Peter Medlin
Education ReporterPeter is an award-winning education reporter who has been at WNIJ since 2018. He’s also the host of Teachers’ Lounge: a listener-driven podcast & radio show telling the story of education through conversations with teachers and students. He grew up in Sandwich, Illinois, and graduated from North Central College. When he’s not writing & reporting, Peter loves to run at forest preserves across northern Illinois, cook, & hang out with his cat.
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Federal agencies have canceled grants and colleges and universities around the country. What about in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin? -
John Gelasi knows school band can be really meaningful…“Kids tell me, 'the only reason I was able to get up and go to school this morning is because I knew I had band today,'" he said. The award-winning northern Illinois music educator on everything from the magic of learning an instrument to his previous career in actual magic. It's on a new Teachers' Lounge podcast. -
El viernes 8 de agosto se inauguró una nueva escuela primaria en DeKalb. Peter Medlin estuvo present durante el corte de listón... -
Wednesday is the first day of school at the brand-new Dr. Leroy A. Mitchell Elementary School in DeKalb. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin recently got a behind-the-scenes tour to learn more about what’s in store for this year... -
Last week, President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His new nominee to replace them is a Northern Illinois University grad. Peter Medlin reports… -
Friday was the grand opening of a brand-new elementary school in DeKalb. Peter Medlin was there as they cut the ribbon…
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We talk with a DeKalb teacher from Brazil about helping other international teachers come to the US. We’ll learn about his own journey and much more on new Teachers’ Lounge podcast. -
A teacher is considered “out of field” when they’re teaching a grade level or subject that they’re not licensed by the state to teach. In Illinois, 4 percent of all teachers are “out of field.” But as WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports, in one district, it ballooned all the way to 37 percent. -
DeKalb’s city council just had a public hearing on what to do with a 100-year-old building. It’s been vacant for decades and now the development plan has stalled. -
A Rockford STEM teacher takes flight, literally. And we talk with two local educators who just wrote the new book “Your Words are Fire.” That and more education stories on a new Teachers' Lounge radio show.
