{"id":195,"date":"2014-12-05T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=195"},"modified":"2014-12-05T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T23:53:57","slug":"msde-launches-t-o-y-stories-a-blog-from-teachers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/msde-launches-t-o-y-stories-a-blog-from-teachers-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"MSDE Launches &#8216;T.O.Y. Stories&#8217;: A Blog From Teachers Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>Maryland&#8217;s Honored Educators Will Provide Ideas And Insight From The Classroom<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Department of Education today launched \u201c<a title=\"T.O.Y. Stories\" href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/category\/blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">T.O.Y. Stories<\/a>,\u201d a biweekly blog from the State\u2019s Teachers of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaryland is fortunate to have some of the nation\u2019s finest educators at work in its public school classrooms,\u201d said State Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery.\u00a0 \u201cT.O.Y. Stories aspires to elevate the voices of Teachers of the Year from throughout the State and captures their thoughts, practices, and ideas about many aspects of teaching and learning.\u00a0 Teachers\u2019 perspectives are an important part of the public dialog on education\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cT.O.Y Stories\u201d will cover a range of topics selected by teachers, from instructional strategies for increased achievement to thoughts about educational innovation.\u00a0 The teachers\u2019 blog posts are not endorsements.\u00a0 They serve as valuable perspectives and insights from public school classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The first blog post came from Marlo Coppage, a mathematics teacher at Queen Anne\u2019s County High School, where she was named 2013-14 Queen Anne\u2019s County Public Schools Teacher of the Year.\u00a0 She writes about the importance of positive parent engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Her T.O.Y. story marks the first of a number of regular blog posts that will be hosted on MSDE\u2019s website and shared via social media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland&#8217;s Honored Educators Will Provide Ideas And Insight From The Classroom<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nThe Maryland State Department of Education today <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/msde-launches-t-o-y-stories-a-blog-from-teachers-of-the-year\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}