{"id":1127,"date":"2019-05-01T01:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2019-05-14T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:44:27","slug":"jessica-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/2019\/05\/01\/jessica-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_separator]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-6a8fccf0e726a\" data-id=\"6a8fccf0e726a\" data-height=\"35\" data-height-mobile=\"35\" data-height-tab=\"35\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_single_image image=&#8221;1217&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jessica Lander<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>High School Teacher<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lowell Public Schools<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">PASSION:<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jessica teaches in the Lowell public school system but has a passion for writing and sharing stories.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-6a8fccf0e727b\" data-id=\"6a8fccf0e727b\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">IMPACT:<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She brings the stories, struggles, and victories of her mostly immigrant students to life in creative and moving fashion. She shares her stories and experiences in a monthly op-ed column for the Globe. She has given a successful TedX Boston talk. She was the editor of &#8216;Defining Diversity&#8217;, an exploration and explanation of the concepts, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions that have shaped the meaning of diversity and equity in America. She created a cookbook, Tasting History, with her students that shares recipes from their native countries accompanied by stories of their personal journeys. At a time when public education is floundering much of the country Jessica is showing what impassioned advocates can accomplish. She\u2019s both affecting lives as a practicing teacher and policy with her writing and policy work.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"color: #ff6633; font-size: 18px; line-height: 15px; padding-top: 5px\">Lowell Public Schools<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nominees","category-14","description-off"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/05\/jessica.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2019\/05\/jessica.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"The Ad Club","author_link":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/author\/theadclub\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}