{"id":22069,"date":"2022-08-25T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2022-08-25T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T14:40:08","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-justin-quam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2022\/08\/25\/welcome-to-mpa-justin-quam\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to MPA, Justin Quam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22070 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Justin-Quam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><strong>What position will you be holding at MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege Counselor<\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nSt. Paul&#8217;s Schools, Brooklandville, MD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nI have been working in education for a year as an English teaching assistant in Austria in 2010. After finishing graduate school at Georgetown, I taught German and global politics at the St. Paul&#8217;s Schools near Baltimore, where I also served on the college counseling team. I just wrapped up my first summer co-directing Waldsee, the German summer camp at the Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji where I have taught since 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was struck by the earnest curiosity of the students I met at MPA; they seemed intrinsically motivated by their own desire to learn and grow, rather than by external markers of success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the moment, I&#8217;m most excited to connect (and reconnect) to communities I was isolated from throughout the pandemic, and to help students do the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you (and your family, if you so choose) passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nSinging fills the gaps in my soul. I joined a choir when I first moved to DC in 2011 (before even finding an apartment), and that community has been the one constant in my life through a decade of moves, grad school, teaching, and job hunting. I hope to find a similar musical avenue in MN!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI can fold just about any origami creature out of one square of paper, given detailed instructions. (Hedgehogs are my white whales, so to speak&#8211;too many spines&#8211;but almost any other animal is fair game.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What position will you be holding at MPA? College Counselor From what school\/organization are you coming?\u00a0 St. Paul&#8217;s Schools, Brooklandville, MD Tell us about your education and past experience.\u00a0 I have been working in education for a year as an English teaching assistant in Austria in 2010. After finishing graduate school at Georgetown, I taught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22082,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions\/22082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}