By Merlin Zimmerman As the school year begins, it strikes me how much Mini-School is a mixture of the old and the new. Take our new students, for example. We have 35 new students – about half the program – but among them there are many familiar faces. Mini-School teachers teach several of Minnetonka’s Summer … [Read more…]
By Merlin Zimmerman The first quarter of 2001-2002 has been an exciting one in Mini-School. Several students have graduated during the first few weeks of school: Josh Reisgies, Andy Sheats, James O’Day, Tyson Haeg and Matt Prich. It feels good to be a part of Mini-School, a place where so many people find their goals … [Read more…]
By Merlin Zimmerman Early in the school year, I spent several days in Estes Park, Colorado. I used to live just 50 miles north of there in the low valley of Red Feather Lakes, but I was not in Colorado to visit friends… or to make them. I was there to win! I was there … [Read more…]
By Merlin Zimmerman September 1999 marks the beginning of the first school year in which none of the original founders of Mini-School remains on its staff. How shall we begin the New Era? Do we act like nothing has changed? That won’t work. Do we throw out the old and rebuild from the ground up? … [Read more…]