{"id":1039,"date":"2017-06-01T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:26:56","slug":"heather-brown-named-district-secondary-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/2017\/06\/01\/heather-brown-named-district-secondary-teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Brown Named 2017 District Secondary Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Brown was born in Mt. Pleasant and grew up in Omaha. \u00a0She graduated from Paul Pewitt High School and earned her Bachelor\u2019s of Applied Arts \u2013 Liberal Arts from Texas A&amp;M Texarkana. She worked at the Region 8 Education Service Center in school operations for five years before joining the District three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why she became a teacher, Brown said, \u201cAfter five years in education at Region 8, I decided I wanted to be \u2018in the trenches\u2019 of the classroom. I wanted an opportunity to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does she like most about teaching? \u201cThe relationships that develop each year. I get to create relationships and watch them blossom into success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said her philosophy of teaching is that teaching is a strategy that must constantly evolve. \u201cThe goal of teaching must be to create the most effective learning environment for all learners. Your strategy should be research-based and it should grow daily. Successful strategies create successful students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown and her husband, Kary Sears, have two daughters and one son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Brown was born in Mt. Pleasant and grew up in Omaha. \u00a0She graduated from Paul Pewitt High School and earned her Bachelor\u2019s of Applied Arts \u2013 Liberal Arts from Texas A&amp;M Texarkana. She worked at the Region 8 Education Service Center in school operations for five years before joining the District three years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}