We got to take advantage of an interesting vantage point to capture some images of the President Biden's visit to Dakota County Technical College. #SSPMSpackers
Here's what it looked like from above. The beginning of the video shows the work area for the local & national journalists. Nearly all of them were on different locations at this point in the speech. #SSPMSpackers@POTUS@JoeBiden
This was a great vantage point (and an interesting composition of that first photo, if you ask me.) Our cameras were not the greatest fit this distance, but they got the job done. I wonder what @gspphoto shots would like like from up here! #SSPMSpackers@POTUS
Well look at that. Who do I spy? The one, the only, the brilliant @gspphoto! Can't wait to see all of his @POTUS shots later and read @bbierschbach story that will accompany them in the @StarTribune. #SSPMSpackers
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I just got to looking at many of the photos my #SSMSpackers students took during @POTUS@JoeBiden's visit to Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount, Minnesota. I'll post a series of them from before and during the event.
One of the things we wanted to focus on as student-journalists was what was going on behind the scenes as well as the main event in Dakota County Community College. This Pro-Trump / Anti-Biden group was not the biggest fans of us asking questions or photographing.#SSPMSpackers
Big news out of Saint Paul this evening around the closing of 5 schools in the upcoming years. The Board of Education voted 5-2 to close. Galtier, Jackson, John A Johnson elementary will all close in 2022 L'Etoile du Nord French Immersion School lower & upper campuses will merge.
Also closing is Parkway Montessori Middle School. The facility will eventually reopen as Hmong Dual Immersion Middle School. Obama Elementary School will close in 2023.
Originally, SPPS Superintendent wanted to close Wellstone and Highwood Hills elementary schools along with LEAP High School. That did not happen this evening at the Board meeting.
I've been asked a lot lately if CRT is being used in classrooms currently, if it's being written into the standards, why standards are being rewritten at all, etc.
I've also been asked why I believe it is important to have additional culturally/racially inclusive perspectives.
Minn. Stat. § 120B. 021 Subd. 4(f) states:
The commissioner must implement a review of the academic standards and related benchmarks in social studies beginning in the 2020-2021 school year and every ten years thereafter.
That's why a review is occuring - not a political move.
1st & foremost, it's important 4 people 2 define what CRT is. Most people on Twitter/FB or in real life struggle to do it (educators, conservatives, liberals, people in-between, etc.), &/or have come up w/some sort of bastardized version that picks/chooses only elements of it.
Honest question to @sendahms and other @mngop & @MinnesotaDFL legislators. If I am teaching the Civil War to 7th graders, how much time should I devote? What key events, people, concepts should I discuss? How should I assess? Remember, I have 50 minute class periods. #mnleg
I'll take it another step further, using the same parameters?
How much time, ... etc. should I devote to the #WWI? Who do I include, exclude? What outside resources can I bring in and which must I avoid? Remember these are 13 year olds and we have 173 school days.
Thread: MN Social Studies Standards Revision Committee
I continue to be shocked by the gross misinformation that continues to come out regarding the Minnesota Social Studies Standards revision process from members of the #mnleg and elsewhere.
In this thread, I'll start w/ @sendahms, who stated in a recent FB video message that the committee wants to remove the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War 1 & World War 2 from the social studies state standards for Minnesota. This is flat out untrue. facebook.com/watch/?v=33056…
Also suggested by @sendahms and the Center for the American Experience is that presidents - all mentions of Abe Lincoln and George Washington & others, have been removed from the standards. This too, is a gross misrepresentation of the work the committee has done.