{"id":76846,"date":"2025-12-09T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76846\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:05:09","slug":"montfords-kenneth-horne-named-lcs-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76846\/","title":{"rendered":"Montford&#8217;s Kenneth Horne named LCS Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p>Leon County Schools announced their Teacher of the Year Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Kenneth Horne. He&#8217;s taught at Montford Middle School since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Horne tells us he enjoys teaching civics and bringing history to life for his students.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanks the other educators who helped shape his own teaching style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think everybody&#8217;s teacher of the year,&#8221; Horne said. &#8220;We help each other with ideas all the time. A certain portion of what I do with the kids I thought up independently, but most of it, I collected from other teachers over the years. We&#8217;ve been very helpful with one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Horne says he got his first teaching job when he was 20 years old after working at several local museums.<\/p>\n<p>The school district says Horne also volunteers at the Maritime Heritage Center in Panacea where he leads boat building workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT: Leon County Schools announced their Teacher of the Year Monday. Meet Kenneth Horne. He&#8217;s taught at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[42825,3703,3704,43290,2455,232,234,233,7331,13496],"class_list":["post-76846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-kenneth-horne","tag-lcs","tag-leon-county-schools","tag-montford-middle-school","tag-museum","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-teacher","tag-teacher-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76846","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=76846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}