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Entries by Valerie Fischer
2025 Graduation Schedule for Master’s Graduates
Graduation at Martin Luther College is special. It is a day of praise to the Lord for the gifts he gives to his church. In addition to recognizing our traditional graduates, it is important to publicly recognize those who earn their master’s degrees. We celebrate their accomplishment in several ways.
Meeting the Needs of All Learners
American classrooms are growing more and more diverse. In the face of this blessing—and challenge—Dr. Kari Muente MLC ’99 is ready to share an instructional framework that can help teachers reach all their students: Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Dr. Muente is sharing her knowledge of UDL in the MLC graduate course she team-teaches with […]
New Degree, New Vocation
Since her graduation from DMLC in 1986, God has put Gina (Hoerning) Grove’s gifts to work in many different vocations—teacher, consultant, Bible study writer, speaker, life coach, counselor, mom, grandma—and she has taken Scripture with her everywhere she’s gone. When she decided in her 50s to pursue her Master of Arts in Theological Studies (MATS) […]
A Special Path Toward Special Education
“It’s amazing how God will use things in your life early on to prepare you for where he wants you to go.” Dr. Mark Murphy DMLC ’92, a new member of our graduate faculty, is circumspect about how he landed where he is today—serving God as a special education professor. During high school and college, […]
Kortney Behnke Is First Graduate in Accelerated MS-Special Education
“The Most Rewarding Job” Kortney Behnke knows exactly why she pursued special education as her major—and her vocation. Back in elementary school, she watched as a family in her church had to make difficult educational choices. “They had multiple children with various special needs,” she says. “Some of the kids attended our WELS school, but […]
Guided Studies from the Ground Up
When Kirsten Gullerud’s principal at St. Paul in Appleton, Wisconsin, asked her to help him create a Guided Studies program, she was a little hesitant. She was working as an aide in the first-grade classroom at the time, and she really didn’t know much about special education. But she did have a broad teaching background. […]
Ben Carlovsky Finds Deep Content to Match Deep Passion
Ben Carlovsky MLC ’03 was originally enrolled in MLC’s Master of Science in Educational Administration program. As an elementary school principal at Abiding Word-Houston, that made sense. But when he accepted a call to teach religion at Wisconsin Lutheran High School, he switched programs midstream. Now he’s a 2023 graduate of our Master of Arts […]
The Best Time for a Master’s Degree—Now!
Dana Raasch Explains Why When Dana (Pietrzyk) Raasch graduated from Martin Luther College with her bachelor’s degree in 2021, it didn’t take her long to realize that the best time to pursue a master’s degree was immediately. So after just one year in front of the classroom, she became a student again—in MLC’s graduate program. […]
