CICE Year in Review 2021

Hear from a panel of local community educators and administrators as the Central Illinois Community Educators (CICE) reflect on 2021.

0:00 Hannah Johnson (McLean County Museum of History)

3:50 Molly Allen (Regional Office of Education 17)

14:44 Tony Morstatter, Jenny Hall (Boys & Girls Club BN)

24:03 Marcos Mendez (Conexiones Latinas de McLean County / BN Latine Network)

31:20 Katy Strzepek (ISU Center for Civic Engagement)

40:40 Holly Ambuehl (Forefront, formerly of Illinois Partners for Human Service)

49:30 Doug Johnson, Kimberly Babin (McLean County Arts Center, Arts Alliance Illinois)

54:04 Debbie Fandrei (Illinois Association of Museums, Buffalo Grove Park district)

59:04 Jeanne Hamilton (Bloomington Public Library, Illinois Library Association)

1:12:18 Willie Holton Halbert (BN NAACP)

Since 2006, the Central Illinois Community Educators (CICE) has existed as a loose but loyal coalition of community partners in Bloomington-Normal and beyond with the common interests of supporting schools, students, and their families, and sharing best practices with and within the informal education sector. Since 2017, CICE membership has included representatives from all forms of community education from museums, zoos/nature centers, art galleries, and cultural sites, to public libraries, after school programs, human service organizations, and more. This coalition exists to scaffold learning through the Central Illinois region by serving as a conduit between fellow informal educators, teachers and their students, and community members.