{"id":22041,"date":"2022-08-19T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T03:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=22041"},"modified":"2022-08-19T22:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T03:58:25","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-jackie-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2022\/08\/19\/welcome-to-mpa-jackie-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to MPA, Jackie Lynch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22042 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/JLwpstory.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Lynch\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>What position will you be holding at MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nSubstitute Teacher<\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nMinneapolis Japanese School<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nOriginally from Japan, I studied abroad at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota for my Bachelor&#8217;s Degree (2000), and earned my Master&#8217;s in Early Childhood Education from the University of Sheffield in England (2008). I relocated to Japan in 2001 and had extensive experience teaching PreK classrooms, leading teams, and directing international schools. I moved back to Minnesota in 2015 and have been a lead teacher at Minneapolis Japanese School since 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nWalking the halls and exploring the website, I was struck by the positivity, inclusion, and diversity of the students, staff, and curriculum. There is an energy within the MPA community that I want to experience and contribute to.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt has been my dream to be a teacher since I can remember. To be able to positively impact students from all parts of the globe would exceed that initial childhood dream.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you (and your family, if you so choose) passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nOur family loves to travel. We enjoy interacting with the community and eating local food. At home in Japan or Minnesota, we love experiencing the weather and activities of the 4 seasons such as skiing in the winter, cherry blossom viewing in the spring, camping in the summer, and hikes at the College of St. Ben&#8217;s\/St. John&#8217;s University and Duluth\/Grand Marais. Cooking a nice meal and listening to music on Saturdays is our go-to when relaxing at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have three children, each of whom was born in a different country: Japan, Singapore, and U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What position will you be holding at MPA? Substitute Teacher From what school\/organization are you coming? Minneapolis Japanese School Tell us about your education and past experience. Originally from Japan, I studied abroad at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota for my Bachelor&#8217;s Degree (2000), and earned my Master&#8217;s in Early Childhood Education from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,29,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-homepage","category-lower-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041","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=22041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22047,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions\/22047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}