheir screen time. This program has been beneficial for the students at Harrison and Manual as well as for Bradleyinterns. We are hopeful that the program will be expanded into other local schools in the near future.

S PRING 2015P AGE 7B RADLEY N URSING S TUDENTS RAISEHEALTH AWARENESS AT T REWYNB Y D R . K ELLY S CHWENDBradley NUR 403-404: Community Health Nursing students partnered with Trewyn for several teaching projects throughout the courseof the semester. Early in the semester, students implemented interactive presentations for Trewyn“Bradley’s PDS schools are an kindergarten classes on theimportant component of the topics of personal safety,outdoor safety, and what tocommunity clinical experience expect when visiting a healthfor Bradley Nursing Students. care professional. In March,the nursing studentsThe relationships with theschool communities are val- participated in a careerued, and the care and educa- fair for Trewyn middleschool studentstion of the students, faculty, focused on careers inand staff is most rewarding.” nursing and otherhealth professions. Dr. Kelly Schwend,They answeredAssistant Professor,questions aboutDepartment of Nursingvarious careers in thehealth care field,encouraged students to begin considering their futureeducational or career plans, performed focused exams onstudent volunteers, and answered questions related tohealth. The nursing students also participated in a career fairfor Trewyn’s early elementary students. Children in gradestwo through four learned about the various nursing roles inSarah Peat, Amanda Bianchetta, Kristin Tomczyk,the hospital and community, and participated in discussionsand Chelsea Mueller hold “babies” about toand activities related to nutrition, exercise, and hand washreceive wellness exams. Top: Chelsea Muellering. Each kindergarten and first grade student was given atalks with Trewyn students about eating smart.doll or stuffed animal. Their “babies” were then brought tothe nurses for wellness exams. The nurses explained eachstep of the process, with the hope of alleviating children’s fears associated with visiting a health care professionaland being examined. The experience was well-received by the children and also allowed them to learn about hownurses care for people. Bradley PDS Partnership funds provided the needed support for this programming.BRAEYLDIn late March, the Bradley PDS Council provided a red Bradley pencil forevery student enrolled at Bradley’s eight PDS sites 4,400 pencils in all! Inprevious years, Bradley pencils were provided only for ISAT and PSAE testtakers. However, the new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Collegeand Careers (PARCC ) test offers the option of completing statewide achievement testing online, which makes #2 pencils less critical. Providing pencils to allstudents at Bradley’s PDS sites (not just ISAT and PSAE test takers) also allowedthe Council to include students at St. Mark and Valeska Hinton for the first time.

B RADLEY PDSP AGE 8Manual ELL Students Meet BradleyLatino/A Student OrganizationsBy Dr. Cecile ArquetteDuring fall 2014, Ms. Kristen Bailey, English Language Learner (ELL) teacher at ManualAcademy, contacted the Department of Teacher Education to see if she could find someone whowould help her show her students the advantages they have as bilingual speakers. As she notedin that email ".I really want them to realize the opportunities they have if they take advantageof their bilingualism. I want to expose them to other Latinos/as that are making their dreams come true. Most ofmy students have never known anything but poverty. I really would like to change that." That first email became aconversation between Dr. Cecile Arquette and Ms. Bailey, and developed into connections being made betweenChicas, Bradley's Latina Service sorority, the Association of Latin American Students (ALAS), the Society of HispanicProfessional Engineers (SHPE), and the Manual ELL students.Bradley students visited Manual to work with the students there, and an April field trip to Bradley wasarranged by Dr. Arquette with the help of the Latino/a organizations. The visit proved very successful. After awelcome by the Bradley students, small groups of the Manual students were matched up with Bradley studentsin majors similar to their interests. These groups toured the campus and talked to their university mentors abouttheir majors, how they ended up at Bradley, and what campus life is like. The morning ended with snackspurchased by the Bradley students for the Manual students in the Michel Student Center. Bradley’s Latino/aorganizations are continuing to make visits to Manual, and Ms. Bailey and Dr. Arquette are already discussinghow to make this collaboration an annual event.N URSING S TUDENTS C OMPLETES ENIOR P RACTICUMAT S T . M ARKB Y D R . K ELLY S CHWENDAt St. Mark, two Bradley nursing students wereassigned to a 10-week, 75-hour clinical rotation wherethey were responsible for providing care for minorillnesses and injuries as well as educating the studentsand staff on a variety of health-related topics. Thenursing students were able to gain experience caring forand educating children ranging in ages from 3-14 years.In response to the recent outbreak of measles, apresentation was developed and tailored to meet theBethany Goralski and Emily Maybach present theirneeds of middle school students, faculty, and staff.poster “Prevention of Measles: Spring into Action”The presentation emphasized the importance of handhygiene, the role of vaccinations, and recognition of the at the 2015 Spring Celebration.early signs and symptoms of measles. The content waspresented to middle school students in an engaging Jeopardy! format. The poster presentation for the faculty andstaff was also presented at the 2015 Bradley PDS Partnership Spring Celebration.Spring 2015 Bradley PDS Partnership Post AuthorsThe articles in this issue were written and/or edited by Jane Cushing, Amanda Inoa,Jana Hunzicker, Janet Jackson, Joan L. Sattler, Jenny Tripses, and Bob Wolffe.Many thanks to our spring guest authors as well!

