{"id":1267,"date":"2016-01-06T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:13:23","slug":"alumnus-wins-new-jersey-educator-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2016\/01\/06\/alumnus-wins-new-jersey-educator-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna wins New Jersey Educator of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to<strong> Patricia (Tisdale) Clark<\/strong>, OTR\/L, <strong>\u201988<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ms. Clark was recently named as a Governor&#8217;s Educator of the Year for the Somerville School District in New Jersey, where she provides occupational therapy services to children in K \u2013 5<sup>th<\/sup> grade at the Van Derveer Elementary School.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1273\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/patti-tisdale-clark\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1273\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2016\/01\/Patti-Tisdale-Clark-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia Clark with other award winners\" width=\"412\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia (Tisdale) Clark, fourth from left, with other award winners and school principals from Van Derveer Elementary School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The award recognizes excellence in teaching and in professional support services such as occupational therapy.\u00a0 Requirements for this award include:\u00a0 inspiring children of all abilities to learn, excellence in educational practices, and leadership in educational activities.\u00a0 Ms. Clark was nominated by her colleagues or children\u2019s parents for her work with students in grades 3-5.\u00a0 In addition to providing special education services in classrooms, Ms. Clark leads a social skills group after school and provides various district-wide in-services for teachers in order to support successful learning.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Clark commented that OT is highly respected in her local school district in New Jersey and that she felt honored to be nominated.\u00a0 She also credited Etown\u2019s OT program for giving her the passion to go above and beyond her job responsibilities and promote\/advocate for occupational therapy.\u00a0 Way to go, Patti!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Patricia (Tisdale) Clark, OTR\/L, \u201988.\u00a0 Ms. Clark was recently named as a Governor&#8217;s Educator of the Year for the Somerville School District in New Jersey, where she provides occupational therapy services to children in K \u2013 5th grade &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2016\/01\/06\/alumnus-wins-new-jersey-educator-of-the-year-award\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumna wins New Jersey Educator of the Year Award<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-news-and-accomplishments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}