{"id":266,"date":"2013-06-13T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1984classnews\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:43:15","slug":"kris-condon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/2013\/06\/13\/kris-condon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Condon &#8217;84 &#8211; Selected for Supreme Court Summer Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-condon-188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1980sclassnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-condon-188.jpg\" alt=\"06-alum-condon-188\" width=\"188\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Big news!\u00a0 Next Tuesday, June 11, I will represent Kankakee Community College as one of only two community colleges in the country invited to the United States Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers, sponsored by Street Law, Inc.\u00a0 Street Law is a not-for-profit organization that promotes civics education initiatives for high school educators.\u00a0 Out of the 30 seats available for this year\u2019s institute, two were made available to community college faculty for the first time ever\u2014and little old KCC is filling one of those seats!\u00a0 I could not be happier to represent our wonderful students, our talented alumni, and the Kankakee legal community at this institute.\u00a0 And what a timely event, with the cases and issues facing this Court during the current term.\u00a0 There is much teaching and learning to be accomplished, and I am eager to spend 7 days in Washington learning about the Court\u2019s inner workings and better ways to make our students more civically literate.\u00a0 The ideas are swimming in my head as I type!\u00a0 As many of you know, I began my career working for the state judiciary, and those professional lessons from valued mentors have stayed with me to this day. . . .\u00a0 I really hope to pay this forward to the latest generation of students!<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I invite you to follow my journey on Facebook, which my students have dubbed \u201cMiss C\u2019s Excellent Adventure.\u201d\u00a0 (Seriously, none of them are old enough to even know this movie.)\u00a0 I plan to post every day and will include questions and topics to get my students\u2019 thoughts moving.\u00a0 Hope you\u2019ll get a minute to check in as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kccparalegal\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/kccparalegal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take care!\u00a0 Hope to hear from you!\u00a0 &#8211;Kris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, Big news!\u00a0 Next Tuesday, June 11, I will represent Kankakee Community College as one of only two community colleges in the country invited to the United States Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers, sponsored by Street Law, Inc.\u00a0 &hellip; 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