{"id":9461,"date":"2024-05-01T16:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:21:44","slug":"j-l-simpson-middle-school-virtual-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/j-l-simpson-middle-school-virtual-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"J. L. Simpson Middle School &#8212; virtual sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with 300 students in 7th grade at J.L. Simpson in Leesburg Virginia over the course of 6 virtual sessions. Jeannine, their media specialist extraordinaire cobbled together grants from the Nora Roberts Foundation and <a href=\"https:\/\/education.holodomor.ca\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/education.holodomor.ca\/\">HREC ED<\/a> to make this happen and also to purchase copies of Winterkill for the students. The planning had been in the works since April of 2023! Students asked great questions, and look at the notes they took!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-2-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-3.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-3-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-3-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 85vw, 530px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-1.jpg 611w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Copy-of-Marsha-Skrypuch-Visit-1-150x111.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with 300 students in 7th grade at J.L. Simpson in Leesburg Virginia over the course of 6 virtual sessions. Jeannine, their media specialist extraordinaire cobbled together grants from the Nora Roberts Foundation and HREC ED to make this happen and also to purchase copies of Winterkill for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/j-l-simpson-middle-school-virtual-sessions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;J. L. Simpson Middle School &#8212; virtual sessions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[233,636,861,353,7,475,609],"class_list":["post-9461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-hrec-ed","tag-jl-simpson-middle-school","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-virtual-visits","tag-winterkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}