It’s no secret teaching can have its challenges.

For Ronda Stacey, Holley Navarre Primary School’s teacher of the year, she has taken it upon herself to meet those challenges head on.

For six weeks during September, October, and November, Woodlawn Beach Middle School students met regularly to work on a project.

While students working on a project at school might not be a surprise, these students weren’t just putting together a paper mache globe. They were building a robot.

If you were lucky enough to have your grandparents in your life, you probably remember them teaching you things or just being there for you as you grew up.

That model of helping to raise kids is being translated to area schools in the form of the foster grandparent program.

When you walk into Dan Schmitt’s classroom at Holley Navarre Middle School, you immediately notice the rather large screens that dot the front portion of the room.

These screens are not meant to show movies or videos, but to help connect students dozens of miles away.

When you walk into Dan Schmitt’s classroom at Holley Navarre Middle School, you immediately notice the rather large screens that dot the front portion of the room. These screens are not meant to show movies or videos, but to help connect students dozens of miles away.

For many years, if you were a student who wanted to take a certain class that wasn’t offered at your school, then you were simply out of luck. But with broadcast classrooms, Santa Rosa County District Schools has given students that chance.