Blizzard at the Beach at MacArthur Beach State Park To Benefit Education Programs
MacArthur Beach State Park is hosting an exciting event called Blizzard at the Beach to benefit the education programs at the Pew Family Natural Science Education Center which is due to open in April, 2011. Blizzard at the Beach will take place at MacArthur Beach State Park on December 5, 2010 from 11:00 am to [...]
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Independence Middle School Donates Items For Food For Families
For the second year in a row, The National Junior Honor Society and The Student Council at Independence Middle School held a school wide drive to collect non-perishable items for Channel 5’s Food For Families. The teachers and students at Independence Middle collected an astonishing 2800 items this year. Together with last year’s total the [...]
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School District Recognizes World AIDS Awareness Day
The first week of December is nationally recognized as World AIDS Awareness Week and December 1st is known as World AIDS Day. The School District of Palm Beach County is participating in remembering this event through the reading of a passage to students and staff. All Palm Beach County schools are encouraged to read the [...]
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Shaquille O’Neal’s Mother At Atlantic High For A Little Bit Of Book And A Little Bit Of TALK
Atlantic Community High School is no stranger to book talks or guest authors. On Friday, December 3 at 2:00 p.m., Lucille O’Neal, will join the list of authors who have visited the school to speak to students about the value of reading. In her book, “Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go”, O’Neal chronicles her [...]
Random Student Drug Testing Reveals Good News
The findings from pre and post surveys conducted in 2010 at participating high schools are in and the evaluation has been completed by Chris Ringwalt of Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE). Anonymous pretests and post-test surveys were conducted of all 9th through 12th grade students who played baseball and softball as a school-organized [...]
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Jerry Thomas Elementary Honors Veterans
Jerry Thomas Elementary held a memorable and moving Veterans Day program on November 11th to honor our men and women in uniform. All the students and staff gathered in the bus loop to bear witness to the presentation of a flag that was flown over Syverson Base, Headquarters of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task [...]
Significant Improvement In Black Student Graduation Rate Narrows the Gap
New graduation rate data released by the state now shows that Black students in the Palm Beach County School District have narrowed the graduation rate gap by a statistically significant degree. Superintendent Art Johnson and district research staff say this degree of gap narrowing is evidence that increased awareness by teachers, students, parents and the community [...]
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Egret Lake Elementary Hosts 2nd Annual Arts Festival
Egret Lake Elementary School will be hosting its Second Annual Arts Integration Festival where student, parents, teachers and community members will have the opportunity to see how teachers are utilizing arts integration strategies to teach the core curriculum. When? December 9, 2010 – 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Where? Egret Lake Elementary School – 5115 47th Place [...]
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Forest Hill High Announces Pathfinder Nominees
Forest Hill Community High School is pleased to announce their nominees for the 2010-2011 Pathfinders Awards sponsored annually by the Palm Beach Post newspaper. Nominees and their categories are: • Academic Excellence – Cynthia Liu • Art – Maria Olea • Business – Nicole Grace • Communications – Carlin Littles • Community Involvement – Taylor [...]
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School District of Palm Beach County Fights Underage Drinking with a New Contest
Student Intervention Services in the Department of Safe Schools developed Project SMART which addresses the issues of underage drinking in Palm Beach County schools. The program implements a comprehensive strategic plan involving teens, parents, schools, and the community. To continue their mission, Project SMART has partnered with the Acreage Loxahatchee Rotary Club to present the [...]
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Miami Children’s Hospital, The School District of Palm Beach County, and HealthTeacher Partner To Teach Kids Health Literacy
Miami Children’s Hospital, in partnership with The School District of Palm Beach County and HealthTeacher, announced that approximately 12,443 kindergarten through high school teachers in The School District of Palm Beach County will have access to HealthTeacher’s comprehensive on-line health education curriculum and resources with the goal of improving the health literacy of students in [...]
Fifth Future Author Book To Be Unveiled At December 2 Signing
In second grade Alexandra Zofcin fell in love with writing. She wrote a fairy tale and hasn’t stopped creating stories since. Now a 9th grader at Olympic Heights High School in Boca Raton, she is anxious to become one of 55 new published authors when the book, If Writing Were Easy, This Book Would Be [...]
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Village Academy Students To Get Guidance From Career Professionals During Career Day Event
More than 50 career professionals are expected to share a piece of their lives with students at Village Academy on December 1, 2010. The Inaugural Career Day will be from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. in the gymnasium and courtyard. Grades K-12 will participate in the events scheduled for that day. “We want to make [...]
