{"id":233603,"date":"2026-03-24T03:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:51:15","slug":"lake-orions-shelby-mccumber-announced-as-oakland-county-elementary-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233603\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Orion&#8217;s Shelby McCumber Announced as Oakland County Elementary Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionontv.org\/events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-157925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ontv-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lake Orion\u2019s Shelby McCumber Announced as Oakland County Elementary Teacher of the Year<\/p>\n<p>(LOCS, March 23, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Lake Orion, MI \u2013 Lake Orion Community Schools staff members continue to be honored for their work.<\/p>\n<p>Orion Oaks teacher Shelby McCumber was announced Thursday as the Oakland County Elementary Teacher of the Year. She was celebrated by students, staff and family members, as Oakland Schools Superintendent Ken Gutman was on hand to make the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third consecutive year an LOCS staff member was celebrated as the county teacher of the year as Ms. McCumber joins Lake Orion High School teacher Erik Meerschaert (2025) and Orion Oaks colleague Norman Wright (2024).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe surprise of winning Teacher of the Year of Oakland Schools makes me feel so honored and grateful for this job,\u201d McCumber said. \u201cI put my heart and soul into it every day and I want to be here and help the kids. The fact that people are seeing the heart and soul that goes into it makes me feel really great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She will be honored at a county-wide celebration in May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oriontownship.org\/community\/orion_township\/community_events.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-166435 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Township-Talks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oakgov.com\/community\/oakland-county-parks\/parks-trails\/independence-oaks\/picnic-shelter-and-facility-rental\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-166846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OCP-rentals-ad-Twin-Chimneys-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"273\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/auburnhills.org\/community\/downtown\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-153742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AD_OaklandCountyTimes_2023864-x-216-v6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/reporter-food-index\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-166551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/restaurant-quest_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-160414 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Event-Page_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/northoaklandchambers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-156891 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/North-Oakland-Chamber-Ad_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/03\/23\/lake-orions-shelby-mccumber-announced-as-oakland-county-elementary-teacher-of-the-year\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/>Save this post to PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/03\/23\/lake-orions-shelby-mccumber-announced-as-oakland-county-elementary-teacher-of-the-year\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/>Print this post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Orion\u2019s Shelby McCumber Announced as Oakland County Elementary Teacher of the Year (LOCS, March 23, 2026) Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-233603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}