Education Archive

Navarre High School held its annual Senior Awards Night Thursday, May 14, in the school gymnasium. The event celebrated the academic accomplishments of the Class of 2026.

A cyber attack left colleges and universities across the U.S. scrambling to adjust amidst finals. Other nations’ institutes of higher learning were also impacted.

The attack, reportedly perpetrated by a criminal hacker group known as Shinyhunters, was against Instructure, the host company of Canvas. The hacker group claimed it had breached Canvas, getting possession of user data such as names, email addresses, messages and ID numbers.

While most Santa Rosa County schools are focused on finishing the 2025-26 school year, Kasie Windfelder is already planning for the opening of Soundside High School in 2026-27.

Windfelder is the principal of Soundside High School, the new high school on the south end of Santa Rosa County. Located in Midway across from the Gulf Breeze Zoo, the school is nearing completion. Construction cost around $115 million.

On May 1, Windfelder gave Navarre Press reporter Hansen Hasenberg a tour of the new school.

Sarah Pena, a Kindergarten teacher at West Navarre Primary School, was recently recognized as a winner of the FSU InSPIRE America 250 Challenge in AI literacy.

The challenge featured teachers who’ve completed professional development courses on AI and robotics in the eight Northwest Florida counties InSPIRE serves.

Working in education, you can touch many lives, even if you aren’t in the classroom.

Donovan Howard, who recently suffered a stroke, serves as a bus driver for several Navarre schools. With his focus now on his health, a colleague stepped up to help support the family in their hour of need.

Holley-Navarre Middle School hosted its annual art show April 30. The art displayed represented students across multiple grade levels.

A former Santa Rosa County District Schools employee is behind bars after allegations surfaced from her time as bookkeeper at Holley-Navarre Intermediate School.

Delaney Ward has always wanted to be a teacher.

“I was interested in the background or the behind the scenes of teaching when I was a student, even before I found my calling,” Ward said.

After hours of pointed arguments, emotional appeals and tense deliberation, the Santa Rosa County School Board voted April 22 to give district teachers a fully recurring 2% salary increase, ending months of failed negotiations and leaving union leaders relieved.

East Bay K-8 is one of 14 schools in Santa Rosa County to be recognized as a PBIS Model School for the 2024-25 school year. This is the first year the school has been named a model school. It has had a PBIS program for four years.