{"id":6876,"date":"2013-11-01T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-meridian-to-host-bilingual-workshop-for-latino-students\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:00:30","slug":"kent-meridian-to-host-bilingual-workshop-for-latino-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-meridian-to-host-bilingual-workshop-for-latino-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent-Meridian to host bilingual workshop for Latino students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A \u00a1La Chispa! Regional Workshop is set for Kent-Meridian High School from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Kent-Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St., Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The workshop is a one-day event designed to teach leadership skills to middle school level Latino students. \u00a1La Chispa! (the spark) uses English and Spanish to help students build self-confidence, strengthen their cultural identity and increase academic success.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Host schools throughout the state provide 15-20 high school students to serve as small group leaders, creating growth opportunities for middle level mentees and high school mentors. Each high school that hosts a \u00a1La Chispa! Regional Workshop helps serve between 100-250 middle level Latino students.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information, please see the \u00a1La Chispa! flier and webpage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacima.org\/lachispa\" target=\"_blank\">www.lacima.org\/lachispa<\/a>). Registration materials can also be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacima.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.lacima.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The \u00a1La Chispa! Bilingual Workshops are delivered by the student leadership program of the Association of Washington School Principals.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a1La Chispa! Regional Workshop is set for Kent-Meridian High School from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Kent-Meridian High School, 10020 SE 256th St., Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876"}],"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=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}