Education Archive

The Florida Council of Instructional Technology Leaders has selected Debbie Anderson, principal of S.S. Dixon Primary School in Pace, as its Innovative Principal of the Year for Florida.

The Santa Rosa Woman’s Club is encouraging local female high school seniors and any women returning to college to apply for a 2013-14 Florida General Federation of Women’s Clubs scholarship.

Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to raise teachers’ salaries meets skeptical optimism this week around Santa Rosa County.

Schools throughout the Navarre community spent Literacy Week Florida, as you would imagine, reading.

Four out of five Santa Rosa County Teacher of the Year semifinalists are from the south end of the county.

Holley-Navarre Intermediate School fourth graders got to see and smell what can happen if you don’t practice safety around electricity Jan. 10-11.

AT&T contributed $50,000 to the Emerald Coast BEST Robotics hub at University of West Florida. The program hosts an annual robotics competition for local middle and high school students who are interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

Gov. Rick Scott reappointed Luke Hunt, Harold “Ed” Moore and Marjorie “Margie” Moore to the Pensacola State College District Board of Trustees on Jan. 10.

Northwest Florida State College accepted Gov. Rick Scott’s challenge to create a $10,000 bachelor’s degree program.

On Dec. 14-15, Navarre High School NJROTC sent a team of 16 cadets to compete in a multiple-state Orienteering Competition at Oak Mountain, Ala., and qualified for the national competition in Maryland.