This story is part of the 50@U32 collection celebrating 50 years of teaching and learning. Pat Fair is retiring after 40 years of teaching. This article is ...
Drew Junkins senior year of high school
Going into the summer before his senior year of college, Drew Junkins still had no idea what he wanted to do.
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Even though he’s a teacher now, Bradly actually wasn’t a very good student. He says that if you talked to people that knew him well, they’d be surprised h...
In high school, Kevin Richards focused almost exclusively on football. He spent most of his free time practicing, and it paid off. He was accepted int...
In high school Tess Knepp never fit into one group. She participated in track, theater, headed up the Horticulture Club, and “tried out every style....
Alison Byrnes knew that biking wasn’t her strong suit. After a 2.4 mile swim and a 26 mile run she felt exhausted, and had 112 miles of biking ahead of her. S...
In the summer of 2019, Hunter Hedenberg and her partner Rob were hiking back to the car after a day of rock climbing on a ranch in Wyoming when they encountered...
In 2006 Julia Pritchard went to Wisconsin to compete in the American Birkebeiner, the largest cross country skiing race in North America. Julia competed in the ...
Garret Badeau discovered he was lost. He was kayaking up a river in Bolivia,. he looked around in the pitch black. Then somebody yelled out to him saying he w...
Two years ago Grant Gunther received an email from his sister Elise, with a link to a story about the elderly and what they regret the most about their lives. I...
A busy day in Math White Table: Jim is in his element, lively and animated. Bouncing between tables, he makes sure kids have signed in, teaches math, and offers...
In the back of the library, scattered around the couches, 7th graders were reading their homemade picture books to elementary students. One of the hosts f...
Adrian Wade sits on a bench in the center of her studio, surrounded by her students and the sound of glazed pieces being clinked together.
She is explain...
