{"id":161156,"date":"2026-04-09T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:51:09","slug":"bciu-honors-teacher-with-annie-sullivan-award-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161156\/","title":{"rendered":"BCIU honors teacher with Annie Sullivan Award | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Intermediate Unit named the winner of its Annie Sullivan Award on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Suppa is a building trades instructor at the Reading Muhlenberg Career and Technology Center.<\/p>\n<p>The award honors local teachers for their service to students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Suppa\u2019s supervisor says he built the program from the ground up, helping students develop foundational construction skills while gaining confidence and independence.<\/p>\n<p>Annie Sullivan was Helen Keller\u2019s teacher and mentor who was nearly blind herself. After treatment, she regained her sight and committed herself to teaching the blind and deaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Intermediate Unit named the winner of its Annie Sullivan Award on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72722,33894,72724,72723,128,130,129,50400],"class_list":{"0":"post-161156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-annie-sullivan-award","9":"tag-berks-county-intermediate-unit","10":"tag-helen-keller","11":"tag-peter-suppa","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-reading-muhlenberg-career-and-technology-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}