{"id":5538,"date":"2019-03-10T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:46:41","slug":"mphs-future-educators-compete-at-state-advance-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-future-educators-compete-at-state-advance-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Future Educators Compete at State, Advance to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant High School Chapter of the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE) attended the Teach Tomorrow Summit in Allen, TX on February 28-March 2.\u00a0 Sixteen MPHS TAFE members competed in eight events and brought home eleven awards, including 2 National Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors Ashley Rodriguez and Lauren Southerland competed in Children\u2019s Literature K-3.\u00a0 They scored in the Top 5 out of 46 teams and have advanced to the National Competition to be held in Dallas, Texas on June 21-25, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>On the Educational Leadership Fundamentals (ELF) Assessment, junior Savannah Mack had the 5th highest score out of 345 testers, earning her a Top 5 award and a Gold certificate.\u00a0 Southerland also earned a Gold certificate while Rodriguez earned a Silver on the ELF test.<br \/>\nIn Bulletin Board, junior Sophy Turner earned a blue ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>In Teacher Created Materials, the team of Maria Colorado and Abby Caamal also earned a blue ribbon, while Zaira Reyes earned a red.<br \/>\nFor Project Visualize, Jashon Pogue and Alexander Guzman brought home a blue ribbon for their teacher appreciation project.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Leslie Caamal, Keyla Plancarte, and Jackie Puente earned a red ribbon for their Chapter Scrapbook titled \u201cLimitless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMount Pleasant High School future educators were allowed the opportunity at the 2019 Teach Tomorrow Summit to showcase their knowledge, talent, and passion for education,\u201d said MPHS TAFE Advisor Aimee Sweeden. \u201cThey represented MPHS with pride and rose to the occasion while presenting their projects.\u00a0 I am so incredibly blessed to be fostering the growth of such wonderfully talented, aspiring teachers.\u00a0 What a great day it is to be a Mount Pleasant Tiger!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pictured:<\/p>\n<p>National Qualifiers Southerland and Rodriguez<br \/>\nGroup photo 1<br \/>\nGroup photo 2<br \/>\nSavannah Mack, top 5 in ELF test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant High School Chapter of the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE) attended the Teach Tomorrow Summit in Allen, TX on February 28-March 2.\u00a0 Sixteen MPHS TAFE members competed in eight events and brought home eleven awards, including 2 National Qualifiers. Seniors Ashley Rodriguez and Lauren Southerland competed in Children\u2019s Literature K-3.\u00a0 They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}