{"id":2625,"date":"2016-02-07T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:59:59","slug":"el-dorado-teacher-kathleen-switzer-gives-keynote-speech-at-annual-arts-education-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"El Dorado teacher Kathleen Switzer gives keynote speech at annual arts education conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Jan. 30, El Dorado High School arts teacher and 2015 State Finalist for Teacher of the Year Kathleen Switzer gave the keynote address at the &#8220;Arts at the Center Conference&#8221; at California State University, Fullerton. The theme for this\u00a0second annual event was &#8220;Building Inclusive Practices,&#8221; which emphasized that the arts offer unique opportunities to build inclusive learning environments.<\/p>\n<p>This conference gathered educators and administrators, students and faculty, and youth leaders from Orange County and beyond to participate in a day of workshops and art-making experiences. Participants learned strategies to enhance their arts-infused practices, developed arts advocacy leadership skills and connected with others committed to exploring the relationship between the arts, inclusion and 21st century learning.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Switzer spoke for about 20 minutes about the importance of arts education.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the conference, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.fullerton.edu\/artsed\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Jan. 30, El Dorado High School arts teacher and 2015 State Finalist for Teacher of the Year Kathleen Switzer gave the keynote address&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,15],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-school-district","tag-el-dorado-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}