{"id":345310,"date":"2015-04-18T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=345310"},"modified":"2015-04-19T05:19:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T10:19:56","slug":"tjc-alumnus-a-sondheim-inspirational-teacher-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=345310","title":{"rendered":"TJC Alumnus A Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/Sondheim-award-winner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/Sondheim-award-winner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sondheim award winner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-345311\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Junior College has two connections to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards: A winning teacher and the student who nominated him. JP Fugler, on the right, a former TJC student and current speech teacher at Van High School, is one of 13 educators nationwide, and the only winner from Texas, selected this year from an extensive pool of nominees. Fugler was nominated for the Sondheim award by his former VHS student Jacob Savage, who is now a freshman speech\/communications major at TJC.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In spring of 2008, Fugler himself was a standout speech student at TJC, where he earned awards for parliamentary debate and program oral interpretation. After TJC, he finished his education at The University of Texas at Tyler. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a speech teacher, and Tyler Junior<br \/>\nCollege groomed me for that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fugler said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153(TJC speech professor) M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Liss Hindman is one of the people I credit most for shaping me as an educator.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Even after Fugler transferred to UT Tyler, Hindman created an internship so he could assist her with coaching the TJC speech team. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She taught me how to be a teacher,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sondheim awards were created in 2010, in honor of composer Stephen Sondheim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 80th birthday, and they were initiated and funded through the support of Myrna and Freddie Gershon. Award recipients each receive $10,000 and are showcased, along with the people they inspired, on a website dedicated to inspirational teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler Junior College has two connections to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards: A winning teacher and the student who nominated him. JP Fugler, on the right, a former TJC student and current speech teacher at Van High School, is one of 13 educators nationwide, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=345310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TJC Alumnus A Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award Winner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 00:49:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345312,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345310\/revisions\/345312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}