{"id":28678,"date":"2025-07-22T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=28678"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:26:01","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-ms-katie-lafleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2025\/07\/22\/welcome-to-mpa-ms-katie-lafleur\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To MPA, Ms. Katie LaFleur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28636 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/KatieLaFleurWP.png\" alt=\"Katie LaFleur, MPA Lower School teacher\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Welcome to MPA, Ms. Katie LaFleur! Ms. LaFleur will be joining the Lower School as a third-grade teacher. We are thrilled to introduce her to the MPA community!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nLiberty Ridge Elementary in District 833 is where I previously worked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nI graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead with a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education and a Master of Arts in education from Saint Mary&#8217;s University. I have also taken several graduate-level classes beyond my master&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI loved the amount of educational opportunities students are given. Each student can learn at their own pace and style.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What lasting impact do you plan to have on MPA and its students?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy goal is to create lifelong learners and a classroom family. I want students to feel confident in their educational career and never stop learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy big dream is to take my family to Greece and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy family and I love sports: hockey, lacrosse, and gymnastics. We also love to travel all over the world together. I am an avid runner and reader. I also love to bake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have been to every state in the United States except Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to MPA, Ms. Katie LaFleur! Ms. LaFleur will be joining the Lower School as a third-grade teacher. We are thrilled to introduce her to the MPA community! From what school\/organization are you coming? Liberty Ridge Elementary in District 833 is where I previously worked. Tell us about your education and past experience. I graduated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":28635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10027,29,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-families","category-faculty-and-staff-experience","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-my-mpa-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28723,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions\/28723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}