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What does Social Emotional Learning look like?

I was fortunate to visit with education professionals in the Marshalltown Community School District to learn about how they use Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in their instruction. Sen. Jeff Edler and I visited with Superintendent Theron Schutte, Special Education Director Matt Cretsinger, ...

Cough it up for the animals

Spring time is just around the corner here in Marshalltown. That means the weather is warming up, animals are waking up out of hibernation and our second annual Furr Ball is coming up fast! Our wonderful fundraising committee, headed up by Susan Krough and Peggy Hannam, envisioned and executed ...

Joe Biden turns the American government into Wokeness, Inc.

Last week, as Presidents Day weekend loomed, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine ...

Creative Writing Class of 2023

I had the privilege of “teaching” a Creative Writing Class in Ginnie’s and my home this winter. The reason I put “teaching” in quotation marks is, as anyone who’s ever taught creative writing knows, you don’t really teach creative writing, you just get out of the way and let the ...

Government’s dirty secret

Classified documents are found in Donald Trump’s home! Democrats were outraged! Trump is guilty of “mishandling of some of our nation’s most sensitive secrets” creating “a national security crisis!” said MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Nicole Wallace. Then President Joe Biden got ...

Nikki Haley brings a new face to freedom

The Republican Party’s newest presidential candidate, former South Carolina Gov. and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, introduced herself by showcasing her roots as a child of immigrants. Haley’s family, originally from India, immigrated to the United States in 1969 and ...