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ANOKA-HENNEPIN SCHOOL BOARD
VOL 31 NO 3
Focus is a service for residents of the Anoka-Hennepin School District published to keep them informed about the investment in their public schools and students. The Anoka- Hennepin School District serves more than 38,000 students and a population of 234,308 residents in 13 communities: Andover, Anoka, Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Coon Rapids, Dayton, Fridley, Ham Lake, Nowthen, Oak Grove and Ramsey.
Board Chair Tom Heidemann
District 1: Andover, Anoka, western Coon Rapids, Ramsey 763-506-4795
Vice Chair Marci Anderson
District 2: Blaine, eastern Coon Rapids
763-433-4150
Treasurer Bill Harvey
District 3: Champlin, southwestern Coon Rapids, Dayton 763-506-7743
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Director William Fields
District 4: Andover, Ham Lake, Nowthen, Oak Grove,
Ramsey 763-506-5847
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Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, south / southern Coon Rapids, Fridley 763-433-4151
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Clerk Jeff Simon District 6: southwestern
Andover, northern Coon Rapids
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Graduate Spotlight
Blaine High School grad’ s journey to become an educator brought him back to where it all started: Anoka-Hennepin schools
Deep inside the heart of Blaine High School( BHS), just outside the weight room, Tim Feine’ s picture still hangs on the wall. In 1992, as a junior, he won the state title in the triple jump.
“ Students, they’ d see my photo down there— just this skinny kid back then— and then the next day out on the field joke about it,” Feine said.“ It’ s unique— not too many people end up teaching or coaching at the school they graduated from.”
Indeed. Feine, who graduated from BHS in 1993, has spent his entire professional career preparing students for life in his home school district as a teacher, coach, and now assistant principal— and that’ s something he’ s proud of.
“ Anoka-Hennepin is all I know. It’ s where I went to school and it’ s where I’ ve taught,” he said.“ And I take great pride in that. This is a great place for kids to go to school. My own children go to school here.”
Growing up, Feine went to elementary school at Sand Creek and Jefferson elementary schools, then middle school at Roosevelt, and BHS for high school. As an educator, he began at Fred Moore Middle School in 1998, and has also worked at Roosevelt Middle School, Anoka High School and Andover High School( AndHS), where Feine is currently an assistant principal. He’ s also spent time as a football, basketball, and track coach at BHS and also at AndHS.
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As educators, we have the opportunity to positively influence kids, and aside from their parents, others can’ t say that, and it’ s a big deal.
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Tim Feine, Blaine High School graduate, assistant principal Andover High School
SPRING 2016
Andover High School assistant principal Tim Feine is actually a product of Anoka-Hennepin schools. Before becoming a teacher and coach in the district in 1998, he was first a 1993 Blaine High School graduate who grew up in Anoka-Hennepin.
As luck would have it, he began working in Anoka-Hennepin right after graduating from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul with a teaching degree and health education license.
“ My senior year of college I got an opportunity to coach track at BHS,” he said.“ The following year, after I graduated with my degree, I was hired to coach football there too. So I figured I needed to find something here, and as luck would have it, I got hired at Fred Moore.”
While the foundation for teaching was always there, Feine said he wasn’ t necessarily interested in it right away. His first couple years in college, he was more interested in studying to be a physical therapist for sport-related injuries. He was a football player at St. Thomas, and was a part-time athletic trainer at the university, too.
“ There was this part of me— I always wanted to coach,” he said.“ And in all of my jobs up to continued on page 7