{"id":7521,"date":"2016-01-06T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bp-alaska-teachers-of-excellence-program-accepting-nominations\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:02:30","slug":"bp-alaska-teachers-of-excellence-program-accepting-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/bp-alaska-teachers-of-excellence-program-accepting-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"BP Alaska Teachers Of Excellence Program accepting nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2013 BP is accepting nominations for the annual BP Teachers of Excellence program, which recognizes Alaska teachers\u2019 exceptional work. Anyone can nominate a BP Teacher of Excellence by visiting BPteachers.com. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The program will honor K-12 teachers from public or private schools who have made important contributions to education and their communities over the past year. Each BP Teacher of Excellence will receive a $500 gift card and a $500 matching grant to their school. BP also will select one Teacher of the Year who will receive a $1,500 scholarship for continuing education. <\/p>\n<p>Since the program\u2019s inception in 1995, BP has recognized more than 650 Alaska teachers and still receives more than 1,000 nominations each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2013 BP is accepting nominations for the annual BP Teachers of Excellence program, which recognizes Alaska teachers\u2019 exceptional work. Anyone can nominate a BP Teacher of Excellence by visiting BPteachers.com. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 1. The program will honor K-12 teachers from public or private schools who have made important contributions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}