{"id":305213,"date":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305213\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","slug":"fresno-unified-teacher-named-kindergarten-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305213\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified teacher named &#8216;Kindergarten Teacher of the Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 8, 2026 12:40AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno Unified teacher named 'Kindergarten Teacher of the Year'\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; It&#8217;s Teacher Appreciation Week and a Fresno Unified educator is earning praise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pahoua Xiong from Susan B. Anthony Elementary was named the district&#8217;s &#8220;Kindergarten Teacher of the Year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She is going above and beyond for her students, preparing them for successful futures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mrs. Xiong was recently surprised by ABC30 President and General Manager Martin Ortiz. He presented her with a Donors Choose certificate on behalf of our station and our parent company, Disney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">You can support teachers&#8217; projects by visiting <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/classroom\/disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DonorsChoose.org\/Disney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, May 8, 2026 12:40AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; It&#8217;s Teacher Appreciation Week and a Fresno Unified educator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[128567,112,114,113,14569,128564,128566,10384,128565,294],"class_list":["post-305213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-128567","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-unified","tag-kindergarten-teacher-of-the-year","tag-susan-b-anthony-elementary","tag-teacher","tag-teacher-appreciation-week","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305213","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=305213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}