{"id":2,"date":"2025-08-29T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:11:04","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started teaching English to immigrant adults in the DC area in 2006 and was overwhelmed by the difficulty of the task. Creating lesson plans that engaged the learners with real-world examples that simultaneously provided scaffolding while respecting their mature intellects was daunting. I have since completed a certificate from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/professional-certificates\/arizona-state-university-tesol\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/professional-certificates\/arizona-state-university-tesol\">Arizona State University<\/a> and am offering this site as a forum and resource to both aspiring and practicing educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aboutme.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started teaching English to immigrant adults in the DC area in 2006 and was overwhelmed by the difficulty of the task. Creating lesson plans that engaged the learners with real-world examples that simultaneously provided scaffolding while respecting their mature intellects was daunting. I have since completed a certificate from Arizona State University and am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macken27.soisweb.uwm.edu\/240\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}