{"id":15127,"date":"2023-08-21T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=15127"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:49:07","slug":"imagination-land-using-imagination-to-teach-abstract-difficult-concepts","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/event\/imagination-land-using-imagination-to-teach-abstract-difficult-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination Land &#8211; Using Imagination to Teach Abstract &#038; Difficult Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<p>Many students struggle to understand complex and abstract concepts. Imagination-land uses brain science to explore ways teachers can use story telling and fictional situations to help students grasp abstract concepts, before transferring them into &#8220;the real world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>The Presenter: Michael Grether<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15128 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/940a9b_4b03b40ea72d49619bfac3f14e7d10a1mv2_d_6720_4480_s_4_2-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/940a9b_4b03b40ea72d49619bfac3f14e7d10a1mv2_d_6720_4480_s_4_2-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/940a9b_4b03b40ea72d49619bfac3f14e7d10a1mv2_d_6720_4480_s_4_2.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/>Wake Forest High School (Wake County Public Schools); Michael Grether has been an educator since 2007 with Wake County Public Schools; currently teaching Social Studies at Wake Forest High School. Mr. Grether has a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree for Ohio University and a Masters in Curriculum\/Instruction\/Assessment from Walden University. In 2019 Michael Grether was a Top 10 Finalist for Wake County Teacher of the Year, along with WRAL&#8217;s Top Choice Teacher Runner-Up. In 2020, he was the NSHSS Claes Nobel National Coach-Educator Runner Up.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Webinar Access<\/h4>\n<p>#member only | <a href=\"https:\/\/ncge.app.neoncrm.com\/neonPage.jsp?pageId=26&amp;\">Join Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Many students struggle to understand complex and abstract concepts. Imagination-land uses brain science to explore ways teachers can use story telling and fictional situations to help students grasp abstract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15129,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[77],"tribe_events_cat":[16],"class_list":["post-15127","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-member","tribe_events_cat-webinars","cat_webinars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15127\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncge.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}