{"id":598,"date":"2024-01-12T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/?p=598"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:12:20","slug":"melissahopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/2024\/01\/12\/melissahopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 9 teacher Melissa Hopkins takes a hands-on and cross-curricular approach to citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neeta Kumar-Britten, a passionate advocate for citizenship education, has been teaching about democracy in Cape Breton for 30 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Grade 4 teacher (and part-time administrator) at Ferris View Elementary in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Kumar-Britten has taught at every grade level. And for the past two years she has been sharing her social studies dedication with pre-service teachers at Cape Breton University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, she\u2019s been teaching civic education long enough that she has had some of the same students twice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year her class of B.Ed teachers included two people she had taught before \u2014 one first in Grade 3, the other Grade 12. \u201cThey both piped up and said, we remember doing Student Vote with you in high school and elementary,\u201d Kumar-Britten recalls, highlighting the lasting power of that education. \u201cAnd definitely, they had more of an understanding than the others.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neeta Kumar-Britten, a passionate advocate for citizenship education, has been teaching about democracy in Cape Breton for 30 years.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civix.ca\/anniversary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}