{"id":26036,"date":"2017-01-24T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-launches-ask-a-teacher-campaign\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:16:00","slug":"state-launches-ask-a-teacher-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-launches-ask-a-teacher-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"State launches Ask A Teacher campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2017 legislative session underway and education dominating much of the discussion, Washington&rsquo;s current and former Teachers of the Year have joined together as the Washington Teacher Advisory Council (WATAC) to influence legislative outcomes that work for students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have excellent teachers in Washington, and we need their expertise and passion to inform our decisions,&rdquo; Chris Reykdal, Superintendent of Public Instruction, said in media release. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m thrilled that this group of award-winning teachers is joining the big discussions that will move education forward in our state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>WATAC kicks off the conversation with a Twitter campaign running through Thursday, Jan. 26. Each day will have a theme:<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Tuesday, Jan. 24 &#8211; Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watac.k12.wa.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">WATAC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Wednesday, Jan. 25 &#8211; The newest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12.wa.us\/EducationAwards\/FromSeedToApple.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">From Seed to Apple<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Thursday, Jan. 26 &#8211; Nominations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12.wa.us\/EducationAwards\/TOY\/\" target=\"_blank\">2018 Washington State Teacher of the Year <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to tweet their education-related questions to @waOSPI using #AskATeacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2017 legislative session underway and education dominating much of the discussion, Washington&rsquo;s current and former Teachers of the Year have joined together as the Washington Teacher Advisory Council (WATAC) to influence legislative outcomes that work for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":26037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26036","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\/26036"}],"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=26036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26036"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}