{"id":8405,"date":"2014-01-28T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/puerto-rican-officials-visit-mattson-middle-school\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:05:30","slug":"puerto-rican-officials-visit-mattson-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/puerto-rican-officials-visit-mattson-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rican officials visit Mattson Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mattson Middle School hosted 18 civic officials from Puerto Rico on January 23.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The visitors came to Mattson to see how teachers utilize technology in the classroom. They visited and interacted with students and staff, and they learned how the District\u2019s \u201c1:1 laptop program\u201d impacts student achievement. 1:1 is the program that allows each student to have his or her own school-issued laptop in grades 7-12. The Puerto Rican visitors learned about the logistics of the program for a district the size of Kent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThese visits give me an incredible opportunity to share with students that they have an educational advantage that most students (locally, state-wide, nationally, and internationally) don\u2019t have,\u201d said DeWayne Lindh, administrative intern and mentor-teacher. \u201cI then encourage my students to act with stewardship and citizenship to make the most of our 1:1 opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe efforts we put into making sure our students are successful as global citizens are recognized around the world,\u201d said Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas. \u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to share our efforts with international peers who have the same high hopes for their students.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattson Middle School hosted 18 civic officials from Puerto Rico on January 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8405","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\/8405"}],"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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}