Thuente, Patrick

Mr. Patrick Thuente

My education background includes a bachelor's degree in elementary education with a focus on Social Studies from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, a master's in Educational Technology from Concordia University Saint Paul, and an Education Specialist degree also from Concordia. I have been at Crossroads since the fall of 2013.  I am a life long resident of Saint Paul and currently live here with my wife and three children.

Educational technology has been a passion of mine since first having my own classroom.  It started early with PowerPoint presentations and a projector and quickly led to students using individual devices to create and share on.  I believe that technology plays a role in our student's lives, but it should be for a specific purpose related to the curriculum and lesson.  Building future computer science majors, biomedical engineers, and robot developers for all of our students is a goal of mine as we implement our STEM focus here at Crossroads.

My role at Crossroads includes technology coordinator and technology integration.  I work with staff on training them to be better prepared to use technology successfully with their students.  I work with teachers by leading technology lessons by pushing in to the classrooms and working with students.  I work closely with our STEM team to develop and implement our plan of integrating technology into the science, engineering, and math crosscurricular units we develop.  I am also the webmaster for the school website.