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John Eggers

John Eggers

John Eggers is a former university professor and principal who lives in the Bemidji, Minnesota, area. He writes education columns for the Bemidji Pioneer newspaper.

John is a former Peace Corps volunteer in Uruguay, taught in Iran and the inner city of Camden, New Jersey and the reservations of northern Minnesota.

He is also a public speaker and book author. Learn , where you can also purchase his books.

It’s September, and that means football, colored leaves, canning, sweatshirts, church dinners, and catching some fish before the snow flies.
Building trust in the classroom is only possible when you get to know your students. Trust is built on familiarity, sharing, and taking a sincere interest in kids.
I hope you are making a difference in your own life and that you feel you are contributing. Everyone should think about "helping to create a more perfect union."
How frequently are we critical of someone or some group of people without realizing who they are, where they come from, or really anything else?
Every child can read, and children can be motivated to read. Reading is a fun activity. Very few kids who read well fail to graduate. Parents are a child’s first reading teacher.
Yes, it’s summertime, and we need to look alive and change our ways because it’s summertime in Beltrami County.
I learned that we need to thank all of the people involved in restoring these sacred artifacts so we can learn from them and imagine a time in our history when they liberated us from tyranny.
Would I choose a nice plate of fried bullhead over a nice plate of fried walleye? Cooked right, they are as good as any fish in the lake, including our tasty walleye.
Over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone every year. That's a student every 26 seconds — or 7,000 a day.
You love your kids. You need to do the best you can for them. Many people and many agencies are willing to help.