{"id":4724,"date":"2018-04-15T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2018-06-15T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:55:02","slug":"why-we-teach-share-the-passion-of-all-our-teacher-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/why-we-teach-share-the-passion-of-all-our-teacher-of-the-year-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Teach: Share the Passion of Our Teacher of the Year Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past four weeks, we&#8217;ve shared profiles of exemplary teachers who were nominated as their school&#8217;s <strong>Teacher of the Year<\/strong>. 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: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=4715&amp;preview=true\">T.C. Williams\u00a0AP Physics Teacher Laura Simons<\/a>,\u00a0and Principal of the Year: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=4719&amp;preview=true\">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":10,"featured_media":4736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kudos-to-staff"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 15:52:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4755,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}