{"id":224132,"date":"2026-03-28T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/224132\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:06:09","slug":"risd-2024-25-teacher-of-the-year-recipients-honored-by-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/224132\/","title":{"rendered":"RISD\u00a02024-25\u00a0\u201cTeacher of the Year\u201d Recipients Honored by City Council\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Kirk, RISD\u00a0Elementary\u00a0Teacher of the Year\u00a02024-25, and Diana Larsen, RISD Secondary Teacher of the Year 2024-25, were honored at Monday\u2019s City Council meeting with proclamations.\u00a0Kirk,\u00a0music teacher\u00a0at\u00a0Richland Elementary, and Larsen,\u00a012th\u00a0grade AVID teacher\u00a0at Berkner High School, were\u00a0chosen through a rigorous process conducted by a committee of parents, board members and staff who visit classrooms, conduct interviews and review essays submitted by nominators to identify the most outstanding educators in the District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Teacher-Proclamations-March-23-Meeting-30-Joint-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Teacher Proclamations from the March 23 Meeting\" class=\"wp-image-25158\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Presentations:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richardsontx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/378878?ts=602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dylan Kirk\u00a0Video<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richardsontx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/378878?ts=879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Diana Larsen Video<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Kirk, RISD\u00a0Elementary\u00a0Teacher of the Year\u00a02024-25, and Diana Larsen, RISD Secondary Teacher of the Year 2024-25, were honored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-224132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}