{"id":22073,"date":"2022-08-25T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=22073"},"modified":"2022-08-25T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T17:47:58","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-meem-fahlstrom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2022\/08\/25\/welcome-to-mpa-meem-fahlstrom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to MPA, Meem Fahlstrom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22074 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Meem-343x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Meem-343x300.png 343w, https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Meem.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/em><strong>What position will you be holding at MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nMiddle School Spanish Teacher<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nMy favorite job was being a 2-week program facilitator for a Spanish camp, El lago del bosque, Concordia Language Villages. I got my masters in World Language Instruction through Concordia College. I\u2019ve taught at Armstrong High School, Totino-Grace high school, The Churchill School and Center (For Students With Language Based Learning Disabilities), and Wayzata public schools.\u00a0I&#8217;ve led trips to M\u00e9xico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and France. I&#8217;ve lived in Chile and Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nMPA feels like home. Everyone that works here is here for the students and there is a high degree of innovation. I worked with K-5 students last year and knew it was the place for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your big dream?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nMy big dream is to write a Minneapolis-based dystopian YA novel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you (and your family, if you so choose) passionate about?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nI love plants, biking, improv comedy, reading fiction, and writing short stories. My partner and I love Minneapolis and knitting. I grew up surrounded by Croatian elders. I only have one great aunt left who lives in Leetonia (near Hibbing) and I enjoy spending time with her up north. I am passionate about my two nieces (one from each of my brothers).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am a licensed Biology teacher, but each year I choose to teach Spanish. Also, I&#8217;m trans non-binary and my pronouns are they\/them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What position will you be holding at MPA? Middle School Spanish Teacher Tell us about your education and past experience. My favorite job was being a 2-week program facilitator for a Spanish camp, El lago del bosque, Concordia Language Villages. I got my masters in World Language Instruction through Concordia College. I\u2019ve taught at Armstrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073","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=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22106,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions\/22106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}