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SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 ABC10, in partnership with SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union and Sacramento State\u2019s College of Education, is proud to announce Helen Rasmussen as Teacher of the Month for June 2026. Mrs. Rasmussen teaches 6th Grade at Maeola R. Beitzel Elementary in Sacramento CA. In place for 20+ years, Teacher of the Month is one of ABC10\u2019s signature community enrichment initiatives designed to highlight local teachers making a difference in the lives of their students and families.<\/p>\n
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Rasmussen has been teaching for 11 years. Her nominator says, \u201cShe is an outstanding teacher who is fully engaged in developing her students both academically and socially. She is engaged and engaging during all lessons; watching, listening, assessing, and readjusting as needed to meet her students’ needs (which can be very challenging when working with emerging adolescents). Her teaching environment is positive and supportive, as well as fun.\u201d<\/p>\n Rasmussen\u2019s advice to parents is: \u201cStay connected with your child and teachers through communication and showing up to events. My parents were unable to communicate in English with my teachers growing up, but they showed up anyway and were always present in reminding me their expectations for school.\u201d<\/p>\n As part of being recognized as Teacher of the Month, Mrs. Rasmussen will receive $1,000 from SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union and will be eligible for the title of Teacher of the Year \u2013 that includes a $5,000 prize \u2013 which will be announced June 2027.<\/p>\n To nominate a local teacher<\/a> in the greater Sacramento\/Stockton\/Modesto area for an upcoming Teacher of the Month, please visit abc10.com\/teacherofthemonth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasmussen has been teaching for 11 years. SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 ABC10, in partnership with SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-345217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345217","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=345217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n June 2026: ABC10\u2019s Teacher of the Month is Helen Rasmussen
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