{"id":18019,"date":"2023-10-02T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2023-10-02T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:43:14","slug":"welcome-andrea-dillard-p-tap-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2023\/10\/02\/welcome-andrea-dillard-p-tap-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Andrea Dillard, P-TAP Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Teacher Education Program is very excited to welcome\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1y7D8wDopKj9pb3jZc9nz8hIJXV8FudDV\/view?usp=sharing\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Dillard<\/a>\u00a0as the new Program Director for the\u00a0<i>Para-to-Teacher Advancement Pathway (P-TAP).<\/i>\u00a0 This pathway is our newest job-embedded teacher preparation pathway designed for full-time working paraprofessionals and allows them to utilize their para position to meet the expectations for clinical experience to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree and teaching license in ECE, ELEM or SPED.\u00a0 We are currently piloting the program this year with St. Vrain Valley School District through the ON grant we supported the district with, but expect the pathway to expand quickly to other districts across the state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Andrea comes to us with over 30 years experience as a bilingual teacher, instructional coach, and school and district administrator in both DPS &amp; Jeffco.\u00a0 She also taught abroad in Mexico and Venezuela.\u00a0 Most recently she was the Assistant Director of Culturally &amp; Linguistically Diverse Education in Jeffco Public Schools.\u00a0 She is also an alum of SEHD having earned her C&amp;I MA in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education.\u00a0 Learn more about Andrea and her family through her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1y7D8wDopKj9pb3jZc9nz8hIJXV8FudDV\/view?usp=sharing\" rel=\"noopener\">visual bio<\/a>\u00a0she created to share with our partners and P-TAP students.\u00a0 Andrea\u2019s office is LSC 616\u2014please stop by to say hello!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teacher Education Program is very excited to welcome\u00a0Andrea Dillard\u00a0as the new Program Director for the\u00a0Para-to-Teacher Advancement Pathway (P-TAP).\u00a0 This pathway is our newest job-embedded teacher preparation pathway designed for full-time working paraprofessionals and allows them to utilize their para position to meet the expectations for clinical experience to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree and teaching [&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-18019","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\/18019","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=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18023,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions\/18023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}