33 min
Lisa Hartman- Educator, Principal, Spanish Speaker, and Passionate Equity Advocate UNiQUE Conversations
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Lisa is in her 36th year as a public school educator. During the first 16 years of her career, she taught secondary Spanish in Minnesota and elementary English in a public school in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She served as a Teacher Trainer for a Teacher College in Paraguay, South America as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1991-1993. Her undergraduate degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Her M.A. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of St. Thomas and she did her doctoral coursework at St. Thomas as well (didn’t complete my dissertation—just coursework).
For the last 20 years, she has served as a secondary principal at the high school and middle school level in several different districts and buildings. Her passion is equity leadership and this year she was asked to lead a special project for her district with the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center. We are engaging in an Equity Capacity Analysis Process which will help build capacity for equity-oriented strategic planning as our district works to update our strategic plan. She is also assigned to provide principal support to our District Learning Academy. She was in a lead principal position last year as we transitioned from school to distance learning.
Lisa is the mother of three children who are experiencing the COVID pandemic very differently.
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Lisa is in her 36th year as a public school educator. During the first 16 years of her career, she taught secondary Spanish in Minnesota and elementary English in a public school in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She served as a Teacher Trainer for a Teacher College in Paraguay, South America as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1991-1993. Her undergraduate degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Her M.A. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of St. Thomas and she did her doctoral coursework at St. Thomas as well (didn’t complete my dissertation—just coursework).
For the last 20 years, she has served as a secondary principal at the high school and middle school level in several different districts and buildings. Her passion is equity leadership and this year she was asked to lead a special project for her district with the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center. We are engaging in an Equity Capacity Analysis Process which will help build capacity for equity-oriented strategic planning as our district works to update our strategic plan. She is also assigned to provide principal support to our District Learning Academy. She was in a lead principal position last year as we transitioned from school to distance learning.
Lisa is the mother of three children who are experiencing the COVID pandemic very differently.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realm-unlimited/support
33 min