{"id":8020,"date":"2018-02-09T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2018-02-09T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:31:51","slug":"light-up-literacy-campaign-ongoing-in-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8020","title":{"rendered":"Light Up Literacy Campaign Ongoing in District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180201-small-Light-Up-Literacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7989\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180201-small-Light-Up-Literacy.jpg\" alt=\"180201-small-Light-Up-Literacy\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180201-small-Light-Up-Literacy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180201-small-Light-Up-Literacy-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180201-small-Light-Up-Literacy-405x284.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Los Fresnos CISD has taken on the\u00a0Light Up Literacy challenge which began Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The #LightUpLiteracy challenge is Alejandra Guzman\u2019s innovative project as she was chosen as one of 36 global educators to be a part of the third cohort of TED-Ed Innovative Educators.<\/p>\n<p>Her project was featured on the\u00a0<a title=\"TED-Ed blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.ted.com\/2017\/10\/12\/spark-a-love-of-reading-with-the-lightupliteracy-challenge\/\">TED-Ed blog<\/a>\u00a0and in an issue of\u00a0<a title=\"TechEdge Magazine\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JXBAL3MaUMCoq3NVYA_gkaTIbt1ziLd0\/view\">TechEdge Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Daily prizes are awarded to teachers at the campus level that provide evidence through either email or social media (using #lightupliteracy) that they are actively participating in the challenge. Teachers can send a short description, a picture, or a video that showcases the literacy strategy being used in the classroom to promote more reading and writing.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal of this project is to instill a love for reading and writing in all students in every grade level.<\/p>\n<p>The project started as a pilot 12 months ago at two campuses \u2013 Los Fresnos United and Liberty Memorial Middle School. Nine campuses participated in the challenge last October.\u00a0As of last week, all the teachers in all Los Fresnos CISD campuses have been trained and are up to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The calendar has also been shared with other local school districts including Point Isabel, McAllen, San Benito, and Edcouch-Elsa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD Los Fresnos CISD has taken on the\u00a0Light Up Literacy challenge which began Monday. The #LightUpLiteracy challenge is Alejandra Guzman\u2019s innovative project as she was chosen as one of 36 global educators to be a part of the third cohort of TED-Ed Innovative Educators. Her project was featured on the\u00a0TED-Ed blog\u00a0and in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}