{"id":48,"date":"2016-02-03T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-02-03T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:48:50","slug":"new-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/2016\/02\/03\/new-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Zimmer Introduction Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1972\/2016\/02\/O.-L.-Smith-Parent-Introduction-Letter.docx\" rel=\"\">O. L. Smith Parent Introduction Letter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear O. L. Smith Parents and Community Members,<\/p>\n<p>Hi, my name is Nick Zimmer.\u00a0 I am your child\u2019s new math teacher.\u00a0 I am very excited to join the O. L. Smith family, and I cannot wait to lead students on an exciting and challenging mathematical journey.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated from Western Michigan University in 2009 with a degree in Elementary Education.\u00a0 My subject area minors are in Mathematics and English Language Arts.\u00a0 After finishing undergraduate schooling my wife and I traveled to Colorado so she could attend graduate school to become a Physician Assistant.\u00a0 During that time I spent three years teaching middle school math at North Middle School in Aurora, Colorado.\u00a0 I also served as a soccer coach, basketball coach, and snowboard club sponsor.\u00a0 When my wife finished her graduate degree in 2012 we moved back to Michigan, and since then I have been teaching middle school math at Holbrook School in Hamtramck.<\/p>\n<p>For the past six years I have been working to become a well-rounded educator who is able to develop strong relationships with students and be a content area expert.\u00a0 I have spent considerable time developing a student centered classroom that focuses on peer-to-peer interactions as well as drawing from students\u2019 collective knowledge base.\u00a0 I hope to get to know your child well so he or she will feel comfortable frequently speaking with myself and other class members about mathematics.\u00a0 Most of all, I will work tirelessly to make the classroom an environment where learners can feel success through math education.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to read a bit about me.\u00a0 I hope to meet you in person quite soon.\u00a0 Please feel free to contact me whenever you have questions or concerns at (313) 827-2800 or at zimmern@dearbornschools.org.\u00a0 I am certain that this school year will conclude on a high note, and go Vikings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O. L. Smith Parent Introduction Letter Dear O. L. Smith Parents and Community Members, Hi, my name is Nick Zimmer.\u00a0 I am your child\u2019s new math teacher.\u00a0 I am very excited to join the O. L. Smith family, and I cannot wait to lead students on an exciting and challenging mathematical journey. I graduated from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zimmern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}