{"id":6725,"date":"2016-02-19T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2020-06-24T00:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:24:53","slug":"teacher-of-the-year-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/teacher-of-the-year-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies are Teacher of the Year candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Lillie-News-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Lillie-News-logo-300x41.jpg\" alt=\"Lillie News - logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Lillie-News-logo-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Lillie-News-logo.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Lillie News recently reported that <span class=\"fn\"><span class=\"full-name\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>Koua Yang &#8217;99<\/strong>, a human geography and Asian American studies teacher at Harding Senior High School in St. Paul, is one of 114 candidates for Education Minnesota&#8217;s 2016 Teacher of the Year Award. The award is one of the most prestigious given to educators in Minnesota and will be awarded May 15.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very, very much humbled by the candidacy,&#8221; said Yang. &#8220;There are so many great teachers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/114-minnesota-teacher-of-the-year-candidates-named\/367566631\/\">full list of nominees<\/a> was published by the Star Tribune. Fellow Auggies <strong>Julie Swanson &#8217;85<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Aaron Olson &#8217;11<\/strong>\u00a0also have been nominated for the award.<\/p>\n<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\">Read Two East Side teachers are candidates for Teacher of the Year on the Lillie News site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lillie News recently reported that Koua Yang &#8217;99, a human geography and Asian American studies teacher at Harding Senior High School in St. Paul, is one of 114 candidates for Education Minnesota&#8217;s 2016 Teacher of the Year Award. The award is one of the most prestigious given to educators in Minnesota and will be awarded &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3228],"tags":[3797,128,3799,3795,3796,3798],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-kudos","tag-aaron-olson","tag-alumni-2","tag-education-minnesota","tag-julie-swanson","tag-koua-yang","tag-minnesota-teacher-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9996,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}