{"id":1940,"date":"2023-04-07T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:23:21","slug":"what-sets-joi-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/what-sets-joi-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sets the Joan Oates Institute Apart From Other Educator PD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from our past educator participants on how our training was unlike any other:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What sets the Joan Oates Institute apart?\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mooZ0em21q0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;This was hands-on, real people, real experiences, real applications for the types of communication or the types of problem-solving or the types of thinking that we&#8217;re trying to foster and facilitate, in a world that&#8217;s outside of the classroom, in a world our students are a part of<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Olivia Exum, HS Spanish Teacher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/spcs.richmond.edu\/joi\">Joan Oates Institute<\/a> is an annual summer training at the University of Richmond, offered by our <a href=\"https:\/\/spcs.richmond.edu\/arts\">Institute for Integrated Learning<\/a>. It is truly unique in that it shows educators how to incorporate the culture, interests, and community of students into teaching and learning. This results in deeper learning, real-world curricular connections, and improved academic and social-emotional outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>By using a series of experiential, arts- and tech-focused workshops, teachers are &#8220;<strong>doing the work that your students are going to do<\/strong>&#8221; as Assistant Principal Dr. Chantea Wright explains. The weeklong course is practically applicable and engaging, as opposed to professional development that consists of a &#8220;sit-and-get&#8221; lecture format.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Everyone has a voice and has their own story that they bring to the table.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Kate O&#8217;Neil, Special Education educator<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from our past educator participants on how our training was unlike any other: &#8220;This was hands-on, real people, real experiences, real applications for the types of communication or the types of problem-solving or the types of thinking that we&#8217;re trying to foster and facilitate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5639,"featured_media":1950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222305,13],"tags":[222841],"class_list":{"0":"post-1940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-partners-in-the-arts-pia","8":"category-resources","9":"tag-joan-oates-institute","11":"post-with-thumbnail","12":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/files\/2023\/04\/JOI1_feature.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/pia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}