{"id":8458,"date":"2018-05-08T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2025-04-02T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:47:11","slug":"kelly-d-holstine-11named-minnesotas-2018-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/kelly-d-holstine-11named-minnesotas-2018-teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly D. Holstine \u201911 named Minnesota\u2019s 2018 Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8460\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/teach05071807.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8460 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/teach05071807-300x221.jpeg\" alt=\"Kelly D.Holstine \" width=\"205\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/teach05071807-300x221.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/teach05071807.jpeg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly D. Holstine photographed by Jeff Wheeler for Star Tribune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kelly D. Holstine \u201911 is Minnesota\u2019s 2018 Teacher of the Year. She earned her M.A.E. from Augsburg in 2011 and currently teaches at Tokata Learning Center, an alternative high school in Shakopee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Every kid matters\u201d is the motto she&#8217;s carried throughout her 11-year teaching career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Sometimes they might need a little bit of extra love, a little patience, a little more understanding, and once they get that, they can flourish and blossom and excel and learn,\u201d Holstine told the\u00a0<em>Star Tribune<\/em>\u2019s Pat Pheifer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Education Minnesota named Holstine the 2018 Teacher of the Year in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Read full story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-s-teacher-of-the-year-english-teacher-from-shakopee\/481867021\/#1\"><em>Star Tribune<\/em>\u2019s website here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly D. Holstine \u201911 is Minnesota\u2019s 2018 Teacher of the Year. She earned her M.A.E. from Augsburg in 2011 and currently teaches at Tokata Learning Center, an alternative high school in Shakopee. &#8220;Every kid matters\u201d is the motto she&#8217;s carried throughout her 11-year teaching career. &#8220;Sometimes they might need a little bit of extra love, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}