{"id":15741,"date":"2025-10-22T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15741\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:44:07","slug":"martin-county-prepares-to-name-2025-2026-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15741\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County prepares to name 2025-2026 ‘Teacher of the Year’"},"content":{"rendered":"

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Education Foundation of Martin County is preparing to honor outstanding educators at its annual Teacher of the Year Awards Celebration on Nov. 14. <\/p>\n

Vanessa Molina-Council of Citrus Grove Elementary, named the Martin County Teacher of the Year for 2024-2025, stopped by ARC Florida along with Lisa Rhodes, Executive Director of the Martin County Education Foundation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The program invites every public school in the county to nominate a Teacher of the Year candidate, with 24 candidates selected this year. <\/p>\n

Winners will be announced in elementary, middle, and high school categories, with one overall winner advancing to the state competition. <\/p>\n

The event also features a Spirit Award for the school with the most creative and energetic participation. <\/p>\n

Community members are encouraged to vote for their favorite teacher, sharing how the educator has positively impacted their lives, here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Voting is open until Nov. 1, with the community choice influencing the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Education Foundation of Martin County is preparing to honor outstanding educators at its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13499,13501,13497,13498,1160,13500,171,173,172,13502,13496],"class_list":["post-15741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-awards","tag-community-voting","tag-education-foundation","tag-educators","tag-martin-county","tag-nomination","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-school-categories","tag-teacher-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741","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=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}