{"id":487486,"date":"2026-10-07T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487486\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:58:14","slug":"valley-teacher-and-coach-using-story-to-encourage-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487486\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley teacher and coach using story to encourage students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sat down with Jonathan Clark, who shares how the big setback turned into an even bigger blessing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessa Vasconcelos Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/13299281_052523-kfsn-vanessa-vasconcelos-Bio-Image.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 6, 2026 10:40PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC30 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local high school teacher and coach is using his story to encourage his students to reach new heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He&#8217;s sharing with them how he went from being told he wasn&#8217;t good enough to play basketball to doing the impossible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">We sat down with Jonathan Clark, who shares how the big setback turned into an even bigger blessing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">You can learn more about Jonathan&#8217;s story and personal records <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/jclarkthejumper.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">You can also book him for speaking events or dunk shows.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We sat down with Jonathan Clark, who shares how the big setback turned into an even bigger blessing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[190410,112,114,113,167565,294],"class_list":["post-487486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-190410","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-badge","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487486","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=487486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}