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Teacher and Director, Pre-Kindergarten Program, Dallas City, Illinois Community Unit District #336, and Faculty, Western Illinois University
Linda Housewright has been a prekindergarten teacher at Dallas City Community Unit District #336 in Illinois for the past 17 years. Her classroom was chosen four years ago as a long-distance virtual learning site for Western Illinois University (WIU). Her classroom has three cameras, five microphones, two TV monitors, and her own T1 Internet line! She wants you to know that she may not be the best prekindergarten teacher in the state, but she may be one of the bravest! Her love for children and her passion for wanting to help young teachers understand what a real classroom looks like on a daily basis is what gave her the courage to agree to this teaching arrangement. She also serves as a faculty member at WIU and spends time each semester talking with preservice teachers about what they see happening in her classroom. Linda also was a member of the Governor's Reading Kit Committee, and her classroom served as a film site for the prekindergarten kit and for "Meeting the Challenge." She was a member of the field-testing committee for the Illinois Early Learning Standards and is a Work Sampling Illinois Trainer. Linda has provided Illinois Early Learning Standards training and believes in the Standards' importance in the lives of children. She was a presenter at the 2002 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) convention in New York and one of the creators of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) model classroom at the Chicago NAEYC convention in November 2003. Linda also received an ISBE "Those Who Excel" 2000-2001 award for meritorious service. She is also proud to say that she is a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister!
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