Peter Welle

History teacher, Teaching for Transformation school designer, Cocoa Krispies enjoyer; looking for the bright side

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

I'm proud to share that I was named as one of three honorees from the state of Minnesota for the 2023 Outstanding Educator Award from the Synergy & Leadership Exchange. I was humbled and honored by this lovely surprise.

Life is funny, guys. Enjoy the good bits when they arrive.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

Here's a promo video for my new music if you want to sample the wares. Four songs about the big, immovable parts of life we'll all have to walk through.

https://t.co/Bw1Ittdr9T

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

I put some new music out today! This EP began with a song I wrote for my grandfather after he passed away, and from there we hit a vein of songs that were of a piece - bittersweet, hurt but hopeful, told with warm melodies and harmony. Give it a listen!

https://t.co/PZ6Bi1PpJQ

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

I had the pleasure of leading a day of Teaching for Transformation PD at Coastal Christian HS in Wilmington, NC. Great crew here who showed up ready to lean into the big stuff.

Afterwards, the Minnesotan in me appreciated being seated at the correct table for dinner. #grits

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

@AdamOmelianchuk Yeah, I was Field Marshall Stalin walking down the cereal aisle, surveying the troops in all their proud, doomed beauty.

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I just overheard my wife upstairs say to my kids, "Your father could do a TED Talk on cereal."

I feel seen and loved.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

My kid came home from school with a recorder and sheet music for Hot Cross Buns.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

When that day arrives that I am laid to rest, I would like to be interred with a red pen and a stack of DBQ essays I never got around to grading.

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But did it have good wifi?

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is Portland high school in 1904. Completed in 1885, it stood at SW 14th and Morrison until it was demolished in 1929, 44 years later.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

It wasn't originally the plan, but by the time they graduate, my kids will have gotten to experience homeschool, public charter school, and Christian school. I'm grateful for all of these and the ways my kids will have been shaped by them.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

"Human rights are just a fictional story...they are not a biological reality."

While I actually give him credit for articulating an internally consistent implication of reductive materialism, it is clear that the speaker has not stopped to consider that his claim to an objective "biological reality" is a story too.

Every view we have of the world is a view from somewhere. We inherit from that place a storied lens by which we see through.
What would be more appropriate to say (and self-aware) is that the materialist story of our secular age has no foundation to make coherent claims for the existence of human rights.
There are other stories that do. If we want to keep human rights, we should find a better story.

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

Every middle school currently has $2,500 worth of Stanleys and other tumblers in lost and found.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

@jbfeig @RBrookhiser Appreciate this. Thanks!

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@ScotBertram @steadycraig @ND_EthicsCenter @pojanowski The Hold Steady would make for an incredible Political Beats episode.

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@swchssports @SWCHS_GBB She brings those same qualities to the classroom as well!

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@RBrookhiser How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act undo the premise of the Compromise of 1850? Not challenging - just seems like the Compromise was a bit of a hodgepodge without a coherent premise.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

Good news, bad news at my daughter's 6th grade basketball tournament today.

Good news: she just scored the first bucket for her team after a scrappy rebound!

Bad news: they're now losing 50-2, with two more games awaiting them.

[Eric Kalenze @erickalenze]

The more I look at Twitter, the more I want to read a book instead.

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

I'm grateful for my 2023. I took my lumps and had to say some goodbyes, but also learned a lot and found joy in my work and friends. Add to that a lot of great family moments, good health, and an adventure or two, and that made for a pretty good year. Thankful to God. On to 2024!

[Peter Welle @PeterWelle]

My favorite reads of 2023.