Joe Nathan / St Paul Open School / Cynthia Montgomery Mauleón, Jan Fiola, Mexico, Molly Lanpher, St Paul Oen School, Wayne Jennings / 4 Comments
Visiting Mexico with Open School changed my life By Cynthia Montgomery Mauleón Formerly known as “Pesty” I graduated from Open School in 1976. I had first heard of the newfangled Open School from my friend Molly Lanpher. It sounded amazing. I attended the Rock Musical, which provided a glimpse of traditional vs. alternative education, […]
Joe Nathan / St Paul Open School / Animal Farm, George Orwell, Julie Silvers, Laura Jeffrey Academy / 0 Comments
How Open School Made Me the Teacher I Am Today By Julie Silvers As I sit at my desk working on my lesson for 4th period Language Arts Social Studies (LASS) class with my 5th/6th grade class, my thoughts keep drifting back to the question: “How did Open School change my life?” To write […]
Joe Nathan / 2021-2022 Columns & Other Publications / 30x30, International Association of Women Police, Ivonne Roman, Laura Goodman, Minnesota Association of Women Police, Police Chief Online magazine / 0 Comments
This column originally appeared in a number of APG of East Central Mn Newspapers, including Elk River Star News, Morrison County Record, Forest Lake Times, and Mille Lacs Messenger Young women can help themselves, community by becoming police officers Joe Nathan “Young women: Please consider a career as a police officer – both for yourself […]
Joe Nathan / St Paul Open School / A Colin Flood, Faith Latimer, George Latimer, Raul Faricy, St. Paul Open School / 0 Comments
At Open School, you took your brain and ran with it I came to Saint Paul Open School after Saint Gregory’s Catholic School in Highland Park. My parents had swung from being right-wing religious to becoming active in the formation of Open School. My mother was a schoolteacher and she taught an alternative method of […]
Joe Nathan / 2021-2022 Columns & Other Publications / Bearer of the Morning, Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation, Eleanor Roosevelt, Francis Densmore Davis, Graham Green, Jeannie Barbour, Mary Thompson Fraser, Pearl, Q'orianka Kilcher, Te Ata, Te Ata movie / 0 Comments
This column originally appeared in a number of APG of East Central Minnesota Newspapers, including the Union Times. A perfect family movie for this holiday season If you or your family are going to see one movie this year, I urge you to see the beautiful, hopeful, uplifting “Te Ata.” It’s […]