{"id":2767,"date":"2018-12-11T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2018-12-11T06:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:52:40","slug":"join-us-tomorrow-night-for-nacacreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/join-us-tomorrow-night-for-nacacreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us Tomorrow Night for #NACACreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/nacacreadtwitpicBL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2769\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/nacacreadtwitpicBL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/nacacreadtwitpicBL.jpg 440w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/nacacreadtwitpicBL-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>What can we do to better serve at-risk students in our high schools and on our college campuses?<\/p>\n<p>Share your insights tomorrow night during a special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/NACACreads\/\">#NACACreads<\/a> chat with Karen Gross, author of <em>Breakaway Learners<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Packed with strategies to aid counselors in higher ed, as well as those working in K-12 schools and community-based organizations, the book calls on college counselors and others to rethink the ways they help students prepare for life beyond high school.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of today\u2019s students are the first in their families to attend college, let alone graduate; many are immigrants; many are low income. Many have experienced trauma or toxic stress&#8230;\u201d writes Gross, who served as president of Southern Vermont College for eight years. &#8220;&#8230;The problem, simply stated, is that many educators want to educate (whether consciously or not) their clones, rather than assessing how to educate the students before them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/blog\/gross-excerpt-nacac\/\">Read an excerpt from the book<\/a> and join us on Twitter at 9 p.m. ET for a compelling conversation about strategies that support postsecondary success for all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/NACACreads\/\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/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>What can we do to better serve at-risk students in our high schools and on our college campuses? Share your insights tomorrow night during a special #NACACreads chat with Karen Gross, author of Breakaway Learners. Packed with strategies to aid counselors in higher ed, as well as those working in K-12 schools and community-based organizations, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/join-us-tomorrow-night-for-nacacreads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Join Us Tomorrow Night for #NACACreads<\/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":[64],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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-ID","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}