{"id":8884,"date":"2016-11-15T18:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T22:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2016-11-21T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:56:57","slug":"barbara_holcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2016\/11\/15\/barbara_holcomb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Students Vote: The Principal is Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Submitted by: Barbara Holcomb, School Counselor<\/h2>\n<p><strong>I am an AACPS:<\/strong>\u00a0Employee, Point Pleasant Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>Our Student Government Association sponsors a quarterly award where students in grades 1-5 can vote for the Sunshine Award, which recognizes a staff member who is excellent, caring, and supportive of the students. We have a new Principal and this year Mr. Gordon received about 12 student votes which is a lot, since students most often vote for the classroom teachers who they spend the most time with. For Mr. Gordon to receive this number of votes means the students know he&#8217;s interested in them, as he is there in the hallways talking with children and coming into the classrooms sometimes to read books. Mrs. Elliott, a 3rd Grade Teacher, won for this quarter, but the votes for Mr. Gordon show the students think he is kind and supportive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our Student Government Association sponsors a quarterly award where students in grades 1-5 can vote for the Sunshine Award, which recognizes a staff member who is excellent, caring, and supportive of the students&#8230;the votes for [Principal] Mr. Gordon show the students think he is kind and supportive.&#8221;&#8211;Barbara Holcomb, School Counselor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":8885,"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":[141,130,132],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glen_burnie_stories","category-aacps_story","category-employee_stories","tag-school-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","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=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}