{"id":12781,"date":"2018-12-19T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:40:22","slug":"candice-montoya-head-start-educator-and-sehds-2018-outstanding-graduate-of-the-year-featured-in-cu-denver-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2018\/12\/19\/candice-montoya-head-start-educator-and-sehds-2018-outstanding-graduate-of-the-year-featured-in-cu-denver-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Candice Montoya, Head Start educator and SEHD\u2019s 2018 Outstanding Graduate of the Year, featured in CU Denver TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grad teaching preschoolers in poverty<\/h2>\n<h3>Candice Montoya is SEHD&#8217;s 2018 Outstanding Graduate of the\u00a0Year<\/h3>\n<p>Knowledge changed everything for Candice Montoya, who was named the School of Education &amp; Human Development\u2019s 2018 Outstanding Graduate of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya started college to meet a job requirement, and she graduated this month with a degree in early childhood education.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of two worked full time as a Head Start educator and had a part-time gig cleaning office buildings when she enrolled at the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t about school,\u201d said Montoya, who had worked in child care for more than a decade and didn\u2019t expect to learn much that was new. \u201cMy perceptions of a quality education were set in stone, and I didn\u2019t want to be doing anything different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cudenvertoday.org\/ece-grad-teaching-preschoolers-in-poverty\/\">[Check out the full story on CU Denver TODAY]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grad teaching preschoolers in poverty Candice Montoya is SEHD&#8217;s 2018 Outstanding Graduate of the\u00a0Year Knowledge changed everything for Candice Montoya, who was named the School of Education &amp; Human Development\u2019s 2018 Outstanding Graduate of the Year. Montoya started college to meet a job requirement, and she graduated this month with a degree in early childhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}