{"id":14352,"date":"2020-04-27T11:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:37:46","slug":"aspire-to-teach-program-candidate-featured-in-local-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2020\/04\/27\/aspire-to-teach-program-candidate-featured-in-local-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPIRE to Teach program Candidate Featured in Local Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt DeJong is a business teacher at John Mall High School in Huerfano, Colo., and a candidate in the ASPIRE to Teach program.<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/16jJhGXlaNNx0-cPZlT42iKENeGliGtlgnF3V8GOVpJE\/edit?usp=sharing\">In this article from the Huerfano newspaper<\/a>, Matt shares important insights on the COVID-19 virus&#8217;s impact on students and families. Matt is an excellent example of a career-changer who, like several ASPIRE candidates, is able to leverage his his previous career to great success in the classroom. Having worked through a banking and housing crisis in 2008, he is able to bring important lived experience and perspectives to these difficult times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt DeJong is a business teacher at John Mall High School in Huerfano, Colo., and a candidate in the ASPIRE to Teach program.In this article from the Huerfano newspaper, Matt shares important insights on the COVID-19 virus&#8217;s impact on students and families. Matt is an excellent example of a career-changer who, like several ASPIRE candidates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}