{"id":22028,"date":"2022-08-17T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=22028"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:48:28","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-dinah-macphail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2022\/08\/17\/welcome-to-mpa-dinah-macphail\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to MPA, Dinah MacPhail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22029 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DMwpstory.jpg\" alt=\"Dinah MacPhail\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>What position will you be holding at MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nFifth and eighth grade social studies teacher<\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nSaint Paul Academy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nI fell into teaching as a summer job in 2008, and then kept coming back to it until I realized how much I loved it. I started at the Carroll School in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and have since taught in Massachusetts and Minnesota, and in almost every grade (except pre-k). Before I became a licensed teacher, I also taught wine tasting classes as a wine sales rep and cheese monger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA? <\/strong><br \/>\nThe incredible positivity, the honest and vulnerable reflective practices, and the authentic emphasis on community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo love what I do, and to do what I love, both without reservation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe most important things in my life have always been the relationships I get to build with others and with myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nHighs and lows, I guess: I have a first degree black belt, and I\u2019m allergic to chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What position will you be holding at MPA? Fifth and eighth grade social studies teacher From what school\/organization are you coming? Saint Paul Academy Tell us about your education and past experience. I fell into teaching as a summer job in 2008, and then kept coming back to it until I realized how much I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-homepage","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22031,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions\/22031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}