{"id":39585,"date":"2016-04-06T19:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39585"},"modified":"2016-04-06T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:06:06","slug":"lehigh-acres-has-a-golden-apple-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/lehigh-acres-has-a-golden-apple-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Has A Golden Apple Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39586\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39586\" title=\"Kelly Mains\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kelly-Mains-300x234.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kelly-Mains-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kelly-Mains.png 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Mains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kindergarten teacher Kelly Mains knows first-hand the hard work required to win a Golden Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Foundation for public schools evaluates stacks of nominations, and all this week, we&#8217;re introducing you to the winners.<\/p>\n<p>Here we show you why Lehigh Acres Tortuga Preserve Elementary has a reason to be proud.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing Mains showed us was something you don&#8217;t expect from kindergartners &#8212; they were reading at a second-grade level.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Golden Apple winner says everything she learned came from her mother, who also worked in education.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Mains is in her 23rd year of teaching. She says she got into the business and stays in education for two reasons: her sons Nick and Kyle.<\/p>\n<p>It was an emotional Golden Apple surprise the day she won as she was surrounded by her &#8220;other kids.&#8221; She is in a sense another mom to her students.<\/p>\n<p>And eventually, when the day comes to say goodbye to her final class, it will likely be a group just starting their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten teacher Kelly Mains knows first-hand the hard work required to win a Golden Apple. The Lee County Foundation for public schools evaluates stacks of nominations, and all this week,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}