JOHNSTOWN, Pa. \u2013 Westmont Hilltop School District was chosen as one of four educational institutions from throughout Pennsylvania to present at this year\u2019s Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition Summit that took place Monday.<\/p>\n
Elementary Principal Nicole Kuzmiak served on the summit panel, where she discussed literacy growth alongside representatives from Mohawk Area, Scranton and Middletown Area school districts.<\/p>\n
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Joshua Byers is a reporter for The Tribune-Democrat. He can be reached at 814-532-5054. Follow him on Twitter @Journo_Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHNSTOWN, Pa. \u2013 Westmont Hilltop School District was chosen as one of four educational institutions from throughout Pennsylvania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24305,66287,498,67303,16393,227,499,67301,501,496,497,67300,21933,502,28,30,29,736,67302,9167,500],"class_list":["post-147627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-behavior-modification","tag-branches-of-science","tag-cognition","tag-cognitive-science","tag-communication","tag-education","tag-education-theory","tag-educational-practices","tag-human-communication","tag-intelligence","tag-learning","tag-learning-methods","tag-literacy","tag-pedagogy","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-reading","tag-science-of-reading","tag-teacher","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}