{"id":686,"date":"2018-08-17T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=686"},"modified":"2019-01-09T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:42:06","slug":"gearing-up-for-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/gearing-up-for-the-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing Up for the School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 teachers, administrators and counselors from Holdenville, Maud, Okemah, Seminole and Wetumka attended a professional development workshop on Tuesday, August 7 sponsored by the GEAR UP program on the Seminole State College campus. \u00a0The event started with a motivational team building exercise presented by The Drum Cafe.\u00a0 While playing individual drums, each participant was encouraged to understand the importance of his or her role in something much larger.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Room full of people\" class=\"wp-image-688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-788x563.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-500x357.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-1000x714.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GearUpEvent9-1320x943.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the team building drum session, participants received a presentation from Patti Albright who discussed Ruby Payne&#8217;s &#8220;A Framework for Understanding Poverty.&#8221; The event provided those in attendance with in-depth information to understanding class differences and 10 actions that can be implemented in the classroom to achieve impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 teachers, administrators and counselors from Holdenville, Maud, Okemah, Seminole and Wetumka attended a professional development workshop on Tuesday, August 7 sponsored by the GEAR UP program on the Seminole State College campus. \u00a0The event started with a motivational team building exercise presented by The Drum Cafe.\u00a0 While playing individual drums, each participant was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/gearing-up-for-the-school-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gearing Up for the School Year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38,42],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grant-programs","tag-august-2018","tag-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}