Mark Your Calendar for Park Vista’s Annual Auto Show
If you like cars, don’t miss Park Vista High Schools upcoming Auto Show! Hundreds of European and domestic classic, vintage, modern, and antique cars will be on display at the school’s fourth annual auto show Saturday, December 11, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. The show, scheduled for the school’s campus, will include trucks, luxury cars, electric cars [...]
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The 54th Annual Palm Beach County Science and Engineering Fair is Right Around the Corner!
Students all over Palm Beach County are planning and preparing their projects for the upcoming 54th Annual Palm Beach County Science and Engineering Fair. School fairs are being held and county regional selections are being made by individual schools in anticipation of the largest academic event held in Palm Beach County each year. Secondary Science [...]
Royal Palm Beach High School Sells Christmas Trees
Royal Palm Beach Community High School’s student council is having a Christmas Tree Fundraiser. They will be selling the Christmas Trees from November 26th through December 19, 2010. The grand opening of the Christmas Trees Tent will be on Black Friday, November 26, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The regular schedule will be [...]
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Culinary Arts Academy Students From Boynton Beach Community High School Take The Trophy At the 2nd Annual Dessert Cup Competition
On November 19th, the students of the Culinary Arts Academy at Boynton Beach Community High School won 1st Place in the Second Annual Dessert Cup Competition to take home the trophy at the PBSCD Employee Appreciation BBQ Luncheon at the Palm Beach School District Facilities Offices in West Palm Beach. The competition was judged by [...]
Partnership To Teach Students Health Literacy To Be Announced
Miami Children’s Hospital is partnering with HealthTeacher and The School District of Palm Beach County to offer innovative online health education curriculum that teaches students how to develop healthy lifestyle habits. WHAT: Press conference to announce Miami Children’s Hospital’s gift of health education to over 171,000 students in Palm Beach County Miami Children’s Hospital [...]
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Graduation And Suspension Reduction Task Force To Meet
The next Graduation and Suspension Reduction Task Force meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm in the Board Room at the Fulton-Holland Educational Services Center. This is a working session for Action Teams to continue working on their preliminary outlines which are due by December 7, 2010. At this [...]
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“Dare To Be Amazing” Shared with Roosevelt Middle School Students
Miss South Florida, Courtney McKenzie, recently spoke to the female students at Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach. Told that she wasn’t pretty enough to compete in pageants, not smart enough to go to college, not intelligent enough to own a business, Ms. McKenzie overcame all the nay sayers by winning three pageant titles, [...]
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Cholee Lake Elementary Invites You to the Carousel Ride
Cholee Lake Elementary School is partnering with Downtown at the Gardens Shopping Center to collect funds for the school. Everyone is invited to the Carousel Rides at low cost of $2 per ride. When? Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Where? Downtown at the Gardens – 11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave. Palm [...]
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West Boca Raton High Earns 3rd National Career Academy Model
After an extensive evaluation process conducted by the National Career Academy Coalition (NCAC), West Boca Raton Community High School’s Academy of Drafting and Design has been named a “National Model Academy.” West Boca High Principal Mark L. Stenner commended the Drafting and Design Academy Team: Assistant Principal Jack Clutter, Academy Coordinator Susan Bantang, Drafting Instructor [...]
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Palm Beach County Educators and Programs Spotlighted At National Career Academy Coalition’s 14th Annual Conference
At the recent National Career Academy Coalition Conference held November 8-10, 2010, Palm Beach County was well represented with presentations by Arty Falk and Sherri Renner from Palm Beach Gardens High School. They shared the successful projects they have used in their award winning, five star Magnet Program which includes Sports Management, Tourism and Hospitality and [...]
Fall Family Forum To Target Issues Of Bullying For Parents Of Children With Disabilities
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM at the Santaluces Community High School Theater, the ESE Advisory Committee and the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Department of the School District of Palm Beach County invite the public to the Fall Family Forum & Resource Fair. The event will focus on prevention and [...]
South Tech Academy Teacher Honored As Educator of Distinction
Jessica Ehring, a Science instructor at South Tech Academy, is honored as an Educator of Distinction from The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS). She was nominated by Deon Ellison, a Senior Honors student at South Tech Academy and member of the NSHSS. Ellison says, “I chose Mrs. Ehring as one of my best [...]
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