{"id":24,"date":"2017-01-25T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-02-14T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:09:08","slug":"8th-grade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/about-us\/8th-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Laurie Morrell- I have been teaching at Spencer-Van Etten for 19 years. I received my Bachelors of Arts in History at Nazareth College and my Masters of Science in Social Studies Education at Syracuse University.&nbsp; I love the energy that 8<sup>th<\/sup> graders bring into the classroom.&nbsp; Seeing the students succeed at a task they once struggles with is very rewarding.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bret McDermott \u2013 I have been teaching in the Spencer-Van Etten School District for 17 years. I attended SUNY Cortland for both my Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Secondary English Education, and for my Master&#8217;s degree in Literacy Education.&nbsp; The dynamics of middle schoolers strongly contributes to my love of the age group.&nbsp; Each day there is a new challenge, and I get my motivation and energy from the daily interaction with my students.&nbsp; I cannot imagine a more fulfilling job than teaching, and to know that I have made some impact on the lives of a child is the most rewarding feeling.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mrs. Angela Holmes &#8211; Literacy Coach Grades 5-8. &nbsp;This is my tenth year teaching at Spencer Van Etten and I couldn&#8217;t imagine being anywhere else.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been in education for the past eighteen years, in many different roles, in multiple states.&nbsp; I began as a classroom teacher and have taught Kindergarten, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades in Kansas, Virginia, and now New York. The past 5 years I have been working as a literacy specialist at our elementary school and this year have become full time here at the middle school.&nbsp;&nbsp; My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Mansfield University, PA.&nbsp; My master&#8217;s degree is from Old Dominion University, VA and is in Reading Education Grade K-12.&nbsp; I live in Spencer NY with my husband and three children.&nbsp; When I&#8217;m not working with kids, I like to garden, run, read and watch my kids play sports.&nbsp; I love books and have read many butmy most favorite book is, <u>Walk Two Moons<\/u>, by Sharon Creech.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie Morrell- I have been teaching at Spencer-Van Etten for 19 years. I received my Bachelors of Arts in History at Nazareth College and my Masters of Science in Social Studies Education at Syracuse University.&nbsp; I love the energy that 8th graders bring into the classroom.&nbsp; Seeing the students succeed at a task they once &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/about-us\/8th-grade\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/60"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svehumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}