{"id":10958,"date":"2018-01-19T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=10958"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:06:10","slug":"entire-student-body-at-topaz-elementary-school-receives-college-themed-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=10958","title":{"rendered":"Topaz students receive college themed t-shirts thanks to the help of school partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each and every Topaz Elementary School student from preschool to 6th grade recently received a &#8220;Topaz Tigers Are College Bound&#8221; shirt to help promote &#8220;College Shirt Wednesdays&#8221; and reinforce a robust college-going culture on campus. The shirts were made possible by OC United, as well as the school&#8217;s PTA and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>AVID is a program dedicated to closing the achievement gap by preparing ALL students for college and other post-secondary opportunities. Teachers trained in AVID\u2019s research-based strategies apply these proven practices to ensure their students are college and career ready.<\/p>\n<p>As an AVID elementary school site, Topaz&#8217;s teachers from grades three through six are trained in student success skills, organization skills, and WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot wait to see all of our Topaz Tigers \u201cROAR\u201d with pride wearing their new t-shirts!&#8221; shared the school&#8217;s proud principal, Christa Borgese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each and every Topaz Elementary School student from preschool to 6th grade recently received a &#8220;Topaz Tigers Are College Bound&#8221; shirt to help promote &#8220;College&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[123,79,300,1734,101],"class_list":["post-10958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-advancement-via-individual-determination","tag-avid","tag-tigers","tag-topaz","tag-topaz-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}