{"id":324810,"date":"2026-06-30T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324810\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:23:11","slug":"a-teacher-spends-summer-teaching-at-the-florida-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324810\/","title":{"rendered":"A+ Teacher spends summer teaching at The Florida Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. &#8212;\u00a0 This week\u2019s A+ Teacher helps students learn throughout the school year and the summer. Michelle Bostich is a paraeducator at Buckhorn Elementary. She works with children with autism in kindergarten through fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love it,&#8221; Bostich said. &#8220;I love working with the children. I love working with the families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, Bostich teaches campers attending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flaquarium.org\/programs\/for-families\/camps\/summer-aquacamps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Florida Aquarium\u2019s AquaCamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bostich said she loves the creativity with the artwork the kids do and their curiosity and questions about the animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichelle brings a level of energy and enthusiasm that is just remarkable for our summer camp program,\u201d said Tristin Ware, The Florida Aquarium\u2019s Senior Director of Learning.<\/p>\n<p>Bostich said she uses the skills she\u2019s learned in the classroom to help campers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone is having a harder day, I\u2019ll go in and meet them where they are and make sure they start feeling comfortable and are able to enjoy camp to the fullest experience that they can,\u201d said Bostich. She went on to say, \u201cI hope they leave camp feeling more comfortable trying new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you know an educator spending the summer leading a camp or summer program? <\/p>\n<p>You can nominate them to be our next A+ Teacher by filling out the form on the right side of <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/community\/a-plus-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8212;\u00a0 This week\u2019s A+ Teacher helps students learn throughout the school year and the summer. Michelle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12422,12421,274,113,55104,115,135,137,136,278,835],"class_list":["post-324810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-a-plus-teachers","tag-app-a-teachers","tag-app-top-stories","tag-education","tag-jorja-roman","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324810","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=324810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}