{"id":30416,"date":"2012-05-03T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30416"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:37:16","slug":"schooled-at-a-skatepark-the-kona-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30416","title":{"rendered":"Schooled At A Skatepark: The Kona School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41495417\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>James Smith<\/strong>, the executive director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/konaschool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kona School<\/a><\/strong> has a pretty cool idea. Since it seems few school districts have time for anything other than improving test scores, let alone help kids learn the skills they&#8217;ll need to work in the world, Smith has come up with a better idea. Build a school at a skatepark. Plans for the first one are underway at Jacksonville, Florida&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konaskatepark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kona Skatepark<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By incorporating the most innovative instructional strategies with progressive technology, a focus on healthy living, and green campus construction, the mission of Kona School is to inspire in each student a desire to learn creatively, think independently, and act responsibly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t imagine that parents could ask for much more than that. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/konaschool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kona School<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Smith, the executive director of The Kona School has a pretty cool idea. Since it seems few school districts have time for anything other than improving test scores, let alone help kids learn the skills they&#8217;ll need to work in the world, Smith has come up with a better idea. Build a school at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30418,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416\/revisions\/30418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}