The Embarrassing
Academic Credentials of Minneapolis Public Schools Staff in the Department of
Teaching and Learning
The Minneapolis Public Schools Department
of Teaching and Learning is an embarrassment featuring not a single scholar on a staff that
should in any case be superfluous.
The existence of a Department of Teaching
and Learning demonstrates a number of key abominations in the organization of
the locally centralized school district.
Because there is so much incompetence throughout the system, bandaids
are always being sought. Since academic
results for African American students at the Minneapolis Public Schools are so
wretched, the system responds by creating the Office of Black Student
Achievement. Because the system educates
American Indian students so abominably, the Minnesota State Legislature
dictates that a Department of Indian Education must be installed. Because building principals are so abominably
trained, four (in the past, as many as eight) associate superintendents preside
over certain sites, with the expressed duty of mentoring principals; but this is merely laughable, because
associate superintendents are also incompetent intellectual lightweights,
including among them failed building principals.
And, for the specific reference of this
article, because teachers are so poorly prepared in departments, schools, and
colleges of education, the system generates a Department of Teaching and Learning
to create curriculum that should already be embedded in the brains of scholar-
teachers >>>>>
>>>>> What college or
university would have a Department of Teaching and Learning?
This
would be laughable, since college and university professors carry curriculum
for mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, political science,
economics, literature, music, and art in their cerebral cortices by the nature
of their scholarly training.
But since this is not so for preK-12
teachers, the system applies another ineffective bandaid, another
laugher--- were the matter not so deadly
serious--- in the form of a Department of Teaching and Learning comprised of
former teachers, many of them failed classroom embarrassments, who are as
poorly trained as the teachers over whom they have bureaucratic responsibility.
Notice that not a single staff member of
the MPS Department of Teaching and Learning has a graduate degree in a key academic
field.
Do not be fooled by degrees in education
with appellations such as Masters of Teaching English, Science, or Social
Studies--- or any degree in a department, school, or college of education. Such degrees are campus jokes, derided by
field specialists in the legitimate academic departments. Education degrees have none of the academic
legitimacy of degrees in English, biology, or history conferred by departments
devoted to study of those fields.
Perpend:
Department of Teaching and
Learning Staff
Staff members listed except
Aimee Fearing were those who occupied positions in the Department of Learning
when I last collected this data, in spring 2019. There has since been considerable turnover,
so that five of those given below are not on staff as of September 2019. Fearing came on staff for this academic year
2019-2020; inasmuch as she is the new
director of the department, I include her credential here, along with staff on
the spring 2019 list.
Aimee Fearing (Executive Director, Teaching and Learning)
Degrees
Earned Field in Which
Institution at
Which
Degree
Was Earned Degree Was Earned
Bachelors
Degree
ESL Education
University of
Northwestern
13 May 2000
Masters
Degree
Education Hamline University
23 May 2003
Doctorate
Degree Education Hamline
University
30 April 2015
Professional
Licensures
K-12 Principal
Licensure
Expiration, 30
June 2023
K-12 ESL
Licensure
Expiration, 30
June 2023
5-12
Communication Arts Licensure
Expiration, 30
June 2023
…………………………………………………………………………………
Aneesa Parks
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
B.A., Education Buena Vista University
Licensures:
Elementary Education
Ashley Krohn
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education Hamline
University
B.S., Film and Television Boston
University
Licensures:
Communication
Arts/Literature
Christopher Jones
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education Chapman
University
B.S., Education Central Michigan University
Licensures:
Physical Education
Mathematics
Christen Lish
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Science
Education University
of Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.S., Education University
of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Licensures:
Life Sciences
Earth and Space
Science
Science 5-8
Christina Ramsey
Degrees Earned Institution at Which Degree Was Earned
Education Specialist University of St. Thomas
M.A., Education
Hamline University
B.S., Education University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Licensures:
Pre-Kindergarten
Elementary Education
Principal K-12
Christopher
Wernimont
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A.,
Mathematics University of
Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.A., Economics Grinnell
College
Licensures:
Mathematics
Hamdi Ahmed
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
B.A., Education Eastern
Michigan University
Licensures:
Communication
Arts/Literature
Hibaq Mohamed
Degrees Earned Institution at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education Augsburg University
B.S., English Teaching Metropolitan State University
Licensures:
English as a Second
Language
Communication
Arts/Literature
Jennifer Rose
Degrees Earned Institution at Which Degree Was
Earned
M.A., Science
Education University of Iowa
B.S., Biology Drake University
Licensures:
Life Sciences
Science 5-8
Julie Tangeman
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
B.A., Education University of St. Thomas
Licensures:
Elementary Education
Katharine Stephens
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Language Arts
University of Minnesota
B.S., English Macalester
College
Licensures:
Communication
Arts/Literature
Kelly McQuillan
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education University of St. Thomas
Licensures:
Social Studies
Lisa Purcell
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education University of Utah
M.A., Education Harvard
University
B.S., Social Sciences Hope College
and History
Licensures:
Social Studies
English as a Second
Language
Principal K-12
Marium Toure’
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
B.S., Education University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Licensures:
Elementary Education
Mary Lambrecht
Degrees Earned Institution at Which Degree Was
Earned
M.A., Mathematics Education University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.A., Education
University of Minnesota – Morris
Licensures:
Elementary Education
Communication
Arts/Literature
Spanish
Natasha Parker
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
B.A., English Hampton
University
Licensures:
Early Childhood
Education
Nora Schull
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
B.S., Dance and Theatre Arts Minnesota State University - Mankato
Licensures:
Dance and Theatre
Paula Kilian
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
B.S., Education St. Cloud State University
B.A., Psychology University of St. Thomas
Licensures:
Elementary Education
Sara Naegeli
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education Concordia University, St. Paul
B.S., Education
Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Licensures:
Elementary Education
Pre-Primary
Sarah Wehrenberg
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education Concordia University, Portland
Oregon
B.A., Science Education Bethel
University
Licensures:
Life Sciences
Science 5-8
Sarah Loch
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
M.A., Education
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.A., Physical Education and Coaching Concordia
University, St. Paul
Licensures:
Physical Education
Health Education
Tommie Casey
Degrees Earned Institution
at Which Degree Was Earned
Education Specialist University of St. Thomas
M.A., Education
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.A., English Missouri Valley College
Licensures:
English/Language Arts
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