{"id":1594,"date":"2021-11-07T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2021-11-15T01:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:13:00","slug":"social-studies-teacher-patrick-wondra-is-happy-to-be-a-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/social-studies-teacher-patrick-wondra-is-happy-to-be-a-falcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies Teacher Patrick Wondra Is Happy to Be a Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898-1024x754.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1407\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898-1024x754.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898-300x221.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898-768x565.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898-1536x1131.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898-570x420.jpeg 570w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/855318C4-8080-4FAE-8721-63AF050CF20E-scaled-e1636259410898.jpeg 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Social studies teacher Mr. Wondra teaches one of his Global Studies classes. (Photo by Jordan Smith \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Social studies teacher Patrick Wondra is new to Elmira High School but not to the Fern Ridge School District. He transferred to EHS this year from Fern Ridge Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wondra agreed to answer a few questions from Falcon News to help students and staff get to know him better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What classes do you teach?:<\/strong> \u201cI teach five periods of Global Studies for freshmen and then one period of Government to seniors.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>&nbsp;Do you like teaching at Elmira High School?:<\/strong> \u201cYes, I do!\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What made you want to be a teacher<\/strong>?: \u201cI wanted to be a teacher because I want to help people realize where we have been and understand where we are going.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>&nbsp;What college did you attend?:<\/strong> \u201cI went to Western Oregon University.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What goals do you have?:<\/strong> \u201cMy goals are to be an effective teacher and continue to coach high school sports.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Full name and nickname:<\/strong> \u201cMy full name is Patrick Wondra, and my nickname is Mr. Wondraful.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Which sports do you coach?<\/strong>: \u201cI currently coach high school football and high school track and field.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What is your favorite sports team?<\/strong>: \u201cThe Seattle Seahawks.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is new to EHS this year after teaching at Fern Ridge Middle School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-staff-spotlight","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}