{"id":300069,"date":"2026-06-08T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300069\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:06:26","slug":"education-notes-sanibel-captiva-island-reporter-islander-and-current-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300069\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Notes &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA &#8211; Island Reporter, Islander and Current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAND TEACHER RECOGNIZED WITH AWARD<\/p>\n<p>The School District of Lee County recently celebrated its four Regional Finalist Teachers of the Year, who were honored during the inaugural Legacy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The new awards are dedicated to recognizing peak excellence and lifetime commitment across the district.<\/p>\n<p>The regional finalists are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 East: Bianca McGinley at Lemuel Teal Middle School<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 North: Joseph Camputaro at Manatee Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 South: Barbara Scarnato at The Sanibel School<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 West: Nicole Micieli at Diplomat Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>The district noted that the outstanding educators represent the absolute best of their regions, bringing creativity, passion and a profound love for learning into their classrooms every single day.<\/p>\n<p>To reach SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LEE COUNTY, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/2026\/06\/education-notes-66\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISLAND TEACHER RECOGNIZED WITH AWARD The School District of Lee County recently celebrated its four Regional Finalist Teachers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-300069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300069","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=300069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}