“Sustainable Education”

Recent alum Micah Zaker (BSEd ’18) is not that different from other School of Education students who graduated this May: He already had big plans for life after Commencement.

Unlike many of his former classmates though, Zaker got an early start his senior year—when he decided to take his passion for ecology and protecting the environment and apply it to his studies. While earning a degree in middle grades education, he took a special interest in the research of Tim Hoellein, PhD, a biology professor at Loyola University Chicago. With help from instructors in the School of Education, Zaker decided to develop a new course curriculum for middle schoolers teaching them not only how ecosystems work but how trash affects the environment. Continue reading.