Introducing you to the brand-spankin'-new members of the all-powerful A-team, rulers of the lands of Professinonal Learning, the kings of Communities, and all around good-guys, the Swedish Glory Optimist Prime Movers.
In the first corner, we have James "the Killer" Kuang, teacher of physics and physical education , first ninja of his order, so skilled in the art of stealth you hardly notice when he leaves early.
In the other corner we have Marlene "Crikey" Cooper, terror of the Australian outback, lone survivor of the Ayers Rock Pentathlon, feared warrior matriarch of the four-boy Cooper clan, and math teacher extraordinaire.
In the third corner waits "Bad" Brad McMath, brave tribesman of the high north, avid rugby fan, smasher and basher of bones, maker and breaker of history and unsuspecting history students everywhere.
Rounding out the fourth corner we have Miriam Word, the breaker of backs, the silencer of crowds, the great and daring dramatist, teacher of struggling Second Language Learners, with enough fire in her belly to crush a rebellion single-handedly.
And in the fifth and final corner (because apparently we are a pentagon), is Sanna, the Almighty Gabriel, the axe-wielding Viking, blog keeper, the source of knowledge for all things Swedish and sole representative of this great, white land of the north, able to decipher even the most complicated IKEA label. Despite popular demand, she remains a middle school English teacher who would humbly worship at the mighty altar of Shakespeare had it not been considered heretical by the Powers That Be.
We all bow under the beneficent hand of our brave and noble leader, Captain Katie Den Hartog, famed teacher, magnanimous educator, Friday gift-giver, who strides grimly into the iron storm, tenaciously bent on her one-year mission: to explore strange, new worlds of authentic assessment, to seek out professional learning communities and new forms of education, to boldly go where no teacher has gone before.
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