{"id":586,"date":"2012-05-23T20:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T00:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/23\/furman-graduate-named-teacher-of-year\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:36:10","slug":"furman-graduate-named-teacher-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-graduate-named-teacher-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman graduate named Teacher of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eric-tornfelt1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2970 lazyload\" title=\"eric-tornfelt\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eric-tornfelt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"245\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 165px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 165\/245;\" \/><\/a>Eric Tornfelt, a 2003 Furman graduate who teaches civics and economics at Mallard Creek High in North Carolina, has been named Teacher of the Year for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Tornfelt received his B.A. degree in political science from Furman, and earned a master\u2019s degree in teaching from UNC Charlotte.\u00a0 He came to Mallard Creek when the school opened in 2007. A year later, he attended the Supreme Court Summer Institute and in 2011 was a speaker at the CMS 2011 Leadership Conference. He also has been involved in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\u2019s grant programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2012\/05\/21\/3256560\/tornfelt-named-top-cms-teacher.html\">Read the article in the Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Tornfelt, a 2003 Furman graduate who teaches civics and economics at Mallard Creek High in North Carolina, has been named Teacher of the Year for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.\u00a0Tornfelt received his B.A. degree in political science from Furman, and earned a master\u2019s degree in teaching from UNC Charlotte.\u00a0 He came to Mallard Creek when the school opened in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,28,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}