{"id":104,"date":"2020-05-12T02:55:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T02:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/?p=104"},"modified":"2020-05-13T21:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:15:13","slug":"sheppard-school-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/2020\/05\/12\/sheppard-school-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in the Sheppard School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\" wp-image-105\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.41.19-PM-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.41.19-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.41.19-PM-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.41.19-PM-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.41.19-PM-1536x1023.png 1536w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.41.19-PM.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A view of West Kensington from inside Sheppard, near the epicenter of Philadelphia\u2019s opioid epidemic.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-schools-sheppard-elementary-teacher-turnover-20190429.html\">(Heather Khalifa\/Staff Photographer)\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Sheppard School&#8217;s performance &#8220;&#8230; over the last several years, a new principal and her team have brought new energy to the school. Now, the school is a place where teachers stay; turnover is improving. In 2017-18, three-quarters of the staff were the same as the year before. For 2018-19, that climbed to 85 percent \u2014 up from just 50 percent in 2012.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Calefati, Graham, Purcell)<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/philly\/education\/20161114_Running_for_resources_at_a_city_school.html\">here<\/a> to learn more about changes to the Sheppard School.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Sheppard School&#8217;s performance &#8220;&#8230; over the last several years, a new principal and her team have brought new energy to the school. Now, the school is a place where teachers stay; turnover is improving. In 2017-18, three-quarters of the staff were the same as the year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}