{"id":52,"date":"2016-08-31T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2016-09-04T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:49:21","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Michelle Bittar and I am the new teacher taking over for Danielle Kortsjens.\u00a0 While this is my first year as a classroom teacher,\u00a0I have been substitute teaching for the past five years with several long-term Special Education positions throughout the years.\u00a0 In fact, I completed my Special Education student teaching at\u00a0Stout Middle\u00a0School\u00a0in Ms. Poloni&#8217;s classroom in the Winter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I attended Wayne State University and received my Bachelor&#8217;s of Art degree in Design and Merchandising.\u00a0 Immediately after graduating, I attended Eastern Michigan University for my post-baccalaureate\u00a0teaching certificate in Special Education Cognitive Impairment grades\u00a0K-12\u00a0and Secondary English grades 6-12.\u00a0 I plan on continuing to pursue my Masters Degree in Special Education from Eastern Michigan University in the fall of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I am beyond excited to see familiar faces and meet the new incoming students this year.\u00a0 This year will be full of opportunities for the students to grow and achieve all they can through daily challenges and encouragements.\u00a0 I believe the sky is their limit and I am here to help them reach their fullest potential.\u00a0 Please feel free to contact me through my email bittarm@dearbornschools.org or call me at 313.827.4600 ext.\u00a0\u00a0 I look forward for the year to come and to work together with you to create\u00a0positive growth throughout the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Michelle Bittar and I am the new teacher taking over for Danielle Kortsjens.\u00a0 While this is my first year as a classroom teacher,\u00a0I have been substitute teaching for the past five years with several long-term Special Education positions throughout the years.\u00a0 In fact, I completed my Special Education student teaching at\u00a0Stout Middle\u00a0School\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1786,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bittar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}