Teacher of the year is indeed a distinction among teachers. The winners find great honor in the award because they are selected by their peers. In her sixth year at the school, Emily Simon is West Navarre Primary’s award winner this year.
Teresa Berg is Holley-Navarre Intermediate’s Teacher of the Year. An 18-year veteran in the classroom, with 13 years at HNIS, Berg says she never stops learning and never tires of seeing the students learn something new. “I like teaching them something new and seeing their faces when they learn it,” Berg said.
Eighteen teachers from Santa Rosa County schools have been named ACCELerator Grant Program award winners, nearly double the total from a year ago when only 10 received grants.
On Oct. 23 signs were placed in each school of Santa Rosa County that read, “Students are invited to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country, but they are not required to do so.” Santa Rosa County Director of Middle Schools David Gunter says the signs were in response to a complaint from a parent who alleged that her son was forced to stand during the pledge of allegiance even though he expressed his unwillingness to do so. The school stood firm referring to F.S. 1003.44 and the Code of Student Conduct and referenced a section that states: “When the pledge is given, civilians must show full respect to the flag by standing at attention.”
Baton Rouge, La. (AP) — A federal judge has issued a final judgment rejecting Gov. Bobby Jindal’s federal lawsuit against the Common Core education standards, clearing the way for him to take his case to an appeals court.
Santa Rosa County School District’s Director of Federal Programs, Dr. Karen Barber, served as a distinguished guest speaker at the second annual Discovery Education STEM Leadership Symposium, Oct. 13 in St. Paul, Minn.
Hundreds of students grace the hallways of West Navarre Intermediate School. And a group of 18 of those students may well be the future journalists of Navarre. This class, known as iNKSTAND, is reporting the news of WNIS through a digital newsletter under the leadership of teachers Kenny Long and Elizabeth Bauer.
