{"id":1343,"date":"2014-08-11T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/?page_id=1343"},"modified":"2016-08-07T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T02:11:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2449\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2.png\" alt=\"WITS 2\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2.png 960w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2-659x439.png 659w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2-700x467.png 700w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/files\/2016\/05\/WITS-2-332x221.png 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>WRITING IN THE SCHOOLS<\/strong>\u00a0is a Jefferson Award-winning service-learning program designed to facilitate mentorship opportunities at <strong>Broad Ripple\u00a0Magnet School for the Arts and Humanities<\/strong> and <strong>Shortridge High School<\/strong> through the teaching of reading and creative writing. WITS seeks to reinforce how relationship building, positive reinforcement, and interconnectivity through language are vital strategies for helping to serve the needs of young learners.<\/p>\n<p>The primary on-site mentoring curriculum at Broad Ripple is two-fold: an in-school literacy tutoring program and an after-school creative writing group (called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ripple Effect<\/strong>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The on-site programming at Shortridge is related to the publication of a literary magazine of student work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRITING IN THE SCHOOLS\u00a0is a Jefferson Award-winning service-learning program designed to facilitate mentorship opportunities at Broad Ripple\u00a0Magnet School for the Arts and Humanities and Shortridge High School through the teaching of reading and creative writing. WITS seeks to reinforce how relationship building, positive reinforcement, and interconnectivity through language are vital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"coauthors":[265091],"class_list":["post-1343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1343\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}