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This column appeared in a number of ECM/Sun Current newspapers during January, 2013. As we start a new school year, I recall that there may be few people more miserable than a 7th grade boy whose voice is changing, in a choral music class…the kind of class where youngsters are expected to sing every day. […]
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By Joe Nathan Increased student safety is very much on the minds of the more than 40 Minnesota school leaders who responded to a recent survey. Many districts have made changes to their buildings and changes in procedures. Here’s what several area school leaders told me. Asked what changes the district had made after the […]
admin / 2013, Columns (J. Nathan) / Education Minnesota, Eli Kramer, Joe Nathan, John Bellingham, Minnesota Board of Teaching, Teach for American, teacher preparation / 2 Comments
By Joe Nathan Here’s happy news as Minnesotans prepare for a new school year. Both the Minnesota State Board of Teaching and Education Minnesota, the state’s teacher union, responded thoughtfully to the recent controversy about Teach for America. At a time when there is widespread rancor about how to improve public schools, these were encouraging […]
admin / 2013, Columns (J. Nathan) / Joe Nathan, Migizi Communications, Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, motorcycle, Native Americans, Ron McKinley / 0 Comments
By Joe Nathan Ron McKinley loved motorcycles, and he loved to laugh. He especially loved riding Harley-Davidson Motorcycles around the country. He also was a wonderfully effective mentor and advocate for expanding opportunity and justice. An Illinois native and St. Olaf graduate, McKinley identified with his Mescalero Apache roots. As his memorial service program […]
admin / 2013, Columns (J. Nathan) / changing schools, comments, education, interests, Joe Nathan, Ken Robinson, learning, learning styles, second opinions, skills / 3 Comments
Powerful, personal and passionate. That’s how I’d describe more than 20 responses to last week’s column recommending a “second opinion” in medicine and education. All over Minnesota, and the U.S., people described themselves or their children as benefiting from a second view. Here are a few examples and what this can mean for schools. Karen, […]