{"id":601,"date":"2019-07-09T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/2019\/07\/09\/mississippi-launches-teachms-teacher-recruitment-campaign_20190709\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:51:47","slug":"mississippi-launches-teachms-teacher-recruitment-campaign_20190709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2019\/07\/09\/mississippi-launches-teachms-teacher-recruitment-campaign_20190709\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Launches TeachMS Teacher Recruitment Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: July 9, 2019<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013Mississippi has launched a teacher recruitment campaign, TeachMS, to encourage high school and college students and professionals seeking a new career opportunity to consider teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u2019s theme, \u201cTeachMS \u2013 Empower and Inspire Generations of Change,\u201d is designed to appeal to an array of potential educators who want to impact the more than 470,000 students in Mississippi. As part of the campaign\u2019s development, high school and college students provided insight into what\u2019s important to them if they are to consider a career in education. Also, current teachers from across the state shared stories about what motivates them to commit to the profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Mississippi, like every state in the nation, is facing a teacher shortage. We have been asked by current educators and school and district leaders to assist in teacher recruitment, and this initiative is one way to do that,\u201d said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education. \u201cThe majority of students in our state attend public school, and they depend on us to prepare them for college, the workforce, military and life. Our students deserve caring, effective teachers in their classrooms, and recent gains in student achievement prove that over time, a dedicated professional can transform one student, one classroom and one school at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the campaign, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/teachms.org\/\">teachms.org<\/a> and follow TeachMS on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Teachers are encouraged to send their inspiring stories to <a href=\"mailto:teachms@mdek12.org\">teachms@mdek12.org<\/a>, and they may be shared as part of the campaign. Watch the campaign\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6dHYYHX_e_k\">launch video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 13px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: July 9, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. \u2013Mississippi has launched a teacher recruitment campaign, TeachMS, to encourage high school and college students and professionals seeking a new career opportunity to consider teaching. The campaign\u2019s theme, \u201cTeachMS \u2013 Empower and Inspire Generations of Change,\u201d is designed to appeal to an array of potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}