Full-time student teaching in local classrooms is required for graduation from the University of St. Thomas School of Education and for a teaching license in Minnesota, but education majors had to adjust to online instruction when schools switched to remote learning due to the pandemic.
Police fired tear gas at crowds in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, and four St. Thomas School of Education faculty and staff have sewed and distributed over 1,200 masks. Reporter Natalie Hoepner has today’s News in :90.
When the pandemic set in last spring, four faculty and staff members in the St. Thomas School of Education, Anne Howard, Debbie Monson, Ea Porter and Bridgette Smith, took it upon themselves to spread joy by sewing and distributing over 1,200 masks for homeless shelters, medical workers, grocery clerks, librarians, and others within the Twin Cities and beyond.
