{"id":2720,"date":"2018-07-11T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2019-08-20T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:32:26","slug":"developing-student-voice-through-great-content-and-strong-instructional-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/2018\/07\/11\/developing-student-voice-through-great-content-and-strong-instructional-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"URI alum, now teaching in Colorado, writes about amplifying student voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Taglienti, &#8217;16, a 4th grade teacher at Fort Logan Northgate 3-8 School in Denver, Colorado, shares his experiences teaching in the diverse and underprivileged district of Sheridan, the town with the lowest annual income in Colorado. &#8220;With poverty so prevalent and entrenching in the area, many students and families struggle to satisfy the most basic needs on a daily basis&#8230; Three-quarters of my students speak English as a second language &#8211; some do not speak English at all, The average reading level peaks somewhere two grade levels below expectancy, with many students still decoding at a Kindergarten level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taglienti, a second year teacher, is a 2015 Noyce Teacher Scholar. The National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program recruits and prepares STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors and professionals for teaching careers in K-12 education. Scholars who enter the teaching field in high-need school districts throughout the U.S. receive support through their induction years.<\/p>\n<p>He added that despite challenges, his students come to school everyday excited to learn and grow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascd.org\/ascd-express\/vol13\/1313-taglienti.aspx\">His article, &#8220;<i>Developing Student Voice Through Great Content and Strong Instructional Practices&#8221;\u00a0<\/i>in the March 8, 2018 issue of\u00a0<b>ASCD Express,\u00a0<\/b>tells how he is amplifying student voices.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Taglienti, &#8217;16, a 4th grade teacher at Fort Logan Northgate 3-8 School in Denver, Colorado, shares his experiences teaching in the diverse and underprivileged district of Sheridan, the town with the lowest annual income in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}