{"id":664,"date":"2014-03-11T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=664"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:30:58","slug":"media-advisory-department-of-environment-secretary-summers-to-mark-read-across-maryland-month-discuss-climate-change-with-students-at-the-siena-school-in-silver-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2014\/03\/11\/media-advisory-department-of-environment-secretary-summers-to-mark-read-across-maryland-month-discuss-climate-change-with-students-at-the-siena-school-in-silver-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"**Media Advisory** Department of Environment Secretary Summers to mark Read Across Maryland month, discuss climate change with students at The Siena School in Silver Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contact Information:<\/b>
\nSamantha Kappalman
\nsamantha.kappalman@maryland.gov<\/b><\/a>
\nAdrienne Diaczok
\nadrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov<\/b><\/a>
\n410-537-3003<\/a><\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

**Media Advisory**\u00a0Department of Environment Secretary Summers to mark Read Across Maryland month, discuss climate change with students at The Siena School in Silver Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n

(BALTIMORE, MD)\u00a0 March 11, 2014<\/strong> \u2013 The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Secretary Robert M. Summers will visit with students at The Siena School in Silver Spring to celebrate Read Across Maryland month on Wednesday, March 12. The Secretary will read excerpts from \u201cThe Magic School Bus and The Climate Challenge\u201d and discuss the impacts of climate change with fourth- and fifth-grade students. The book explains why the earth is getting warmer and brings a new, improved understanding to climate change, engaging and empowering youngsters to be a part of the solution.<\/p>\n

The Siena School offers an educational program for bright, college-bound students who are challenged by language-based learning differences such as dyslexia. The program is designed for students with mild to moderate needs who experience a discrepancy between their intellectual abilities and academic achievement.<\/p>\n

WHO:
\n<\/strong>Robert M. Summers, Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment
\nFourth- and fifth-grade students in\u00a0 Jennifer Sanzone\u2019s class<\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong> \u00a0The Siena School<\/a> – 1300 Forest Glen Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20901<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong> \u00a0Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

WHY:<\/strong>\u00a0 March marks Read Across Maryland month. An offshoot of the National Education Association\u2019s\u00a0 Read Across America initiative, Read Across Maryland is sponsored by the Maryland State Education Association.\u00a0 The program encourages students to read at least 30 minutes for 30 days beginning on March 2, the birthday of beloved children\u2019s author Dr. Seuss, and ending March 31st.<\/p>\n

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  Contact Information: Samantha Kappalman samantha.kappalman@maryland.gov Adrienne Diaczok adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov 410-537-3003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: **Media Advisory**\u00a0Department of Environment Secretary Summers to mark Read Across Maryland month, discuss climate change with students at The Siena School in Silver Spring (BALTIMORE, MD)\u00a0 March 11, 2014 \u2013 The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Secretary Robert M. Summers will  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-2","category-secretary-summers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}