Minnesota Teacher of the Year

I wanted to make a quick post first and foremost to congratulate our new Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Carleen Gulstad. She is both articulate and enthusiastic, and will be a wonderful representative for Minnesota educators! Congratulations, Carleen! I’m very happy for you!

In speaking with Carleen about the future of this blog, we decided that rather than limit it to exclusively the current Minnesota Teacher of the Year, that we could extend an invitation to all former Minnesota Teachers of the Year to participate in posting on the blog. Things get fairly hectic during the year you are the Teacher of the Year, and in this way we think we could expand both the reach and content of the blog. I’ve got piles of notes from this past year, and I’m looking forward to finally having time turn some of them into posts. But more to the point: if you are a past Minnesota Teacher of the Year and would like to write a few pieces on the blog, feel free to contact me at any time and we’ll get you set up with an authoring account. I will stay on as the person behind the scenes managing the blog.

I’ve got a few commitments that are keeping me tied up until the end of June, but at that time I’ll go through this blog and redo the format and focus of the blog. Carleen, of course, will have center stage, but I’ll add a page for past Minnesota Teachers of the Year who would like to post. So check back in early July for more information and a slightly different setup.