May 10, 2019 – It was always clear that attending college would be in the future for Robert E. Lee High School seniors Isaiah Shabazz and Keith Price Jr. “In my household, it was put in my head at a young age I was going to college,” said Price Jr. “It doesn’t matter what college […]
Read MoreMarch 18, 2019 – The Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) can be nerve-racking for a lot of students. Here are some tips from our department heads, Brandie Barry and Shawn Wigg, to help you succeed on the big test likely starting April 1. When studying Take the practice test. The FSA website contains practice tests that […]
Read MoreMarch 13, 2019 – Decreasing attendance and increasing behavior issues. That’s what Principal Tammy Haberman and School Counselor Joshua Nelson noticed three years ago as R.L. Brown was transitioning from a neighborhood school to a dedicated magnet school. The two began brainstorming to find a creative way to address their issues. Their first brainchild was […]
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March 8, 2019 – Students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and Robert E. Lee High School are positively impacting their campuses by taking the lead in addressing mental health and wellness among young people. Douglas Anderson senior, Chloe Cuff, said she was inspired to start the club DA for Change after attending the […]
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Feb. 22, 2019 – Students at Ribault High School are giving back to their community members in dollars and cents. Through a four-week training program available to students in the school’s Vystar Academy of Business and Finance, more than 100 students have become certified as volunteer tax preparers. The program is through Realsense, which […]
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Feb. 5, 2019 – They engineer robots, they complete NASA-inspired tasks, they talk with physical therapists about spine expansion in space, and…then they go to recess. These future engineers are fifth-graders at Joseph Finegan Elementary School. They are one of the 56 elementary and middle school First Lego League teams in Duval County Public Schools. […]
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Feb. 4, 2019 – “I always wanted to be a teacher,” said Sarah Pasion, Teacher of the Year finalist. “It’s my destiny.” The fourth-grade math teacher’s desire to be an educator started when she was child. She watched as her aunt, who was a teacher, got doted on by her students. She said her […]
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Jan. 31, 2019 – Graham Glasheen calmly walked up to the microphone after being asked to spell a word meaning “intended to teach.” D-I-D-A-C-T-I-C. Didactic. It was that moment the Hendricks Avenue Elementary fifth-grader won the county-wide Scripps Spelling Bee — a feat he was unsure he would be able to achieve. “I […]
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Jan. 28, 2019 – Rachel Duff points to a vocabulary word on the board and enunciates it slowly for her students to repeat. She does this two more times before motioning with her hands and repeating the word for them again. This is the DuPont Middle School ESOL teacher’s strategy for teaching her students […]
Read MoreJan. 24, 2019 – We’re sure you’ve already noticed — the way math is taught in our elementary schools doesn’t look the way it used to. When the state of Florida shifted required math standards, Duval County Public Schools initiated a big shift of its own moving students from knowing the work, to knowing […]
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