{"id":1362,"date":"2016-04-21T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2016-04-21T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:11:14","slug":"dominate-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Dominate Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that all educators have strong feelings about standardized testing. No matter how we feel about the upcoming test (and I will say I&#8217;m thankful that this year we&#8217;re spending FAR less days testing!), our CMS faculty tries their hardest to make the best of the situation. Every year for the past four years, we&#8217;ve released a teacher music video immediately before testing. I&#8217;m so excited to share this year&#8217;s video&#8230;and revisit our previous ones as well!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve served as the main planner, videographer, and editor for our videos for the past several years. This year, I passed the torch along to our awesome speech teacher, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lespierceyeah\">Leslie Pierce<\/a>. She did such a great job pulling this together, along with the help of my BFF and ELA teacher, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alaperouse\">Alaina Laperouse<\/a>, and our band teacher, Thomas Huckaby.<\/p>\n<p>They rewrote and recorded a version of Rihanna&#8217;s Desperado&#8230;our version is called Dominate. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6E57szRQTms\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We want the world to see this video (and how awesome our CMS teachers are)&#8230;so please share it out! We REALLY would love for Rihanna to see it!!<\/p>\n<p>And just for fun&#8230;here are our videos from the past several years:<\/p>\n<p>2015 &#8211; Shake It Off<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ACujhYik7as\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2014 &#8211; Happy<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/huETcvgjS-A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2013 &#8211; Harlem Shake<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qgqZAgPLOUU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love this tradition so much! It helps us bond as a faculty and make GREAT memories&#8230;and of course laugh at ourselves and have fun. We are middle school teachers, after all!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have an awesome, fun teacher tradition at your school?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that all educators have strong feelings about standardized testing. No matter how we feel about the upcoming test (and I will say I&#8217;m thankful that this year we&#8217;re spending FAR less days testing!), our CMS faculty tries their hardest to make the best of the situation. Every year for the past four years,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1362\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-my-ramblings","category-reflections","category-resources-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}