Alumni Spotlight
Read about our alumni and the impact they’re making in the ECE field. If you would like to share your story with us for an Alumni Spotlight, or nominate a fellow UIC ECE alum, please email us at earlychildhood@uic.edu.
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Melinda Young
Program: Master in Education in Instructional Leadership
“ECE teachers are not babysitters, they are practitioners that influence and support significant brain development in the next generations.”
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Marilyn D. Wrice
Program: Early Childhood Alternative Licensure Program (ALP)
“Be prepared to treat and teach each child as an individual. I feel as though a Teacher should also be willing to learn. We can learn a lot from a child.”
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Erica Hawthorne
Program: Early Childhood Alternative Licensure Program (ALP)
“I love having an impact on the lives of the next generation of leaders. Students pursuing the Early Childhood Career path should be people who want to make a difference in the lives of early learners.”
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Betsy Castellanos
Program: MEd in Early Childhood Education
“Those with a love and understanding of the field make the best teachers.”
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