{"id":267779,"date":"2026-08-18T22:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:22:06","slug":"bethlehem-area-school-district-kicks-off-new-year-with-convocation-at-freedom-high-school-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267779\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Area School District kicks off new year with convocation at Freedom High School | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Teachers and staff gathered at Freedom High School this afternoon for the Bethlehem Area School District&#8217;s convocation.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders welcomed back all the employees, not just educators.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured pep talks and affirmations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People willing to believe that tomorrow can be better today and then do the work to make it so. And that is the legacy that we have inherited. And now that legacy belongs to us,&#8221; said Maureen Leeson, Assistant Superintendent at Bethlehem Area School District.<\/p>\n<p>Awards were also handed out to honor many teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The kids officially go back on August 24th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Teachers and staff gathered at Freedom High School this afternoon for the Bethlehem Area School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15629,9747,44072,153,1412,155,154,60229,18725,95960,112876,1822,3316],"class_list":["post-267779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-academic-year","tag-awards","tag-back-to-school","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-convocation","tag-freedom-high-school","tag-maureen-leeson","tag-pep-talk","tag-staff","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267779","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=267779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}