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Continue reading →: The Health of Hopkins 270: A Slide ShowI recently created a slide deck that I now want to share with the Hopkins community.
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Continue reading →: Iceberg Ahead!Quantifiable measurements are showing a clear pattern: Vision 2031 is failing Hopkins students across demographics and core subjects. In the meantime, District Administration and the School Board are fiddling around with Vision 2031 as we steam full speed ahead into an ice field.
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Continue reading →: Great to World Class?In Fall 2018, Hopkins 270 introduced the concept of Vision 2031, and included a graphic with a simple statement of intent: “Great to World Class”. But this is a marketing statement, avoiding any form of responsibility for meeting quantifiable measurements of success or failure.
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Continue reading →: Vision 2031: Into the Rabbit HoleFor a variety of reasons, it has been months since I posted anything to this blog. In large part, I’ve been consumed with work and family life. But more than anything, I have wanted to start to dive down into Vision 2031, understand it, and share my thoughts and concerns…
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Closing Thoughts on the 2018 MHDR-Hopkins Agreement
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Continue reading →: Closing Thoughts on the 2018 MHDR-Hopkins AgreementHopkins 270 is undergoing fundamental changes based on the falsified premise that MDHR found evidence of racial discrimination in our schools. Meanwhile the actual problem of racial disparities goes unresolved, we have failed to examine why we are making such fundamental changes, and being told to ignore signs of distress.
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Continue reading →: Open Letter from The Parents, Caregivers, and Allies of Hopkins Gender Expansive and LGBTQ+ StudentsThis post contains the full text of an open letter that was delivered to the Hopkins School Board and Superintendent on July 26, 2024 demanding action following the assault on a transgender student at Hopkins High School at the end of the last school year.
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Continue reading →: My Full Comments to the Hopkins School Board – August 20, 2024My presentation to the School Board was cut off at 3 minutes. My full comments, provided here, concern the District’s failure to address the needs of the LGBTQ+ students while turning our district upside down based on the false assertion that a 2017-18 MDHR investigation found systemic discriminatory racism in…
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Continue reading →: Restorative Practices and the 2018 MDHR-Hopkins 270 AgreementThe implementation and ongoing operation of the Restorative Culture / Restorative Practices program is based on the false assertion that the 2018 Agreement required its implementation.
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Continue reading →: Analyzing the 2018 MDHR-Hopkins AgreementIn Part 2 of a series, I delve deeper into the Collaboration Agreement between MDHR and Hopkins 270 and provide my thoughts on what was really going on.
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Continue reading →: Uncovering the 2018 MDHR-Hopkins AgreementIn 2018, Minn Dept of Human Rights announced it had entered into “Settlement Agreements” with Hopkins 270 and 40+ other districts related to racial disparities in discipline. MDHR did not want to show me actual agreement, but I found it anyway — It’s not what we’ve been told!
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