
Andrew Patterson
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Andrew Patterson
@PattersonDMPS
Teacher at Callanan Middle School in Des Moines, IA. Product of @OPSCentralHigh. Follow our class Twitter: @mrpattersoncms. #innov8dmps #10000hours


The greatest achievement by climate change deniers has been fooling the #scicomm community into wasting much time, effort & resources on an unmovable fringe constituency--time, effort & resources that would have better been spent bringing along the "confused middle" & concerned.


Implementing a culturally responsive curriculum goes beyond hanging up posters and revising test questions. Teachers must move on from the Eurocentric historical narrative that’s traditionally dominated education. #bethemodel #innov8dmps twitter.com/mrpattersoncms…

We are learning about how Virunga National Park rangers protect endangered mountain gorillas 🦍. Later this week, students are going to come up with ways that they can help bring about meaning change in the eastern Congo!

Students explained and connected different historical concepts through writing aka we had a quiz! Infinite Campus will be updated over the weekend. #lockedin #focusedfriday

This week, we have been learning how Nelson Mandela used symbols to inspire resistance to apartheid! ✊🏽We are then making connections to events in 🇺🇸!

We played a game called Muggles and Wizards. Tomorrow, we will make real world connections and discuss who won/lost!

Students compared and contrasted thematic maps to understand the impact of colonization! We also practiced using OneNote to submit 📝!

We are creating thematic maps of Africa so we can make inferences about the impact of European colonization!






We continued to learn about Mansa Musa by identifying relevant text evidence. Block 2 was in mid-year form this morning! 😊






