{"id":32701,"date":"2025-04-15T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=32701"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:36:42","slug":"video-jennifer-garcia-is-a-2025-pylusd-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=32701","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Jennifer Garcia is a 2025 PYLUSD Teacher of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jennifer Garcia is a 2025 Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) Teacher of the Year! Jennifer serves as a music teacher at Valadez Middle School Academy in Placentia. This video recaps the day PYLUSD executive leadership members, along with the Presidents of the Association of Placentia-Linda Educators and California School Employees Association (CSEA)and her colleagues surprised her with the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cValadez is blessed to have such a talented music teacher, colleague, and role model in Jennifer Garcia,\u201d shared Principal Will Truong. \u201cShe excels at working with students of all musical backgrounds, recognizing their unique abilities, and fostering their growth as musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To stay up-to-date on PYLUSD, please subscribe to the District\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*This video was created by the El Dorado High School Digital Media Arts Academy (DMAA) under the direction of teacher, Mark Switzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jennifer Garcia: 2025 PYLUSD Teacher of the Year\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWzLRgEkLlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Garcia is a 2025 Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) Teacher of the Year! Jennifer serves as a music teacher at Valadez Middle School&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1178,15],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-32701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school","category-school-district","tag-valadez-middle-school-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}