{"id":149,"date":"2015-03-04T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education\/?p=149"},"modified":"2024-02-12T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:30:51","slug":"two-spc-alumni-were-pinellas-teacher-of-the-year-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/two-spc-alumni-were-pinellas-teacher-of-the-year-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Two SPC alumni were Pinellas Teacher of the Year finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Lopez, a fifth grade teacher at Melrose Elementary was recently named Pinellas County&#8217;s 2015 Outstanding Educator of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Two St. Petersburg College alumni were named in the list of 10 finalists for the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Aligood<\/strong>, a 2008 SPC College of Education graduate, went on to get a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in technology from Grand Canyon University. He currently teaches fifth grade at Plumb Elementary in Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Aligood - Outstanding Educator Finalist\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120586464?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charissa Chandler<\/strong>, a 2011 SPC College of Education graduate, teaches second grade at Sandy Lake Elementary in Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charissa Chandler - Outstanding Educator Finalist\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120581100?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPC&#8217;s College of Education<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Teacher of the Year\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/hedly-news--2602-plz\/2218981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Tampa Bay Times article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Lopez, a fifth grade teacher at Melrose Elementary was recently named Pinellas County&#8217;s 2015 Outstanding Educator of the Year. Two St. Petersburg College alumni were named in the list of 10 finalists for the prestigious award. William Aligood, a 2008 SPC College of Education graduate, went on to get a Masters of Education in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/two-spc-alumni-were-pinellas-teacher-of-the-year-finalists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two SPC alumni were Pinellas Teacher of the Year finalists<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-education","category-elementary-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}