Hello Northrop Families, Our distance learning begins September 8! You can access STEM lessons for learning at home on the specialist teachers' google website.

Click Here to read the Fall 2020 Specialist Newsletter. 

We use the MN Science and STEM standards:

2009

http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4UvKLgqh2t5QzRsREVoeDZ0bjQ/view

and 2019

2019 K-12 Science Standards Commissioner Approved Draft

 MATERIALS NEEDED 

THE ITEMS ON THIS LIST WILL BE DELETED WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED.  SEND ITEMS IN ANY QUANTITIES WITH YOUR CHILD OR DROP OFF IN ROOM 208.  THANKS IN ADVANCE!                           

shoe boxes needed spring of 2021

BIO

I began my teaching experience in Washington, D.C. in 1987 where I spent 10 years there with 2^nd graders.  I received my BA from the College of St. Teresa’s in Winona with specialty areas in Psychology and Speech and Language Pathology.  I almost finished my master’s degree at George Washington University in D.C. but was blessed with two children (who attended Minneapolis public schools). My daughter is beginning a photography career and attending the UofM, and my son is attending law school  after working in Washington D.C.. I am now working on my master's degree which is geared toward 21st Century learning and digital tools. I began job sharing in 1st, 6th and 4th grade at Northrop when I moved back to Minnesota in 1997.  In 2010, I began full time teaching as the new STEM teacher, because I love to teach Science and problem solving.  I hope to pass this passion on to your children.  I became interested in teaching science when I noticed that the children in our nation’s capitol were not able to get outside the way we can here in Minnesota.  I wanted these students to have the same opportunity, so I started the first Outdoor Classroom in a National Park in Washington, D.C. where it still exists today.  I also helped to open the National Orkin Insect Zoo in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.  I see the budding scientist in all students!!!