Hopkins German Teacher Recognized for Immersion Camp Leadership
Kelly Dirks has been taking students to the Concordia camp for five years.
On the evening of Dec. 1, Hopkins German teacher Kelly Dirks heard her name called out unexpectedly during the middle of a three-course banquet that concludes the German immersion camp she takes students to every year. Dirks had been taking students to “Waldsee”—a Concordia College language program near Bemidji—for five years, bringing 33 students to this year’s camp. Yet she had no idea what was going on. It turns out Dirks was in for a treat: Concordia was taking the opportunity to honor her with its Leadership in Language Award for the five years she’d taken students to the camp. “It was very thoughtful of them to even remember,” she said. Dirks, who teaches German at Hopkins High School and both junior highs, was actually unfamiliar …
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