P AGE 9S PRING 2015A RT AT S T . M ARKB Y J UDY P LACKOSt. Mark Catholic School art studentsalways enjoy visitors, and were pleased to have theopportunity to host Bradley’s ETE 199: Art in the P-8Schools students“St. Mark students, teachers, again during thespring semester.and families appreciate1Bradley teacherand value our school’scandidates hadconnections with the Bradley the opportunity to visit and help St. Mark artUniversity students, faculty, students in the classroom over four weeks’ time.During the fifth week, each teacher candidateand programs!”taught an art lesson to the class he or she had Judy Placko, Art Teacher, been observing.Some of the St. Mark art projects that BradleySt. Mark Catholic SchoolETE 199 students helped with were created for theSt. Mark Fine Arts Event 2015. This event included a beautiful student art gallery show, aswell as performance art presentations by the St. Mark choir and the cast of High SchoolMusical, Jr. This is the second year that St. Mark hasexhibited and performed in the Prairie Center of theArts Gallery, located in Peoria’s Historic WarehouseDistrict.We were also happy to host roundtable discussionsat the 2015 Bradley PDS Spring Celebration. Topicsdiscussed included the importance of the fine arts inthe elementary school curriculum, ETE 199 studentsobserving and teaching in St. Mark art classes, and artprojects exhibited during the St. Mark Fine Arts Event2015. St. Mark students, teachers, and families appreciate and value our school’s connections with the BradleyUniversity students, faculty, and programs!2534Each year, St. Mark students have an opportunity to create multiple forms of 2- and 3-dimensional art.Pictured here: 1: Leaf prints on cloud clay: Grades 3 and 4. 2: Ancient Egyptian mummy: Grade 4. 3:Rocking horse: Grade 7. 4: Cardboard collagraph prints: Grades 1, 2, and 3. 5: Lucy: Grade 7.

B RADLEY PDSP AGE 102015-2017 PDSS TRATEGIC P LANNINGB RADLEY S ENIOR N URSINGS TUDENT S ERVES ON H EALTHC ARE P ANEL FOR M ANUALB Y D R . P EGGY F LANNIGANB Y D R . J ANA H UNZICKERThis summer, the Bradley PDS Council will updatethe Bradley PDS Partnership strategic plan for the 2015to 2017 segment of the partnership. The five goals thathave guided the partnership since 2012 will remain(see page 14 of this issue), but some of the actionssupporting the five goals will be modified to moreclosely align with the needs of Bradley’s eight PDS sites,needs of the College of Education and Health Sciences,and available financial and human resources.A first draft of the 2015-2017 goals and actions wason display at the 2015 Bradley PDS Partnership SpringCelebration, where stakeholders in attendance wereencouraged to identify the four actions they felt weremost important using small sticker-dots. In this way, agreat deal ofinput wasreceived fromBradleystudents, staff,and faculty. Atthe next stakeholders dinnermeeting, PDSteachers andadministratorswill also beinvited to offerinput. The newPDS strategicplan is expected to beBradley PDS stakeholders “vote with dots”completed inat the 2015 Spring Celebration.early fall 2015.Julia Vojtsek listens as co-panelists talk withManual seniors during the health care panel.In late February, Bradley senior nursing studentJulia Vojtsek served as a panelist during an eventorganized for the Manual High School SeniorEnrichment Program (MHSEP). The panel, which washeld at the University of Illinois College of MedicinePeoria Regional Campus, consisted of people fromvarious health care programs and specialty areas.Cesar Menchaca, a senior medical student at theUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine—Peoria whohelped organize the event, reflected, “[The] panel wasgreat! The high school students were shy at first, buteventually opened up. They had all of their questionsanswered and afterwards expressed a sincere gratitudetowards the panelists. We were very fortunate to haveJulia be a part of the panel and her unique perspectiveas a nursing student was invaluable.”Julia, pictured on the far left in the photo below,shared, “The panel was an amazing experience. Theintellectual drive and career interest possessed by thehigh school students was inspirational. I appreciatedthe honor of sharing my insight.”

