{"id":972,"date":"2013-08-20T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:49:04","slug":"check-out-this-short-documentary-about-another-vcuei-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"VELLOP: Giving Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VELLOP<\/strong> (Vassar English Language Learners Outreach Program) is one of VAST&#8217;s sister programs that pairs Vassar College mentors with immigrant students in the Poughkeepsie school district to help improve their English and increase academic achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, a Vassar student named Sierra Soto created this 12-minute documentary entitled &#8220;<strong>VELLOP: Giving Back<\/strong>.&#8221; Watch it to learn more about the challenges ELLs face at Poughkeepsie High School and how much Vassar students learned from working with them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Click on the link below to watch the movie:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a title=\"VELLOP: Giving Back\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w5dKSG6sXTQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">VELLOP: Giving Back<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/03\/logo-red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-47\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/03\/logo-red-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"logo red\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VELLOP (Vassar English Language Learners Outreach Program) is one of VAST&#8217;s sister programs that pairs Vassar College mentors with immigrant students in the Poughkeepsie school district to help improve their English and increase academic achievement. Last spring, a Vassar student named Sierra Soto created this 12-minute documentary entitled &#8220;VELLOP: Giving Back.&#8221; Watch it to learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50463],"tags":[59718,50464,155],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vcuei","tag-vcuei","tag-vellop","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}