FINDING THE MIDDLE GROUND
Low Income Schools in a
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Heather Ochman
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THE TEAM
Michelle Adeoye
Michelle is graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is studying Educational Policy with an emphasis in Global Studies. She currently works at the U of I as the program coordinator for the Illinois Engineering First-Year Experience.
In her not so free time, she is the director of a service and arts organization in the Champaign-Urbana community called One People. In June, One People will be hosting their very first one-week free arts camp at the Boys & Girls Club.
In the fall Michelle will be moving to San Francisco where she will pursue a doctorate in International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco.
Rachel is known as an enthusiastic TOEFL instructor, a translator, a jazz singer, and an avid reader and a concert goer, not to mention a selfie lover. She majored in English literature and Human Resource Development in undergraduate school, and is now a master's candidate for Global Studies of Education at UIUC.
She has taught English at Chungdahm Learning for more than 5 years, and is a head teacher to train rookies, Chungdahm Learning is one of the best known English Institutes in South Korea. Chungdahm Learning, also known as CDI, has 88 branches nationwide, and now has international branches in Canada, China, and the US. While teaching English in a prestigious private institute in Korea, she cannot help but think about children and students who are suffering from poverty and technological disparities. Therefore, she wants to find potential solutions to lessen the gap.
Heather is a master's candidate for the Educational Psychology program with a focus in Curriculum, Technology, & Education Reform at the University of Illinois.
She is known as Ms. Ochman by day, as a seventh grade English teacher at Herndon Middle School in Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia. She teaches in a high poverty area with a large population of ESOL students, and is intent on narrowing the achievement gap and abolishing the digital divide in classrooms.