{"id":11219,"date":"2024-01-17T18:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T23:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2024-01-20T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T23:56:24","slug":"teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/01\/teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

De’Shawn Washington, teacher of the year in Massachusetts,<\/a> came to Cohasset at the 20th annual breakfast honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington is a fourth grade teacher at Maria Hastings Elementary School in Lexington, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His was one of the best talks I’ve heard in a long time. He spoke about how Martin Luther King’s message continues to inspire and inform his own teaching practice. But he really shone during the question and answer period after his talk. Of course you’d expect a fourth grade teacher to be able to think on their feet. What I really appreciated, though, was that he kept his focus on children and their families. His worldview is both humane and child-centered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington is speaking frequently across the state this year. If you get a chance to hear him, go. We’re luck to have him representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as our teacher of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington’s talk was sponsored by the Cohasset Diversity Committee<\/a> and the Cohasset Clergy. The hosting congregation this year was First Parish in Cohasset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De’Shawn Washington at the podium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(I had this post written then got caught up in work responsibilities and forgot to post it on Wed. So the post is dated Wed. but was actually posted on Sat.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

De’Shawn Washington, teacher of the year in Massachusetts, came to Cohasset at the 20th annual breakfast honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington is a fourth grade teacher at Maria Hastings Elementary School in Lexington, Mass. His was one of the best talks I’ve heard in a long time. He spoke about how Martin … Continue reading “Teacher of the year”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-11219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-deshawn-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11221,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions\/11221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}