{"id":64,"date":"2014-11-02T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-11-18T03:22:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T03:22:58","slug":"episode-5-mark-ballinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 5: MARK BALLINGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Adequate Yearly Progress, episode 5. In my fifth episode, hear from a friend of mine, Mark Ballinger, who used to work with me\u00a0at Eckstein Middle School and now works at the nearby Jane Addams Middle School as a language arts, social studies, and tech teacher. He is an incredibly smart person with a dry sense of humor who gives me great book suggestions. In this conversation, we talk about using humor in the classroom, the plight of media not understanding what teachers do, and why he chose teaching as a second career.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-64-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adequate-Yearly-Progress-Episode-5-Mark-Ballinger.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adequate-Yearly-Progress-Episode-5-Mark-Ballinger.mp3\">http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adequate-Yearly-Progress-Episode-5-Mark-Ballinger.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Download: <a title=\"Adequate Yearly Progress Episode 5 Mark Ballinger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adequate-Yearly-Progress-Episode-5-Mark-Ballinger.mp3\">Adequate Yearly Progress Episode 5 Mark Ballinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or find the podcast on iTunes, Microsoft Zune, and (hopefully soon\u2026) the Microsoft Podcast app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Adequate Yearly Progress, episode 5. In my fifth episode, hear from a friend of mine, Mark Ballinger, who used to work with me\u00a0at Eckstein Middle School and now works at the nearby Jane Addams Middle School as a language arts, social studies, and tech teacher. He is an incredibly smart person with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/?p=64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPISODE 5: MARK BALLINGER<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adequate-Yearly-Progress-Episode-5-Mark-Ballinger.mp3\r\n25033587\r\naudio\/mpeg\r\n","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-12","category-middle-school","category-podcast","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adequateyearlyprogress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}