{"id":150310,"date":"2026-02-10T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/150310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:50:28","slug":"tampa-teachers-career-spans-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/150310\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa teacher’s career spans decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Sonia Spoto became a teacher 57 years ago.<\/p>\n

She said teaching has always been a part of her. And since 2001, she\u2019s been a part of Trinity School for Children.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Sonia Spoto is a veteran teacher, with almost six decades of experience\u00a0
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She has been at Trinity School for Children since 2001, now serving as a math and science instructional coach\u00a0
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\u201cMy heart is here,\u201d she said. \u201cI have to tell you that. Even before this school opened up, I was part of helping start the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spoto is the math and science instructional coach at the school. She helps her students find ways to relate to learning math.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just try to break it down into something that makes sense to me so that it can make sense to them,\u201d said Spoto.<\/p>\n

Spoto has a building named after her on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a thrill to know that this is going to be named after me for as\u00a0long as they have it,\u201d said Spoto.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of her students, Colton Whitcomb, nominated Spoto to be recognized as an A+ Teacher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think a lot of people recognize how much effort she puts in for us,\u201d said Whitcomb. \u201cShe\u2019s made everyone\u2019s trip up through Trinity amazing and great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spoto said she was honored, mainly because the recognition came from a student.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause he felt the need to recognize a teacher, not necessarily me but a teacher, that he felt really has helped him,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite amazing to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Sonia Spoto became a teacher 57 years ago. She said teaching has always been a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12422,12421,4996,28,55104,135,137,136,835],"class_list":["post-150310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-a-plus-teachers","tag-app-a-teachers","tag-app-education","tag-florida","tag-jorja-roman","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}