{"id":627,"date":"2022-02-07T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=627"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:23:55","slug":"ems-more-than-academics","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/ems-more-than-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS: More than Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_647\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-647\" class=\"wp-image-647 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thomas-Marsha-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thomas-Marsha-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thomas-Marsha-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thomas-Marsha-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thomas-Marsha.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsha Thomas, Admissions Counselor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prospective parents sometimes ask me, \u201cWhy should we choose\u00a0a Mennonite education for our student?\u201d My answer? An EMS education offers strong academics and so much more!<\/p>\n<p>When they visit, I hope they \u2013 and their student \u2013 can feel that EMS is a place where:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joy for learning is cultivated.\u00a0<\/strong>Teachers know each student and create space for exploration, questions, and risk taking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life skills grow.<\/strong> From kindergarten work stations to senior presentations, students<br \/>\nare coached to communicate, collaborate, develop self awareness and empathy, and learn conflict resolution skills.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We are a community.<\/strong>\u00a0Relationships are as important as academic success, and we strive to be a place where everyone belongs. When we get it wrong, we hear from those who have been harmed, and work to repair relationships.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We are grounded in faith.<\/strong>\u00a0Jesus is our guide as we learn and grow together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective parents sometimes ask me, \u201cWhy should we choose\u00a0a Mennonite education for our student?\u201d My answer? An EMS education offers strong academics and so much more! When they visit, I hope they \u2013 and their student \u2013 can feel that EMS is a place where: Joy for learning is cultivated.\u00a0Teachers know each student and create&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[31],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-winter-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/627\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}