
{"id":10207,"date":"2010-04-29T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2010-04-29T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:05:53","slug":"carrboro-teacher-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/04\/29\/carrboro-teacher-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrboro teacher honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIF International Education is proud to honor five of its visiting exchange teachers in the 2010 International Educator of the Year awards program, including Carrboro Elementary School teacher Luz Mery Su\u00c3\u00a1rez.<\/p>\n<p>Su\u00c3\u00a1rez, who is a first-grade Spanish instructor in the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dual-language program, has been teaching in the U.S. for two years through VIF, an international exchange program for teachers. Chosen from among 45 nominees, Su\u00c3\u00a1rez has shown innovation and initiative in the classroom and has created opportunities for her students to explore other cultures and countries, master new languages and broaden their perspectives. She is the second Carrboro Elementary School teacher in two years to receive the award, with former teacher Helen Crompton receiving the honor last year. <\/p>\n<p>Su\u00c3\u00a1rez had eight years experience teaching literacy in her hometown of Bogot\u00c3\u00a1, Colombia. Her language proficiency and professional training helped her work with other instructors at Carrboro Elementary to develop a complex dual-language curriculum successfully. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has been great to see the students\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 progress,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Su\u00c3\u00a1rez said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At the beginning, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak Spanish. At the end of the year, they are writing, they are speaking, they are reading \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they are doing it all.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIF International Education is proud to honor five of its visiting exchange teachers in the 2010 International Educator of the Year awards program, including Carrboro Elementary School teacher Luz Mery Su\u00c3\u00a1rez. Su\u00c3\u00a1rez, who is a first-grade Spanish instructor in the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dual-language program, has been teaching in the U.S. for two years through VIF, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10208,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions\/10208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}