{"id":31511,"date":"2017-11-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-districts-vosper-named-outstanding-teacher-librarian-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:02:32","slug":"kent-school-districts-vosper-named-outstanding-teacher-librarian-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-districts-vosper-named-outstanding-teacher-librarian-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent School District&#8217;s Vosper named Outstanding Teacher Librarian of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher-librarian Mary (Mimi) Vosper of Grass Lake Elementary School is the Washington Library Association (WLA) Outstanding Teacher Librarian of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes teacher-librarians who advocate passionately for reading and learning, engage in innovative learning opportunities, and demonstrate leadership in the greater school community.<\/p>\n<p>Vosper was nominated by Sarah Stoddard, a teacher-librarian\/tech integration specialist, because she has been instrumental in helping shape the district&rsquo;s library media program, and she is a crucial mentor for other teacher-librarians throughout the district. Vosper also supports the work of teacher-librarians at the state level and is a powerful advocate of children&rsquo;s literacy.<\/p>\n<p>Vosper has been with the Kent School District for 17 years where she is co- coordinator of the Battle of the Books initiative in which more than 3,000 elementary students participate districtwide. She also serves on the Washington Children&rsquo;s Choice Picture Books Award committee.<\/p>\n<p>The WLA recognized Vosper at the WLA Fall Conference on Nov. 4 at the School Library Awards Lunch and Business Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher-librarian Mary (Mimi) Vosper of Grass Lake Elementary School is the Washington Library Association (WLA) Outstanding Teacher Librarian of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":31512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31511","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\/31511"}],"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=31511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31511"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}