{"id":472,"date":"2015-03-02T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/?p=472"},"modified":"2015-03-02T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:53:21","slug":"welcome-to-the-graphics-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/2015\/03\/02\/welcome-to-the-graphics-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Graphics Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, February 26, at the 75th Annual Founders Day Celebration, the Dearborn PTA Council presented ME with a Distinguished Service Award!! It was an extraordinary honor to be individually recognized by such a powerful organization, especially when there are so many deserving individuals within the Dearborn Public Schools. President Marty Townsend gave a heartfelt introduction and called me up to the podium to present the award. It was pleasantly overwhelming! Directly afterward, the Educator of the Year Award was presented to a very deserving Youssef Mosallam, Principal of Fordson High School. Youssef gave a wonderful impromptu speech about how he was surrounded with a talented, hard-working staff that makes his job easier.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, I could\u2019ve done something other than given big smiles, hugs, and a thank you &#8211; but a table mate reassured me that all was fine and that a speech wasn\u2019t necessary. So, I would like to make the receipt of this award an opportunity to say that I have been grateful for every day of my 26+ years spent working in the Graphics Lab. It is a beautiful, sunlit, colorful \u201cmaker space\u201d where district staff, students, and parents love to come create and accomplish wonderful projects! The environment that I strive to maintain, is one of welcome &amp; learning &#8211; you never need to come to the Graphics Lab needing to know exactly how to do a project, but you should always leave having learned something new and be excited to return again. <strong>If you have never been to the Graphics Lab (or it&#8217;s been awhile), please stop in for an informal tour or just to say hello &#8211; I guarantee that you\u2019ll want to come back soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again, many thanks to the Dearborn PTA Council,<br \/>\nCarol Theisen<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-258\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/08\/LEGO-head-smile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO head smile\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, February 26, at the 75th Annual Founders Day Celebration, the Dearborn PTA Council presented ME with a Distinguished Service Award!! It was an extraordinary honor to be individually recognized by such a powerful organization, especially when there are so many deserving individuals within the Dearborn Public Schools. President Marty Townsend gave a heartfelt &#8230; <a title=\"Welcome to the Graphics Lab!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/2015\/03\/02\/welcome-to-the-graphics-lab\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Welcome to the Graphics Lab!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}