{"id":3936,"date":"2022-01-20T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/teaching-and-learning\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:18:01","slug":"whitney-brandon-second-grade-teacher-at-westar-elementary-school-and-the-nau-arizona-teachers-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/whitney-brandon-second-grade-teacher-at-westar-elementary-school-and-the-nau-arizona-teachers-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Brandon, second grade teacher at Westar Elementary School and the NAU Arizona Teacher&#8217;s Academy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The need for strong teachers has never been greater, but the pathway to becoming a teacher doesn&#8217;t have to be the same for everyone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Whitney Brandon teaches second grade at Westar Elementary School, but she has taken a different path than some of her peers. \u201cSo when I started the year (2019) I was a stay-at-home mom, the year my daughter started kindergarten. I got my sub certificate looking for something to do. I liked the flexibility of being able to do it when I could,\u201d said Brandon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberty25.org\/news-resources\/district-news\/~board\/district-news\/post\/each-pathway-to-teaching-is-unique\"> here<\/a> from Liberty Elem School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The need for strong teachers has never been greater, but the pathway to becoming a teacher doesn&#8217;t have to be the same for everyone. Whitney Brandon teaches second grade at Westar Elementary School, but she has taken a different path than some of her peers. \u201cSo when I started the year (2019) I was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-learning-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}