{"id":11907,"date":"2013-08-23T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kents-heath-up-for-people-magazines-teacher-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:45:38","slug":"kents-heath-up-for-people-magazines-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kents-heath-up-for-people-magazines-teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s Heath up for People Magazine&#8217;s Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Jermoie Heath, a fifth-grade teacher at Kent&#8217;s Pine Tree Elementary School, is among six finalists vying for People Magazine&#8217;s Teacher of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A colleague described Heath as &#8220;the most creative young teacher I have ever met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>According to Heath&#8217;s philosophy, explained on the contest&#8217;s webpage, &#8220;School should be fun for students and teachers, something I think we all forgot when standardized tests came along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In place of books, Heath uses costumes and immersive decorations to completely transform his classroom monthly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The winner will receive a $5,000 donation \u2013\u00a0to be shared with the school \u2013 and be featured in a fall issue of People Magazine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Voting ends Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To learn more and to cast your vote, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/specials.people.com\/teacherofyear\/\" target=\"_blank\">specials.people.com\/teacherofyear<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jermoie Heath, a fifth-grade teacher at Kent&#8217;s Pine Tree Elementary School, is among six finalists vying for People Magazine&#8217;s Teacher of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":11908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}