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A substitute teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities metro allegedly re-enacted George Floyd's murder with a student on the ground, and reportedly told students “police brutality isn't real.”In a letter to parents, the school district detailed some of the teacher's behavior, including racist and sexist jokes and sharing explicit details about his career as a police officer in Wisconsin.School and district officials say they have removed the teacher and barred him from the property.South Washington County Schools Superintendent Julie Nielsen joins MPR News host Cathy Wurzer with more information.Read more reporting at MPRnews.org.

A substitute teacher at Woodbury High School has been banned from teaching after re-enacting George Floyd's murder during a class, saying he could get away with murder due to his policing experience, among other things. We hear from the district superintendent. A local musician is celebrating being 15 years breast-cancer free with a benefit concert. Our first frost usually signals winter, but warmer weather is on the way. Paul Huttner has the forecast. Plus we hear from a Zambian-Minnesotan author who will be sharing her new collection of short stories this weekend at the Twin Cities Book Festival. And a new film is on a mission to prove Minnesota is a basketball state.Our Song of the Day was “Magnified Iris” by 26 Bats! and our Minnesota Music Minute was “Treasure Trove” by Katie Tessman.

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This episode takes OTLP to a place it has not gone before. Dr. Hollie, your host, asked for volunteers to be guests on the podcast during a recent presentation New York with the Transfer Schools. Two random folks in the audience took him up on the offer. These are first timers to the VABB approach and they only had 2 days of learning with Dr. Hollie. The first brave person is Jazmin Rivera-Polanco, principal at Bronx Haven High School. Her incredible journey is a true and authentic New York story that starts in the South Bronx back and, not so ironically, ends in the South Bronx. The second brave soul is Catherine Owens, World Languages teacher at Harlem Renaissance High School. Here incredible journey starts in Minneapolis-St. Paul, namely Woodbury High School (one of our favorite CLR schools) then takes us to the world of Google and lands in Harlem. Listening to these two journeys will inspire and enlighten you. Also, don't miss Dr. Hollie's two cents on the joy of ending your school year CLR strong and vabbulous.Learn more about CLR and Dr. Hollie at www.culturallyresponsive.org and Twitter @validateaffirm

"Big Al" Szolack (born 1950) is a retired American basketball player best known for his time spent on the Washington Generals, the traveling exhibition team who plays against, and always loses to, the Harlem Globetrotters. He played for just the 1974–75 season, one in which the Generals lost all 245 contests. Szolack became a favorite among the Globetrotters and was selected as the "unwitting" participant in many of their pre-determined entertainment plays. Szolack was raised in Woodbury, New Jersey. He was described as "reed-thin" but was a "sniper" on the basketball court while playing for Woodbury High School, from which he graduated in 1968. His ability earned him all-conference and all-county honors, and Szolack then continued his career at Atlantic Cape Community College for two years. After community college, Szolack attended Glassboro State College (now called Rowan University), a then-NAIA school located in Glassboro, New Jersey. He was an integral player on the team, serving as one of their best substitutes off of the bench for head coach Jack Collins. In both seasons the team qualified for the national tournament. Szolack graduated from Glassboro State in the spring of 1973. Right after college, Szolack tried out for the Scranton Apollos in the Eastern Professional Basketball League, but he was the last cut and did not make the roster. He came upon the Washington Generals when he went to see the Globetrotters at the Spectrum in Philadelphia and obtained Red Klotz' phone number. Szolack spent the next year touring the world and playing against (losing to) the Globetrotters. They played seven days a week and sometimes played twice in a day. After his exhibition basketball career ended, he moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and became a bartender. Then, his 54-year-old mother—with whom he was very close—died from a heart attack. He began to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol, and even admitted later to using up to $1,000 worth of cocaine per day for a time. From ages 27 through 34, Szolack's life was in ruins. In an interview, he later admitted, "Drugs turned me into a thief, a liar, a cheat ... One day I found myself sitting in a corner, holding a shotgun. I lived the life of a vampire, peeking out windows for hours at a time. Sometimes I had only enough energy to get from the bed to the sofa. I was sick, very sick. I didn't live ... I existed." He now goes by the nickname Al "Hugs Not Drugs" Szolack and serves as an abuse awareness director at Hammonton High School in Hammonton, New Jersey. He is also a motivational speaker and runs an annual basketball camp which he calls "Big Al's Basketball Camp." Szolack travels across the United States giving speeches, many times at colleges and universities, and he is on the NCAA-approved speaker roster.

