Snelling Connection Newsletter of the Hancock/Hamline University Collaboration
College Began In Kindergarten
College Begins in Kindergarten (CBiK)
From: http://www.firstinthefamily. org/hardfacts/
In This Issue: 1
City Serve
2
Letter From Editor
2
New Faces at Hancock
3
From the Desk of...
4
On the Issues
5
New Tutor Profiles
6
Meet Hancock Editors
6
Volume 11, Issue 1
By Heather Schabert Hamline Student
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ancock/Hamline University Collaborative Magnet School and Hamline University complete a circle for senior Sheila Kandels. She is one of several Hamline students who are alumni of Hancock. At Hamline, she is a history major and an education minor, but she acquired her love of learning from a special teacher’s influence at Hancock. Now, with her degree in teaching, she wants to impart that love of learning to others. Sheila transferred to Capitol Hill in fifth grade, but she was back at Hancock the next year. Hancock just “felt like home,” she said. Because Hamline makes an effort to include Hancock children in campus life and exposes children to
Sheila (left) at Hancock’s annual Earth Day festival on Hamline’s campus in 1998. the opportunities available through enthusiasm when she arrived for higher education, Sheila “felt con- her first clinical. Following her fornected to Hamline University as a mer teacher’s lead, she found that young girl.” she captured the attention of the These early experiences instilled children through gentle encouragea desire to pursue higher educa- ment and assisted them by drawing tion there, especially in light of her on Ms. Bloom’s methods. In short, aspirations to become she loved teaching. a teacher. In addition Due, in part, to her educational to the educational experiences, Sheila displays strong benefits, the extracur- leadership qualities that she will ricular activities such take into her professional career as Earth Day were at- and personal life. She acknowledgtractive. Sheila recalled es her strengths and weaknesses walking across Snel- but makes use of the opportunities ling Avenue as a child given to her allowing for personal on many occasions to growth after her Hancock-Hamtake campus tours and line experience. As she aptly stated, visit college dorms. she doesn’t need to compare herLast Spring, Sheila self with others. She strives to betwas a student teacher ter herself based on past achieveat Hancock. By luck ments and failures. of the draw, she was Maintaining the relationship beplaced with her sec- tween Hamline University and ond grade teacher Ms. Hancock is essential to many chilBloom, who called dren’s futures, and Sheila is an exSheila and a friend, sixth graders, on Hamline’s campus. out her name with ample of such a child.
Glynis Grostephan
Hancock Alum
Hancock Alum Attends Hamline University
Fall 2007
Glynis Grostephan
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