Many changes
in staffing have occurred at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Department of
Teaching and Learning, a department that constitutes a bureaucratic burden, now
magnified by expansion of the department from 22 to 25 members. The department should not exist, representing
as it does a lamentable application of a bandaid for the fact that teachers are
so ill-trained; but Teaching and
Learning staff members are just as academically lightweight as are Superintendent
Ed Graff, Interim Senior Academic Officer Aimee Fearing, and most of the
district’s teachers. With the rise in
teacher quality that will come in the K-12 Revolution with a vigorous retraining program, the
Department of Teaching and Learning will be disbanded and a current approximately
two million dollar ($2,000,000) burden cast off.
Examine the
many changes that occurred in staff listings between September 2020 and October
2020
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Department of Teaching and Learning Staff List
as Given in September 2020 (unchanged
since December 2019 on the website)
Aimee Fearing, Executive Director of K-12
Academics
Ashley Kohn, K-12 Library Media Information
DPF
Christen Lish, K-8 AVID Coordinator
Christina Ramsey, K-8 Talent Development and
Advanced Academics
Chris Wernimont, 6-12 Math DPF
Donell Shinder, Science Materials Handler
Hibaq Muhamed, 6-12 Literacy DPF
Jeanne Lacy, Executive Assistant
Jeff C. Carlson, Materials Coordinator
Jennifer Rose, K-12 Science DPF
Julie Tangeman, K-5 Literacy, Science DPF,
Davis Center
Katie MacDonald, Materials Handler
Kelley McQuillan, 9-12 Talent Development and
Advanced Academics
Lisa Purcell, K-12 Social Studies DPF
Marium Toure, K-5 Math DPF, Davis Center
Mark Berg, Science Materials Handler
Nora Schull, K-12 Arts DPF
Paula Kilian, 6-12 AVID Coordinator
Sara Naeglie, K-5 Literacy DPF, Network
Sara Loch, K-12 Health/Physical Education DPF
Tara Newhouse, Senior Handler of Living
Organisms
Timothy Lilla, Senior Materials Handler
Tommie Casey, AVID Program Manager
Teaching
and Learning Staff, October 2020
Notably absent on this list is
Aimee Fearing, who still officially occupies the Interim Senior Academic
Officer position as of October 2020 but is no longer listed as Executive
Director of the Department of Teaching and Learning:
MPS Teaching and Learning staff
as of October 2020 is given as follows:
Abdi Ogle, Cultural Facilitator
Ashley Kohn, K-12 Library Media Information District
Program Facilitator (DPF)
Christen Lish, K-8 AVID Coordinator
Christina Ramsey, K-8 Talent Development and
Advanced Academics
Chris Wernimont, 6-12 Math DPF
Dina Brenny, Account Specialist
Erin Clarke, K-8 STEM DPF
Jeanne Lacy, Executive Assistant
Jenn Ross, K-12 Science DPF
Jennifer Hanzak, K-5 Math DPF
Julie Tangeman, K-5 Literacy, Science DPF,
Davis Center
Kelley McQuillan, 9-12 Talent Development and
Advanced Academics
Lisa Purcell, K-12 Social Studies DPF
Lori Ledoux, K-12 Arts Specialist, Teacher on
Special Assignment (TOSA)
Marium Toure, K-5 Math DPF, Davis Center
Meghan Gasdick, K-5 DPF Literacy
Melody Lockwood, Multi-Tiered System
of Support Coordinator
Molly Siebert, K-5 Social Studies DPF
Molly Vasich, 6-12 English Language
Art/Reading DPF
Nora Schull, K-12 Arts DPF
Paula Killian, AVID Middle School Coordinator
Paula Jacobson, Cultural Facilitator
Sara Loch, K-12 Health/Physical Education DPF
Tara Finn, Fine Arts/ Teacher on special
Assignment (TOSA)
Tommie Casey, AVID Program Manager
Ogle, Brenny, Clarke, Hanzak, LeDoux, Gasdick, Lockwood, Siebert,
Vasich, Jacobson, and Finn (eleven staff members in all) are new to the
Department of Teaching and Learning.
These staff members no longer
appear as of October 2020:
Donell Shinder, Science Materials Handler
Hibaq Muhamed, 6-12 Literacy DPF
Jeff C. Carlson, Materials Coordinator
Katie MacDonald, Materials Handler
Mark Berg, Science Materials Handler
Tara Newhouse, Senior Handler of Living
Organisms
Timothy Lilla, Senior Materials Handler
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