Spirit of Maryville 2016: Patrick McPartland

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Patrick McPartland, ’14, earned his master’s in education at Maryville. For the past 25 years, he has served as a social studies educator at Parkway South High School. In addition, he has been an advocate and partner for Maryville’s Master of Arts in Education/Secondary Teaching and Inquiry program for the past 16 years.

In this capacity he has supervised pre-service teachers, conducted classroom observations, and worked as colleague alongside Maryville faculty to ensure the professional growth of our teacher candidates. McPartland was elected to serve as the Parkway National Education Association President for 2015-16 by the teachers.