Hodan Hassan lives in one of the most diverse areas in Minnesota. Her Minneapolis neighborhood includes East Africans, Native Americans, Black people, white people and people from other ethnic and racial backgrounds. Hassan immigrated from Somalia more than two decades ago. She's a mental health clinician and a self-described social justice advocate who also represents the area in the Minnesota House as a DFL state representative. Hassan worries that many of her young constituents and other students around Minnesota are not getting enough information in school about how to manage money. “I finished high school without knowing anything about personal finances,” said Hassan, 40, who said she learned the hard way. Mark Zdechlik | MPR News Rep. Hodan Hassan, DFL-Minneapolis, wants a personal finance course to be a graduation requirement for Minnesota high schoolers. “I went to college and got myself into a lot of debt, and I thought I was the only person that was struggling with managing personal finances,” Hassan said. “Then I talked to some of my friends who are either immigrants or from communities of color, and I realized that many of us were struggling with this because money is not something that families with lower socio-economics talk about.” There is no requirement in Minnesota that students take a stand-alone course on personal finance. Hassan is pushing legislation that would require all students to take such a class before graduating. In Minnesota, communities of color consistently lag the majority white population in income, employment, home ownership and other measures of wealth. There are likely many reasons for that, but Hassan and others believe that educating students about financial literacy may help begin to change it.   Even though there's no mandate, many Minnesota schools offer some personal finance education. But unlike English, science, math, and social studies there are no standards as to what should be taught. Some schools, including Woodbury High School, offer a course as an elective credit. Greg Waugh enthusiastically teaches the class, which he said is one of the most popular electives at Woodbury High School. “When you have an emergency fund in place, all of the other stresses in your life tend to be more minimal,” Waugh explained to his students. “Everything is just less because you've got that money back there as a security blanket to you — knowing if anything goes wrong, you've got something to fall back on.” Judy Griesedieck for MPR News Greg Waugh, left, teaches financial literacy to Woodbury High School students in the hope of instructing them how to avoid the pitfalls of debt. Waugh said his passion for personal finance education is rooted in his own mistakes. Before becoming a teacher Waugh was a high-income salesperson spending more than he earned. He ended up divorced, laid off and broke.   “I think if students understand at a young age, if they're just smart with the income that they have and the money that they have, whether they go to college or whether they don't, they can be fine,” Waugh said. “They can build wealth and they can be happy and do the things they want to in life.” Classes like Waugh's are becoming more popular across the country, according to Billy Hensley, the president of the National Endowment for Financial Education.  “People are really waking up to the fact that our financial landscape is much more complicated,” Hensley said. “You know, we went from a society where a majority of workers had access to pensions and so forth. And now we all have to be the CFO of our retirement as well as the CFO of our financial lives.”  Breaking the cycle Businesses have CFOs — Chief Financial Officers — but most of us are on our own when it comes to managing the cost of health care, using credit cards, doing taxes, buying a house or a car, planning for retirement and even having enough money on hand to buy groceries. John Pelletier, who runs the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College in Vermont, tracks and grades the way personal finance skills are taught in high schools throughout the country. He applauds Minnesota's move toward joining more than 10 other states which have imposed personal finance high school graduation mandates. That's nearly twice as many as five years ago, Pelletier noted. Like Hassan, Pelletier talks about personal finance education in the context of equity and the cycle of poverty. “And if you want to break that cycle, I think you've got to get this knowledge to those who I believe need it the most,” Pelletier said. “Who are those who are the poorest? And as the data shows, minorities tend, on average, to be in that poor category. And so they're struggling.” Supporters of mandating personal finance education for high school students often point to research done by Montana State University economics professor Carly Urban. By comparing states, Urban has demonstrated when teenagers are taught personal financial management skills, they change their money management behavior for the better. “So their credit scores are higher after they're required to take financial literacy courses in high school,” Urban said. “Also, they're less likely to be delinquent on any of their outstanding debt, which again, is a good thing. And then a really interesting finding, in my mind, is that for students who go on to post-secondary education, they're borrowing smarter.” Judy Griesedieck for MPR News Senior Kenna Smutny listens intently during a high school class taught by Greg Waugh. "Saving is a function of discipline, not about how much money you make”, Waugh tells them. ‘It's an issue of this era' Republicans and Democrats are increasingly in rare agreement when it comes to imposing financial literacy requirements for high school graduates. Last month Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill mandating personal finance education as a graduation requirement after it passed both houses of the Florida Legislature unanimously. “It's an embarrassment if our high schools and even our middle schools don't realize that personal finance is very important to the students,” said Minnesota Rep. Sondra Erickson, R-Princeton. Even though Erickson supports personal finance education, she was one of two Republicans to vote against the bill in the House Education Committee.  “It's best if we leave it up to the locals instead of mandating it,” Erickson said. “I really honor that local control and think that our districts can make that decision. If we leave this up to districts, they might do a better job.” Hodan Hassan countered that without a statewide mandate, many young people are going to continue missing out on critical personal finance skills. “It's a social justice issue. It's an equity issue,” Hassan said. “It's an issue of this era.” 

