{"id":2759,"date":"2008-11-05T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2011-08-22T22:46:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:46:26","slug":"spanish-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2008\/11\/05\/spanish-in-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish in the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2761\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/rs\/files\/2011\/07\/Peter-Megan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2761\" title=\"Peter, Megan\" src=\"\/rs\/files\/2011\/07\/Peter-Megan.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Mahoney, Anderson, and Gibbons\" width=\"340\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Mahoney, Anderson, and Gibbons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bringing their love for teaching Spanish to the community, PhD students in Spanish Megan Gibbons, Mar\u00eda Luisa Mart\u00ednez and Peter Mahoney  have been voluntarily teaching elementary Spanish to members of the  Grandparents Action Program, which is part of the Women&#8217;s Service Club  of Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Starting modestly last spring with two  small groups, these BU teaching fellows have seen their classes grow to  over fifty students, with a waiting list of nearly seventy.\u00a0 Many  students decided to take the class in order to communicate with family  members and members of the community, or for purposes of job  advancement.\u00a0 This initiative was spearheaded by the 25-year veteran of Boston Public Schools and B.U alumnae, Ms. Jewelle Anderson, whose main desire was to provide a low-cost class to benefit the members of the Boston community.\u00a0 Ms. Anderson envisions a two-year program of classes given here in Boston followed by a study-abroad experience either in Mexico or Spain.\u00a0 In the photo, L to R,\u00a0 are Mahoney, Anderson, and Gibbons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing their love for teaching Spanish to the community, PhD students in Spanish Megan Gibbons, Mar\u00eda Luisa Mart\u00ednez and Peter Mahoney have been voluntarily teaching elementary Spanish to members of the Grandparents Action Program, which is part of the Women&#8217;s Service Club of Boston. Starting modestly last spring with two small groups, these BU teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}