Excitement was in the air in Beth DePersio’s class March 5 at West Navarre Intermediate School. It was the much anticipated “frog day.’’ The students gathered around a substitute teacher as she explained to the students what they were going to discover.
The three most pressing issues the county’s public schools will face in the coming year are equal budgets, campus safety and fair assessments of staff performance, Santa Rosa County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick said Feb. 27 during a community update at Tiger Point Golf Club.
Two Holley-Navarre Intermediate School fifth-grade teams will compete at the statewide Odyssey of the Mind competition April 6 at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Florida jumped from sixth to fourth in the nation when it comes to the percentage of students scoring three or better on an advanced placement exam according to “The 9th Annual AP Report to the Nation” released last week by the College Board.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A “Plan B” is needed in case the anticipated replacement for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, fails to materialize or is delayed, the state’s new education commissioner said Monday.
Florida’s new teacher evaluation system isn’t working, and lawmakers should stop making major changes in the state’s schools until that plan and other key initiatives are fixed and implemented, Florida Senate President Don Gaetz said.
When Ann Thompson gave her physician boss of 24 years 12-months’ notice that she was going to quit her medical technician job and become a teacher, he was incredulous.
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.
