{"id":9061,"date":"2018-04-15T20:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:38:52","slug":"why-we-teach-share-the-passion-of-our-teacher-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=9061","title":{"rendered":"Why We Teach: Share the Passion of Our Teacher of the Year Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Over the past four weeks, we&#8217;ve shared profiles of teachers who were nominated as their school&#8217;s Teacher of the Year. Learn what inspires them to teach in their own words. Congratulations to all our ACPS Teacher of the Year nominees!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/261554246\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the Teacher of the Year nominee profiles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8720\">Group One<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lisa Bryson, Mount Vernon Community School<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Lauren Herr, Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Jackson, Douglas MacArthur Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Zachary McBride, Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8783\">Group Two<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kara Cashwell,\u00a0Charles Barrett Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Marci El-Baba,\u00a0George Mason Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Meredith Forbes,\u00a0Matthew Maury Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Laura Murphy,\u00a0Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8895\">Group 3<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kellie Haley,\u00a0William Ramsay Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Damian Johnson,\u00a0John Adams Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Monica Koski,\u00a0Samuel Tucker Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Laura Simons,\u00a0T.C. Williams High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8993\">Group 4<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rachel Bhatia,\u00a0Patrick Henry Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Fundalinski,\u00a0George Washington Middle School<\/li>\n<li>Katie Kaplewicz,\u00a0Jefferson-Houston K-8 School<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Neeley,\u00a0James K. Polk Elementary School<\/li>\n<li>Hazel Petty, Francis C. Hammond Middle School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to the ACPS Teacher of the Year:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=9065&amp;preview=true\">T.C. Williams AP Physics Teacher Laura Simons<\/a>,\u00a0and Principal of the Year: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=9070\">George Washington Middle School&#8217;s Jesse Mazur<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from each of the teachers nominated for the ACPS Teacher of the Year Award why they teach, in their own words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,62,16,19,21,20,6,5,76,26,17,13,27,24,23,55,22,28,18,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-achs","category-awards","category-brooks","category-charles-barrett","category-cora-kelly","category-george-mason","category-george-washington","category-hammond","category-highlights","category-jefferson-houston","category-john-adams","category-lyles-crouch","category-macarthur","category-minnie-howard","category-mount-vernon","category-nvjdcs","category-patrick-henry","category-polk","category-ramsay","category-tucker","category-video"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 15:19:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}