{"id":87225,"date":"2019-04-24T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=87225"},"modified":"2019-04-24T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:17:04","slug":"hillview-middle-school-named-unified-champion-school-by-special-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/04\/24\/hillview-middle-school-named-unified-champion-school-by-special-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillview Middle School named \u201cUnified Champion School\u201d by Special Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-87227\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hillview-Special-Olympics-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hillview-Special-Olympics-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Hillview-Special-Olympics.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PALMDALE &#8211; Hillview Middle School has been named a <em>\u201cUnified Champion School\u201d<\/em> by the Special Olympics organization. This honor was received due to the implementation of inclusion sports teams, disability awareness campaigns, and other inclusive opportunities on the campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so proud of what our Hillview students have accomplished over the past two years with our inclusion programs,\u201d said Jennifer Slater-Sanchez, Hillview Middle School Co-Principal. \u201cThe special education students have inspired the general education students, and vice-versa, and it\u2019s our students\u2019 enthusiasm that has resulted in this prestigious designation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to their website, the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools program is aimed at promoting social inclusion through intentionally planned and implemented activities affecting systems-wide change.\u00a0Hillview is the first and only middle school in the Antelope Valley to receive the Unified Champion School designation.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillview inclusion sports team program is now in its second year, with basketball in the spring and soccer in the fall. General education students volunteer their time as peer coaches, and then play three games per season alongside each other. The success of the inclusion sports team has led to other programs like Disability Awareness week and inclusion youth leadership programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur leadership has put together cutting-edge programs at Hillview Middle School through the inclusion programs,\u201d said Westside Union School District Superintendent Regina Rossall. \u201cThe students truly deserve the credit for this designation, however, for all the hard work that they have put into providing a shining example for others.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from Westside Union School District.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211; Hillview Middle School has been named a \u201cUnified Champion School\u201d by the Special Olympics organization. This honor was received due to the implementation of inclusion sports teams, disability awareness campaigns, and other inclusive opportunities on the campus. \u201cI am so proud of what our Hillview students have accomplished over the past two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}