It\u2019s that time of year when schools recognize the many teachers and staff who make a difference each and every day. Area schools name a Teacher of the Year, Rookie Teacher of the Year and School-Related Employee of the Year to honor the hard work and dedication of the many people who shape the future of the community.<\/p>\n
Julie Sebestyn was awarded Ocean Palms Elementary School\u2019s Teacher of the Year. She is a kindergarten teacher at the school. Varying exceptionalities teacher, Madeline Hays, was named Rookie Teacher of the Year, and the School-Related Employee of the Year is Matt Hoffman, maintenance director.<\/p>\n
Landrum Middle School\u2019s Teacher of the Year is Brooke Jared, a sixth-grade English and intensive reading teacher. Madeline Miller, a seventh-grade science teacher, was named Rookie Teacher of the Year, and Javier Banos, maintenance, was recognized as the School-Related Employee of the Year.<\/p>\n
Finally, Ponte Vedra High School\u2019s Teacher of the Year is English teacher and Education Academy teacher Shannon Pickard. The school\u2019s Rookie Teacher of the Year is geometry teacher, Presley Garrard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of year when schools recognize the many teachers and staff who make a difference each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-430542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430542","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=430542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}