{"id":17,"date":"2017-02-19T20:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-02-19T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:20:21","slug":"hopes-and-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/2017\/02\/19\/hopes-and-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes and Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going into my Kenan Fellows experience, I have a lot of hopes and goals. \u00a0As a soon-to-be second year teacher, I feel I have lots of room for growth. \u00a0One of my biggest hopes is that I connect both with other new\/excited\/risk-taking teachers as well as seasoned\/wise\/experienced teachers, all who, hopefully, share the same passion for teaching and learning. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think the shorter answer may be how could being a Kenan Fellow NOT elevate my teaching career. \u00a0So far, it seems like an experience that will be enriching in all aspects &#8211; ideologically, pedagogically, expanding and deepening my content knowledge, growing as a teacher leader. \u00a0The amount of potential growth from this experience is almost overwhelming. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been on the receiving end of Kenan Fellow leadership and innovation this past year through my colleague and great friend, Taylar Flythe. \u00a0I\u2019ve seen how she has used her experience to enhance her teaching, and also used it to help me enhance my teaching as well as to help other teachers throughout the school. \u00a0I\u2019m hoping that my reach will have the same gravity that hers has. \u00a0I\u2019d love to inspire other teachers to open their horizons, bring back ideas and energy that I could not have found elsewhere, and become a strong teacher leader at my school. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into my Kenan Fellows experience, I have a lot of hopes and goals. \u00a0As a soon-to-be second year teacher, I feel I have lots of room for growth. \u00a0One of my biggest hopes is that I connect both with other new\/excited\/risk-taking teachers as well as seasoned\/wise\/experienced teachers, all who, hopefully, share the same passion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/2017\/02\/19\/hopes-and-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hopes and Goals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ncesari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}