With HF274 & SF386 making their way through the #mnleg, @MarielleMohs stopped by my #SSPMS classroom to hear our thoughts on a potential MInnesota state flag redesign. #MNstudies #Vexillology
🧵of some of our redesign concepts.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news… @MarielleMohs The light blue represents the land of 10,000 lakes.
The blue outline M represents the Mississippi River.
The white M represents the state name (obviously), the serenity & purity of our snow covered landscape. The north star is a nod to one of our many state nicknames.

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As the temperature near Fort Snelling and Mankato continues to chill well below freezing, please take a moment and reflect on the events that took place 160 years ago today in Minnesota. Thirty-eight Dakota men are hanged by the federal government in Mankato, Minnesota, resulting in the the largest mass execution in American history.

New presents for me!!! My @WhiteHouseHstry Christmas ornament collection is expanding. 2017 @WhiteHouseHstry White House Christmas Ornament

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Breaking down Jensen's latest education video. Bare with me, it's another long thread that actually uses evidence and linked documents to ask @drscottjensen for clarity on what he is trying to push... which right now is fear & misinformation.

https://twitter.com/drscottjensen/status/1561752163772153856

I'm struggling to understand if @drscottjensen actually understands the Education profession & honestly wants to work w/educators to improve it or if he believes his only chance of winning is to fan the flames of fear & spread falsehoods.

For whatever reason, I absolutely love photographing different angles of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I think maybe I should start a long thread of the different shots I've taken. I'll start with these for unconventional shots.
1st National Bank 🧵 First National Bank building in downtown Saint Paul, MN.

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"Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."
~ Second Continental Congress, June 14, 1777.
#FlagDay Pictured is the first known photograph of the Star-Spangled Banner, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem "The Defence of Fort McHenry", photographed in 1873 at the Boston Navy Yard.
#FlagDay

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We continue to go back & forth w/the Russia - Ukraine War and the U.S. - Dakota War, looking for similarities & differences in what has happened, as current events can often (somewhat?) mirror historic events. #SSPMSpackers #MNstudies During our class today, we were looking at the ending of the U.S. Dakota War. One of the passages from our textbook Northern Lights (@HistoryEdMNHS) struck me.

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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.

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

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.

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

https://twitter.com/shadow_uzumaki/status/1361823644926808069

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.

https://twitter.com/MarkJWestpfahl/status/1361669059536904197

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…

This too shall pass.
#mnwx #mnwx perspective:
100 days ago, it was almost 100° warmer than it it today - we had a record high of 75° in Saint Paul, MN on November 6.