{"id":53347,"date":"2023-04-03T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=53347"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:44:32","slug":"erika-gascho-named-middle-school-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2023\/04\/erika-gascho-named-middle-school-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Gascho Named Middle School Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erika Gascho has been named principal of the middle school division of Eastern Mennonite School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cErika brings a strong combination of experience, expertise, creative problem solving finesse, and commitment to restorative practices\u00a0 to this role,\u201d says Maria Archer, current K-8 principal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cErika\u2019s collaborative curricular ideas and strengths with learning support services truly made her our outstanding candidate,\u201d Archer explained.\u00a0 Archer has served as elementary principal since the division was founded in 2005, and took on 6-8 leadership in addition to that role in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Archer\u2019s leadership, EMS middle school developed more of a distinct program to serve the unique needs of students in grades six to eight. Archer will return to a K-5 focus with the new hire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gascho has taught 5th grade at EMS since 2018. Earlier this spring, she was named Teacher of the Month by Q101 Radio, thanks to nominations from happy students and parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to focusing on middle school leadership half time, Gascho will work with EMS\u2019 growing Learning Support Services program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to teaching at EMES, Gascho was a special education teacher for Harrisonburg City Schools. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree and licensure in elementary and special education from Eastern Mennonite University, and is currently enrolled in EMU\u2019s Restorative Justice in Education certificate program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gascho is married to Andrew Gascho, EMS athletic director, and mother to two EMES students.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erika Gascho has been named principal of the middle school division of Eastern Mennonite School. \u201cErika brings a strong combination of experience, expertise, creative problem solving finesse, and commitment to restorative practices\u00a0 to this role,\u201d says Maria Archer, current K-8 principal.\u00a0 \u201cErika\u2019s collaborative curricular ideas and strengths with learning support services truly made her our\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-53347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-middle-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53347"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}