Aug 31, 2020

Article #10 in a Series Focused on Those Culpable for the Wretched Level of Education at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) >>>>> The Embarrassing Academic Credentials of Minneapolis Public Schools Staff in the Department of Teaching and Learning


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

 

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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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