Dave Preller coached Michelle Young in basketball at Woodbury High School and joined Susie Jones to talk about his former star guard.  Is coach in the show with Michelle?   Find out.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Facilities age and new schools are built. If you are a band director fortunate enough to be faced with new construction or renovations what so you do? Who do you turn to for information? Our two guests today have firsthand knowledge of the process. This conversation will provide you a check-list of things to do or think about for renovations or new construction of music facilities. Tark Katzenmeyer has taught for 18 years in both Minnesota and Florida, with teaching experience at the Middle School Level and the High School Level. He has directed the bands at Woodbury High School for seven academic years. An advocate of chamber music, Tark has done extensive research of effective implementation of chamber music into a high school band program, and believes in the power of small group musicianship. An active performer, Tark has played performances with the Minnesota Symphonic Winds, the Bloomington Medalist Concert Band, the Florida Wind Band, the Southern Winds, the VanderCook College of Music Jazz Ensemble, and various chamber music organizations. Dave Lumley is the Director of Bands at Sartell-St. Stephen High School. Prior to this position he was the Band Director at Cambridge-Isanti HS from 2007-2011. At Sartell he directs two HS Bands, the 8th Grade Band, two Jazz Bands, Pep Band, and the Summer Marching Band. He has served as the Minnesota Music Educators Association Region 8AA Representative since 2018. He also performs most weekends, as a singer and guitarist in a solo acoustic act and also in a cover band. Show timings: (00:00) Introduction (00:51) Description of new facility in Sartell (05:32) Description of renovation in Woodbury (11:48) What did you learn and what would you do differently (15:33) HVAC systems (19:14) Humidity Control (20:03) Project timelines (24:20) Technology (29:03) Final thoughts And that wraps up this episode. If you enjoyed this episode or any other episode, please consider leaving a review on any of the platforms that you listen to the show on: Apple Podcast, Anchor, Breaker, Spotify, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, and Pocket Casts. Your reviews, with or without written feedback, help get the word out about the show. Thank you again for listening. Other Resources Show Hosts Jerry Luckhardt https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/luckh001 Bradley Mariska https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-mariska-63ba2855 Facebook Website (Band in Minnesota) https://www.facebook.com/Band-in-Minnesota Woodbury High School Band Website http://whsbb.org/wp/ Marc Dubois (project architect) website http://komainc.com/staff/marc-dubois/ Sartell-St. Stephen ISD 748 https://www.sartell.k12.mn.us/SHS

Host Stanley El and the American Dream team broadcast on location from Woodbury High School to talk about community and seeing that everyone has a fair opportunity to succeed.

Appellant Nathan McGuire was the head coach for the girls’ basketball program at Woodbury High School. After his coaching contract was not renewed, McGuire brought defamation claims against several parents of his former players. The district court ultimately dismissed all of the defamation claims on summary judgment. The district court concluded that “McGuire, by virtue of his coaching position, is a public official” under Minnesota law and that he failed to establish a genuine issue of material fact with respect to actual malice. The court of appeals affirmed. On appeal to the supreme court, the following issue is presented: whether McGuire is a “public official” for purposes of his defamation claims. (Washington County)

Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication sponsors this report from the KYW Newsradio Newstudies Program which teaches broadcast journalism to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors from throughout the area. From our 2018 graduating class, here is Caitlin McGeehan from Woodbury High School.

I said "no" to a student and later realized I should have said yes. The experience changed my teaching. Follow: @focus2achieve @Jonharper70bd @bamradionetwork Oskar Cymerman is a Chemistry and Principles of Engineering Teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities Metro Area, MN. He frequently blogs about brain-based approaches to learning and classroom design, in addition to starting the "Starbucks My Classroom Project" and #StarbucksMyRoom.

Stress among kids has reached unprecedented levels. Join us as we talk about what teachers can do to help students manage stress. Follow: @bamradionetwork @raepica1 @DrBradJohnson @focus2achieve #edchat #edreform #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf Dr. Brad Johnson is a motivational and speaker of education and fitness and is a speaker with Premiere Speakers Bureau. He is the author of multiple books including Learning on Your Feet: Incorporating Physical Activity into the K-8 Classroom . Oskar Cymerman is a Chemistry and Principles of Engineering Teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities Metro Area, MN. He frequently blogs about brain-based approaches to learning and classroom design, in addition to starting the "Starbucks My Classroom Project" and

Our guest is on a mission to transform his classroom from regimented rows and columns of desks to a room that looks more like a cozy coffee shop. Join us as we follow one teacher's quest to Starbucks his classroom. Follow: @coolcatteacher @focus2achieve @CDPub @bamradionetwork #edtechchat #edchat #edtech Oskar Cymerman is a Chemistry and Principles of Engineering Teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities Metro Area, MN. He is interested in and frequently blogs about brain-based approaches to learning and classroom design. In addition to starting the "Starbucks My Classroom Project" and #StarbucksMyRoom, he is currently writing a book titled "Crush School: Every Student's Guide To Killing It In The Classroom."

Our guest is on a mission to transform his classroom from regimented rows and columns of desks to a room that looks more like a cozy coffee shop. Join us as we follow one teacher's quest to Starbucks his classroom. Follow: @coolcatteacher @focus2achieve @CDPub @bamradionetwork #edtechchat #edchat #edtech Oskar Cymerman is a Chemistry and Principles of Engineering Teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities Metro Area, MN. He is interested in and frequently blogs about brain-based approaches to learning and classroom design. In addition to starting the "Starbucks My Classroom Project" and #StarbucksMyRoom, he is currently writing a book titled "Crush School: Every Student's Guide To Killing It In The Classroom."