{"id":2323,"date":"2023-10-22T18:32:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2023-10-19T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:35:46","slug":"amy-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/speakers\/amy-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Amy High. I am a Wilson County native.<br>\u00a0<br>I was inspired to become a teacher by my experience as a student in Wilson County Schools.<br>I attended Atlantic Christian College where I received a BS degree in Elementary Education. I was employed by Wilson County Schools as an elementary teacher at Vinson-Bynum Elementary School. I continued teaching for eight years.<br>\u00a0<br>I attended East Carolina University where I received a Master\u2019s Degree in School Counseling. I was hired as the School Counselor at Vinson-Bynum Elementary School where I worked with students and their families until I retired in 2010.<br>\u00a0<br>I always had a passion for working with families. I was hired by the Mediation Center of Eastern Carolina in 2010. I worked with at risk youth and their families for three years before returning to Wilson County Schools in 2013.<br>\u00a0<br>In 2013 I returned to Wilson County Schools as the McKinney-Vento Liaison. I work with students, staff, and families to ensure that we are in compliance with the McKinney-Vento Act and students are receiving appropriate services. I work with our homeless families encouraging parents to be involved in their children\u2019s education and in develop a plan to overcome homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Amy High. I am a Wilson County native.\u00a0I was inspired to become a teacher by my experience as a student in Wilson County Schools.I attended Atlantic Christian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonrotary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}