{"id":17399,"date":"2020-05-19T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=17399"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:03:04","slug":"an-opportunity-for-alumni-to-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/an-opportunity-for-alumni-to-give-back\/","title":{"rendered":"An Opportunity For Alumni To Give Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17400 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/readwpstory.jpg\" alt=\"student reading a book in her lap\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Literacy Minnesota\u2019s modified Summer Reads program is a great opportunity to help. This year&#8217;s Summer Reads VISTAs will support schools and community organizations with a broadened range of initiatives, which may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with learners in a wider age range (K-12 instead of K-4)<\/li>\n<li>Participating in distance learning (teaching, tutoring and connecting families with digital resources)<\/li>\n<li>Being flexible and nimble as our host sites adapt to transforming circumstances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Summer Reads VISTAs serve full-time for 8 weeks between June and August. All VISTAs receive a living allowance and a post-service education award or cash stipend. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/literacymn.org\/summerreads\">literacymn.org\/summerreads<\/a>. Ready to interview? <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/literacymn\/summer-reads-interview\">Schedule a virtual one here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Randy Comfort and Lisa Pederson for sharing this wonderful opportunity for alumni to help others during COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literacy Minnesota\u2019s modified Summer Reads program is a great opportunity to help. This year&#8217;s Summer Reads VISTAs will support schools and community organizations with a broadened range of initiatives, which may include: Working with learners in a wider age range (K-12 instead of K-4) Participating in distance learning (teaching, tutoring and connecting families with digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,28,24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-alumni","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17402,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions\/17402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}