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McRAH Project Administration
Project Director:
Linda Meczyk
(B.S., Social Studies, M.S., Elementary Education; University
of Wisconsin; M.S., Education Administration, Ed.D, Education
Leadership, Loyola University Chicago) is principal of Cooke
Magnet School in Waukegan. Dr. Meczyk has been involved in the
administration of the three Illinois State Board of Education
Urban Education Grants, and the federal Comprehensive Schools
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| Dr. Linda Meczyk, Project Director of McRAH and principal of Cooke Magnet School in Waukegan, Illinois. |
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Academic Director: Michael H. Ebner
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(B.A., University of Toledo; M.S., Ph.D., University of Virginia) is the A.B. Dick Professor of History at Lake
Forest College, where he has taught since 1974. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. A trustee of The
Chicago Historical Society since 1991, his works include Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History (University of Chicago Press,
1988). Professor Ebner regularly teaches the U.S. History Survey I and II, "American Cities," "History of Sport," "History Theory and Methods,"
and "American Social History," and each of his courses exercise students in the applications of technology as a research tool in history.
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| Left to right: Abeer Shinnawi, McRAH teacher and Lake Forest College alumnus
('99) with Michael H. Ebner, A.B. Dick Professor of History at Lake Forest College and Academic Director of McRAH. |
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also participates in teacher education at Lake Forest College for students intending to become middle- and high school social studies
teachers. Ebner has been honored with awards for teaching and service by the City College of New York (1973), The American Historical Association
(1994), The Chicago Tribune (1994), and Lake Forest College (1996, 1999, and 2000).
Assistant Academic Director: Rachel
G. Ragland
(B.A., M.S. University of Pennsylvania; Ed.D.,
in Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University)
is Assistant Professor of Education at Lake Forest College, where
she has taught since 1996. She has also served as adjunct faculty
at Loyola University Chicago, DePaul University and Teacher's College,
Columbia University. At Lake Forest she currently teaches "Observing
the Schooling Process," "Curriculum Design," and "Secondary Methods
of Instruction," and supervises student teachers. She also serves
as Director of Project Explore, a summer science program for talented
middle school students. As a former award winning high school teacher,
she has taught courses in American History and participated in numerous
professional development activities,
including
presenting NSF-sponsored
workshops
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| Rachel Ragland, assistant professor of education at Lake Forest College, who is the assistant academic director of McRAH. |
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for teachers and serving on advisory committees for the
American Psychological Association and WNET Channel 13 in New York.
She is the author of a high school textbook, Invitation to Psychology
(Scott Foresman, 1988) and has presented on various teacher education
topics at numerous professional organizations.
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