{"id":13527,"date":"2014-11-30T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=13527"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:07:53","slug":"mike-gange-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/mike-gange-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Gange: Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gange is an award winning teacher, writer and broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>Mike teaches at Fredericton High School, in Fredericton, N.B, Canada. He\u00a0 is a pioneer in teaching media studies,<br \/>\nand a recognized leader in media education in Canada. He also teaches journalism, and helps his students get<br \/>\npublished in a wide variety of media. His students\u2019 work has twice been named the best student journalism in<br \/>\nNew Brunswick, while individuals from his classes have won numerous awards and recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to becoming a teacher, Mike worked as a journalist in radio, television and print, in small, medium and large<br \/>\nmarkets across Canada. He regularly writes book reviews for his local papers, The Saint John Telegraph Journal<br \/>\nand the Fredericton Daily Gleaner. He has published nearly 100 book reviews, mostly about the mass media and<br \/>\npopular culture. Since 1999, he has averaged better than one review per month.\u00a0 He often contributes articles and<br \/>\nreviews to Telemedium, the Journal of Media Studies.<\/p>\n<p>During the university sports seasons, he calls play-by-play action on hockey and basketball games for the University<br \/>\nof New Brunswick on both television and the Internet. He gets many of his students involved in the sports coverage<br \/>\nof these games, getting them to work in some capacity on the remote broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>While on a sabbatical from teaching, he returned to the media, working as a journalist in Canadian parliament in<br \/>\nOttawa and at professional hockey\u00a0and baseball games in Toronto, Ottawa, New York, Montreal, Baltimore and Atlanta.<br \/>\nHe has written a book about those experiences and is in the process of getting it published.<\/p>\n<p>Mike devotes a large part of his efforts to promoting Professional Development for teachers, within his school and beyond.<br \/>\nHe is a popular and dynamic\u00a0presenter at teachers\u2019 functions across his province and at National and International conferences.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Mike was awarded the Prime Minister\u2019s Award for Teaching Excellence, the most prestigious award<br \/>\nthat can be earned by a Canadian teacher. He also was named \u201cTeacher of the Year\u201d by the New Brunswick Teacher\u2019s Association.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to make contact, you can reach him at <a href=\"mailto:michael.gange@nbed.nb.ca\">michael.gange@nbed.nb.ca<\/a>\u00a0 or <a href=\"mailto:observ@nbnet.nb.ca\">observ@nbnet.nb.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gange is an award winning teacher, writer and broadcaster&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resources"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36695,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions\/36695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}