{"id":35970,"date":"2025-01-27T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35970"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:54:40","slug":"gregory-winkler-write-op-ed-about-innovative-literacy-program-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/gregory-winkler-write-op-ed-about-innovative-literacy-program-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory, Winkler write op-ed about innovative literacy program, Spark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute&#8217;s Kelly Gregory and Claudia Winkler have written an opinion piece for the <a href=\"https:\/\/scdailygazette.com\/author\/claudia-winkler\/\">South Carolina Daily Gazette<\/a>. In it, Gregory, director for public education projects and partnerships, and Winkler, director of marketing, communications and strategic alignment at the Furman University institute, wrote about the success of a literacy program and collaboration between the SC Governor&#8217;s School for the Arts and Humanities and the South Carolina Arts Commission known as Spark! Inspiring Tomorrow\u2019s Readers Through Drama.<\/p>\n<p>The program, winner of the 2024 Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award, has witnessed remarkable gains in reading scores and increased engagement in reading and writing among Spark students compared to their non-Spark peers. Gregory and Winkler called upon SC lawmakers to invest in programs like Spark that &#8220;ignite joy in young learners and deliver better engagement and outcomes for students across the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Gregory and Claudia Winkler of The Riley Institute at Furman University write about the impact of literacy programs that spark joy and engagement in reading and writing in South Carolina. Learn more in South Carolina Daily Gazette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":35973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29,2557],"tags":[3238,3237,3240,3239,269],"class_list":["post-35970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute","category-south-carolina-daily-gazette","tag-literacy-in-south-carolina","tag-non-traditional-approach-to-literacy","tag-sc-governors-school-for-the-arts-and-humanities","tag-sc-reading-report-card","tag-the-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35975,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35970\/revisions\/35975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}