{"id":1,"date":"2020-09-14T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/defaulttemplate1\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-09-14T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:07:59","slug":"welcome-to-iblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/2020\/09\/14\/welcome-to-iblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Bowen&#8217;s Letter of Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families,<\/p>\n<p>I am so excited to have joined the school families at Woodworth Middle School and Oakman Elementary School.\u00a0 I have a passion for supporting children and their families.\u00a0 \u00a0I began my career as a secondary teacher, and have taught in Indiana, Michigan, and South Africa.\u00a0 I transitioned to school social work after obtaining my master&#8217;s of social work degree from the University of Michigan, and spent the last few years working at an elementary school in a nearby district.\u00a0 I am so happy to have found a new home in Dearborn, and can&#8217;t wait to get to know the students and families in this wonderful community.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a school social worker, I enjoy listening to podcasts and audiobooks, traveling to places both near and far, cooking, and spending time with friends and families.\u00a0 I spend my summers teaching a summer school class and making the most of the beautiful weather by gardening and going to the beach!<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to an awesome (if unusual!) school year!<\/p>\n<p>-Ms. Bowen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families, I am so excited to have joined the school families at Woodworth Middle School and Oakman Elementary School.\u00a0 I have a passion for supporting children and their families.\u00a0 \u00a0I began my career as a secondary teacher, and have taught in Indiana, Michigan, and South Africa.\u00a0 I transitioned to school social work after obtaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bowenm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}