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December 20, 2021

Visiting Mexico with Open School Changed my Life

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, […]

December 19, 2021

How Open School Made Me the Teacher I am Today

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 […]

December 11, 2021

Young women can help themselves, community by becoming police officers

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 […]

December 9, 2021

At Open School, you took your brain and ran with it.

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 […]

November 24, 2021

A perfect family movie for this holiday season

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 […]

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18 Dual (High School/College) Credit Videos Completed

With help from the Minnesota Department of Education and Target, we have completed new videos that are in 7 languages: Hmong, Somali, Arabic, Karen, Dakota, English and Spanish.

See all the student videos on the Dual High School/College Credit page

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