{"id":8540,"date":"2019-12-06T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/16\/jessica-patterson-07-named-sc-elementary-principal-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:11","slug":"jessica-patterson-07-named-sc-elementary-principal-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/jessica-patterson-07-named-sc-elementary-principal-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Patterson &#8217;07 named SC Elementary Principal of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Patterson, a 2007 Furman University graduate (M.Ed) and principal at Chastain Road Elementary School, has been named South Carolina&#8217;s Elementary Principal of the Year by the South Carolina Association of School Administrators. Her six years&#8217; service as principal at the Pickens County school includes her leadership in bringing the school from a &#8220;Below Average&#8221; rating on its state report card in 2018 to an &#8220;Excellent&#8221; rating in 2019. She also introduced the Montessori education model to the school. The story was covered in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2019\/12\/04\/sc-principal-year-jessica-patterson-chastain-road-elementary-pickens-county\/2598972001\/\">The Greenville News, <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/chastain-road-elementarys-jessica-patterson-named-2020-sc-elem-principal-of-the-year\/\">WSPA 7News<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/news\/pickens-principal-named-south-carolina-s-elementary-principal-of-the\/article_44589422-16b9-11ea-963e-2f9b686ff134.html\">FOX Carolina<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Patterson, a 2007 Furman University graduate (M.Ed) and principal at Chastain Road Elementary School, has been named South Carolina&#8217;s Elementary Principal of the Year by the South Carolina Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,28,43,74,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-education","category-graduate-studies","category-graduate-studies-in-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","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=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}