{"id":1621,"date":"2017-11-14T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2017-11-14T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:36:03","slug":"patrick-oconnor-selected-for-school-ambassador-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/14\/patrick-oconnor-selected-for-school-ambassador-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick O\u2019Connor Selected for School Ambassador Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Patrick-OConnor-2-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-806 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Patrick-OConnor-2-003-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Patrick-OConnor-2-003-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Patrick-OConnor-2-003.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick O&#8217;Connor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A NACAC past president is one of six educators selected for the US Department of Education\u2019s School Ambassador Fellowship program.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick O\u2019Connor, associate dean of college counseling at Cranbrook Schools (MI), will lend his expertise to conversations about national education policy as part of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Other fellows selected for the 2017-18 cohort include educators from Colorado, Wyoming, California, and Washington, DC. This year marks the first time in the program\u2019s 10-year history that a school counselor has been selected for the fellowship.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US Department of Education designed the School Ambassador Fellowship program to enable outstanding teachers, principals, and other school leaders, like school counselors, to bring their school and classroom expertise to the department and to expand their knowledge of the national dialogue about education,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/schoolfellowship\/index.html\">program website<\/a>. \u201cIn turn, School Ambassador Fellows facilitate the learning and input of other educators and community members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/education-secretary-devos-announces-2017-18-school-ambassador-fellows\">Learn more about the fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NACAC past president is one of six educators selected for the US Department of Education\u2019s School Ambassador Fellowship program. Patrick O\u2019Connor, associate dean of college counseling at Cranbrook Schools (MI), will lend his expertise to conversations about national education policy as part of the program. Other fellows selected for the 2017-18 cohort include educators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/14\/patrick-oconnor-selected-for-school-ambassador-fellowship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patrick O\u2019Connor Selected for School Ambassador Fellowship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nacac-news","tag-school-ambassador-fellowship"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-q9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}