Education Archive

Stapleton spent the last 26 years at Navarre High, mostly as an art teacher and later as a department chair. She was the third person hired at the school when it first opened back in 1996.

If you went to Navarre High School at any point in time, then you are likely familiar with Julia Stapleton.

She spent the past 39 years teaching around 8,000 students. Stapleton, who is originally from Illinois, moved to Florida in 1982 and began teaching in 1983.

Three weeks into the school year, Santa Rosa County’s new bus system is making the grade.

School board member Linda Sanborn, a retired teacher, said her former colleagues at Milton High School were thrilled with the results.

In 2021, a study from the CDC found that e-cigarette use among youth remained a serious public health concern even amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study estimated that more than two million U.S. middle and high school students reported currently using e-cigarettes and vapes in 2021.

School administrators from across Santa Rosa County were busy at work before school opened Aug. 10.

Prior to the school year, school administrators were engaged in hiring new personnel, enrolling new students, creating master schedules, breaking down assessment data from the previous year and collaborating with other administrators from different schools.

The prospect of a new high school coming to the Midway area recently took a major leap forward.

At the July 21 school board meeting, DAG Architects unveiled phase one of their plans for the proposed high school, which will be built on the site where the Flea Market used to be on Highway 98. It will be three stories.

Attorneys for the universities submitted a notice Tuesday that is a first step toward filing a brief supporting Jacquelyn Faircloth, who was 18 when she was hit by the truck in 2014 while crossing a Tallahassee street. Faircloth had been drinking, as had the 20-year-old driver of the truck, who had been at Potbelly’s, a bar near the Florida State campus.

With school beginning on Aug. 10, school administrators, teachers, staff, students and parents are all getting ready for a brand new year.

With a new school year in sight, Navarre High School principal Kacie Windfelder shared what is ahead.

Navarre High School Principal Kasie Windfelder was named the Santa Rosa County District Schools’ High School Principal of the Year for 2022-2023 at a meeting of school administrators on July 26.

Navarre High School responded to the recognition on their Facebook page, “this honor is well-deserved, and we are endlessly thankful for how she tirelessly serves our school community every day.”