Education Archive

Gulf Breeze’s Coastline Christian Academy has finished in third place in a nationwide #YearbookHero contest. First grade teacher and co-editor of the yearbook Alabanza Loera-Gracia was nominated by another teacher for balancing her responsibilities as a teacher, teaching Spanish to her first-grade students, holding multiple other jobs and still being a driving force to preserve the important stories of the year in the school’s yearbook.

It’s not every day that you build a bridge with popsicle sticks in science class. Recently, East Bay K-8 sixth graders did just that.

“The students were given the task to build a prototype bridge (engineering & design) that would be used to connect two cities together that was separated by a river, and was 50 kilometers apart,” East Bay K-8 Earth/Space Science teacher Joseph D. Pritchard said.

“I will graduate, I will succeed” is the motto at Santa Rosa Adult School (SRAS) and it’s read over the speakers every morning during announcements on ITV.

The winners of Home Builders Association of West Florida’s Tradesmen Education Council Construction Scholarship for 2021-2022 have been announced.

Seven weeks into its first semester open, East Bay K-8 is thriving and growing.

Carly Russ is in select company as Navarre’s first National Merit Scholar semifinalist in several years.

The senior is honored to be in the running for one of the scholarships that will be given out to half of the 15,000 finalists.

Growing up in Santa Rosa County, Nick and Brittany Herbst were the kids who didn’t have money for school events. And when their two oldest children started school several years ago, they even struggled to meet those extra needs.

Jana Babst’s second grade class at East Bay K-8 participated in a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) project using recycled materials with a focus on citizenship.

Jenny Fricks, a former first grade teacher and assistant principal at West Navarre Primary has been appointed as the new principal of S.S. Dixon Primary School in Pace.

Santa Rosa County District Schools is working with safety technology company BusPatrol to improve road safety for students this back-to-school season.