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Michael Bruesch
Graduate Teacher Preparation with M.A.Ed., 2007
If you ask him to describe the value of his Antioch education, Michael Bruesch says, "I'm able to see where our school is lacking and provide positive feedback and suggestions to my school for student improvement. I feel like I have a much better BS detector when it comes to school district policy and administrative policy.
"Bob [Delisle] helped me get my first job immediately following my student teaching and constantly encouraged me to follow my passions in education of teaching inner-city youth."
"Antioch was also very important to helping me learn the education lingo and standards that are necessary in education. It was especially amazing that Antioch prepared me to teach halfway across the country, in a very urban school in Chicago, Ill."
Today, he's a sixth grade social studies and science teacher for the Chicago Public Schools. Before coming to Antioch, he was an active volunteer in various community outreach programs and worked for Seattle's Parks and Recreation Department managing a swimming pool and teaching classes. He also coached a high school swim team.
Bruesch lauds Bob Delisle, dean and faculty member in Antioch's School of Education, and Bruce Saari, an adjunct faculty member, for inspiring him.
"Bruce was both a professor of my changing schools class and my student teaching university supervisor. I believe that my ability to teach and my mindset for education in general changed radically as a result of Bruce Saari. Bob Delisle was my academic adviser as well as my adviser on my master's thesis. Bob helped me get my first job immediately following my student teaching and constantly encouraged me to follow my passions in education of teaching inner-city youth," he credits.
He says he chose Antioch because of its commitment to urban education, school reform and multiculturalism. "I liked the liberal mindset that was embodied in Antioch's mission statement. Also, I believed that Antioch was a place for change and progressive thinking, not teaching how it was and used to be," Bruesch notes.
His best memory came in a human development class where Jerry Saltzman, associate faculty in the School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy, urged, "You can do no wrong."
"That followed our cohort throughout our time at Antioch," says Bruesch, "and became a strong bonding message for us. He said that if we believed that we could do no wrong, what would we do? Imagine the possibilities."
What does he tell prospective students? "Antioch is a progressive-thinking university with top-notch faculty."
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