S PRING 2015edTPAP AGE 11C ONTINUING C LASSROOM P ARTNERSHIPB Y D R . C ECILE A RQUETTEOver the past seven years, Dr. Cecile Arquette has included projects in her ETE 300 and ETE 313 classes thatinclude classroom-based interactions with students at two of Bradley’s PDS sites: St. Mark and Whittier. Hercurrent ETE 313: Methods of Literacy I project, in place since fall 2011, focuses on developing teacher candidates’understanding of literacy assessment and how to develop lesson plans based on the results of assessment. Eachsemester, Bradley teacher candidates take what they are learning in their university classroom and apply it in a real-world setting. Candidates work one-on-one with children in first and second grade assessing, planning, and thentutoring an elementary student in the areas of word study, reading fluency, and reading comprehension.Over the past several semesters, this project has evolved to reflect the changes in teacher preparation; namely,the edTPA. As a result, ETE 313 students now gain experience with assessment and tutoring in early elementaryliteracy and apply their skills to their growing knowledge of the edTPA lesson planning process. ETE 313 nowprovides carefully scaffolded support throughout the semester, with assignments connecting to each other. Forexample, standards-based objective writing is reviewed at the beginning of the semester, then applied via writingmini-lessons for the tutoring sessions. The selection of tutoring topics are based on the assessments the Bradleystudents give their Whittier students. Near the end of the semester, the teacher candidates take all these learningexperiences and craft a modified edTPA Learning Segment. This is usually the students’ first chance to apply whatthey have been learning about the edTPA in lower level classes, as ETE 313 is frequently the first methods class theytake. The Bradley PDS Partnership has enabled ETE 313 to be much richer for the Bradley students, while at thesame time giving back to the PDS schools by providing tutoring to many early elementary students.B RADLEY P RESENTS AT N ATIONAL PDS C ONFERENCEB Y D R . J ANA H UNZICKERDuring the first week in March, five faculty and professional staff members from Bradley’sCollege of Education and Health Sciences (EHS) presented two different breakout sessions at theTenth Annual National PDS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The first, entitled “The History andProgression of Manual Rounds: A Structured Peer Observation Process for Teachers in Urban SchoolSettings,” was co-presented by Drs. Jana Hunzicker, Bob Wolffe, Jenny Tripses, Pat Chrosniak, and Jane Cushing.This presentation described the history and progression of Manual Rounds over the past four years from variousstakeholder perspectives. A bonus added to this presentation was an overview of the Glen Oak New TeacherSupport project that was conducted for the first time during the fall 2014 semester.The second, entitled “A Partnership Approach to Enhance Social Studies Instruction” was presented by Dr. BobWolffe. This session described a unique classroom partnership he has developed for his ETE 335: Methods ofTeaching Social Studies K-8 course, in which Bradley pre-service teachers plan instructional units that are thenimplemented by Bradley PDS teachers. Following impleA SPIRING P RINCIPALS O FFERmentation, the PDS teachers debrief the instructionalexperience with the pre-service teachers, providing theF EEDBACK TO S TUDENT T EACHERSpre-service teachers with an instructional planning experience connected to the real world of teaching. The practic- On April 9th, graduate students enrolled in EHC 670:ing teachers benefit from a chance to try new instructional Human Resource Development conducted mockapproaches grounded in current best practices.post-observation conferences with Bradley studentBoth 45-minute breakout sessions were very wellteachers enrolled in Dr. Sherwood Dees and Andriaattended. “We are fortunate to have the resources toWitherell’s student teaching seminars. This activityattend this national conference each spring,” says Dr.gave the aspiring principals an opportunity toJana Hunzicker, William T. Kemper Fellow. “It allows uspractice their skills related to teacher evaluation,to share our successes, gather new ideas, and meet otherwhile the student teachers received practice andPDS stakeholders from across the country.”advice in preparing for and engaging in theevaluation process.

B RADLEY PDSP AGE 12FCS 246 C OMMUNITY W ELLNESSS TUDENTS H OST H EALTH F AIRB Y D R . M AGGIE S ASFCS 246: Family Systems and Applications Community Wellness students Melissa Bucklin, Dakota Bullard, Marielle Jones,Alicia Kholamian, Olivia Riggins, Julie Shapiro, Bradley Weaver, andAlexa Wendell planned and implemented a half-day health fair atTrewyn K-8. They prepared four stations around the topics ofphysical fitness, environmental safety/health, nutrition, andpersonal hygiene. The interactive centers designed and facilitatedby the Community Wellness students contributed to Trewynstudents’ understanding and passion for health, while also uplifting and motivating them, which was evidenced by smiles, undivided attention, enthusiastic participation, and intriguing questions.The FCS 246 students felt inspired, reporting that the experiencewas rewarding. They especially appreciated the opportunity towork personally with kids and see how differently the various agelevels participated in the activities and soaked up the informationfrom their carefully prepared lesson plans.ETE 211 AND AVID F ORM AP ARTNERSHIP AT M ANUALCommunity Wellness students BradleyWeaver and Alicia Kholamian engageTrewyn students during a Health Fairtheir class planned and implemented.B Y J ANE C USHINGOne of the Bradley PDS partnership goals is to prepare aspiring professionals in education and health sciences.In meeting this goal, the Bradley University clinical experiences department worked in cooperation with ManualAcademy to place 13 students enrolled in ETE 211: Human Development and Effective Teaching in an AVIDclassroom for their clinical experience. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, isdedicated to preparing all students for collegereadiness. Fifteen cooperating teachers mentoredthe Bradley ETE 211 students, and all were able toobserve Manual’s AVID program in action. SeveralManual teachers commented that the Bradleystudents came into their classrooms with po

psychology, counseling, and educa-tional leadership majors complete clinical experiences and internships at radley PDS sites each semester. Educational leaders from Peoria Public Schools and radley University highly value this ongoing school-university partnership. Dr. Joan Sattler, Dean of the ollege of Education