{"id":16835,"date":"2019-11-01T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=16835"},"modified":"2019-11-01T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:21:20","slug":"karen_mcdonough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2019\/11\/01\/karen_mcdonough\/","title":{"rendered":"Following My Purpose in AACPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-one-full fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-sep-none fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\">Karen McDonough<\/h2><\/div><h3><strong>I am\u00a0an AACPS:<\/strong>\u00a0Bilingual Facilitator,\u00a0<em>Office of School &amp; Family Partnerships<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-one-third fusion-layout-column fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><span class=\"fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Karen_McDonough-e1572632213276.jpg\" alt=\"Karen McDonough with the Mexican flag painted on her cheek.\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-one-half fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><p>My journey with AACPS began as the parent of a Special Education student at Central Special. I was guided to AA County vs Virginia when we moved here from southern California mainly due to the Special Education services. It has always been a choice I am happy with. I began serving as an interpreter in Special Education as it has been and always will be my first love. I quickly learned that I was surrounded by professionals who chose their field due to a love of kids and a desire to help. Those staff people influenced my choice to go beyond an hourly interpreter to becoming a Bilingual Facilitator. Every day working with parents who are in search of a better future for their children allows me to be thankful and at the same time have a purpose. I truly love my job!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My journey with AACPS began as the parent of a Special Education student at Central Special.&#8221;&#8211;Karen McDonough, Bilingual Facilitator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":16837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,130,133,132,334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centralspecial","category-aacps_story","category-community_stories","category-employee_stories","category-specialty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16842,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions\/16842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}