{"id":307015,"date":"2026-05-09T02:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:18:25","slug":"fresno-unified-middle-school-teacher-of-the-year-joseph-bushong-goes-above-and-beyond-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified Middle School Teacher of the Year Joseph Bushong goes above and beyond for students"},"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>Saturday, May 9, 2026 1:47AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno Unified Middle School Teacher of the Year Joseph Bushong goes above and beyond for students\"\/><\/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 \">Mike Bushong, Fresno Unified&#8217;s &#8220;Middle School Teacher of the Year,&#8221; uses fun techniques while engaging with his English and drama students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mr. Bushong was recently surprised with a Donors Choose certificate on behalf of ABC30 and our parent company, The Walt Disney Company.<\/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":"Saturday, May 9, 2026 1:47AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; It&#8217;s Teacher Appreciation Week and a Fresno Unified educator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[129124,112,114,113,14569,128564,128566,10384,128565,294],"class_list":["post-307015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-129124","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\/307015","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=307015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}