{"id":5668,"date":"2015-11-19T23:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2015-11-19T23:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:44:54","slug":"educator-preparation-institute-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/educator-preparation-institute-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Educator Preparation Institute Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/EPIcenter_RibbonCutting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5655 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/EPIcenter_RibbonCutting-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"EPIcenter_RibbonCutting\" width=\"411\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/EPIcenter_RibbonCutting-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/EPIcenter_RibbonCutting-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/EPIcenter_RibbonCutting-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday November 17, the Early Childhood Education\/Education (ECE\/EDU) Program, hosted the Grand Opening of the Educator Preparation Institute (EPIcenter).\u00a0 The EPIcenter along with the Child Development Laboratory Center is designed to create a teacher preparation culture at Skyline College by providing aspiring educators (ECE, Elementary Education, Special Education) a place to collaborate, study, check out resources, and meet with faculty. The EPIcenter also provides computers and a printer for ECE\/EDU students to use for their classes.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the President\u2019s Innovation Fund, Heising Simon\u2019s Fellowship, and a generous donation by a former Skyline College ECE\/EDU student, the EPIcenter was able to purchase materials and equipment, hire student assistants, and plans to offer tutoring and instructional support for target courses.<\/p>\n<p>This event was well attended by Skyline College ECE\/EDU students and faculty, Skyline College administrators (VPI Sarah Perkins, Dean Aaron Mcveen) and staff, District Board Members Karen Schwarz, Thomas Mohr, and newly elected Maurice Goodman.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the EPIcenter please visit the <a href=\"skylinecollege.edu\/epicenter\">EPIcenter website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Article by Kristina Brower and Sarita Santos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday November 17, the Early Childhood Education\/Education (ECE\/EDU) Program, hosted the Grand Opening of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}