{"id":2694,"date":"2018-11-19T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2018-11-26T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:06:33","slug":"nacacreads-read-an-excerpt-from-breakaway-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/nacacreads-read-an-excerpt-from-breakaway-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"#NACACreads: Read an Excerpt from \u2018Breakaway Learners\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NACACreadsBreakawaysmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2714\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NACACreadsBreakawaysmall-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NACACreadsBreakawaysmall-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NACACreadsBreakawaysmall-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>The students we serve are changing.<\/p>\n<p>Are you?<\/p>\n<p>Karen Gross, who spent eight years as president of Southern Vermont College, poses that question in <em>Breakaway Learners<\/em> \u2014 a book we&#8217;ll discuss during our next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/NACACreads\/\">#NACACreads<\/a> chat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of today\u2019s students are the first in their families to attend college, let alone graduate; many are immigrants; many are low income,&#8221; writes Gross, who will join us for an hour-long Twitter discussion on Dec. 12. &#8220;Many have experienced trauma or toxic stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Her book calls on educators to reshape their institutions and rethink the ways we help young people prepare for life beyond high school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/blog\/gross-excerpt-nacac\/\">Read an excerpt from <em>Breakaway Learners<\/em><\/a> and make plans to join us next month for this important conversation. The Twitter chat will kick off promptly at 9 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students we serve are changing. Are you? Karen Gross, who spent eight years as president of Southern Vermont College, poses that question in Breakaway Learners \u2014 a book we&#8217;ll discuss during our next #NACACreads chat. &#8220;Many of today\u2019s students are the first in their families to attend college, let alone graduate; many are immigrants; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/nacacreads-read-an-excerpt-from-breakaway-learners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#NACACreads: Read an Excerpt from \u2018Breakaway Learners\u2019<\/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":[17,6],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-nacac-news","tag-nacacreads"],"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-Hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","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=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}