School District of Palm Beach County Recognized by Sunshine State School Public Relations Association
The Sunshine State School Public Relations Association (SUNSPRA) recently announced this year’s Sunshine Medallion Award Winners. The three Palm Beach County entries receiving honors are: Paula Triana, Wellness Promotion Annual Report; David Reilly, Forest Hill High School Weekly Service Review TIPS; and Ellen Smith, Family Fun Fitness for FCAT Success at Gove Elementary. Paula Triana, [...]
District Achieves Record 7th Consecutive A Rating, Eighty Percent Of Schools Earn A or B
On June 30, 2011, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released the 2010-2011 School Accountability Reports. These reports give Florida’s A+ Plan school grades and Federal No Child Left Behind Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results. These results reflect the raising of the bar for school grades and AYP. This year, student performance was based on [...]
Award Winning Author Visits Pioneer Park Elementary
Kimberly Willis Holt, award-winning author of the Piper Reed series is visiting Pioneer Park Elementary School. The author’s presentation is part of the Summer Literacy Festival being hosted all summer long at the media center of the school. When? Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. Where? Pioneer Park Elementary – 39500 Pioneer Park Rd., [...]
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Schools With Clean Financial Audits Receive Praise From Community, Educators
Nineteen schools have been found to have clean financial records during the Fiscal Year 2010 audits of district schools. The schools have been classified “Schools With No Audit Findings.” The 2010 audits included all 174 high, middle, elementary and alternative schools. The audits are designed to ensure that school and district financial practices and procedures [...]
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Veteran Teachers Serve As Mentors To New Teachers Working In High Needs Schools
Teachers working in 35 of our highest needs schools that have recently completed their second year of teaching with the support of a New Teacher Center Mentor will be recognized by the School Board at the August 17th School Board meeting. These teachers met with their assigned full-release mentor at least 90 minutes a week [...]
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CTA, School District Reach Tentative Agreement
The Palm Beach County Classroom Teachers Association have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The tentative agreement must be ratified by teachers and subsequently adopted by the School Board before it constitutes a new contract. Under the tentative agreement: The teachers’ salary schedule is increased $500 across the board effective May 1, 2011 [...]
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Palm Beach County Schools Honored by Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Crosspointe Elmentary and Banyan Creek Elementary Schools were recently named as the Bronze National Recognition Winners from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, the Alliance recognizes 46 Florida schools for transforming their campuses into healthier place for students and staff. “This recognition represents [...]
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School District Employee Recognized By Florida Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Susan Z. Alex, Program Planner in the Department of Exceptional Student Education was recently honored at the 2011 Florida Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, held on Marco Island, FL. Mrs. Alex was the recipient of the esteemed Rhonda Work School Clinician of the Year Award in recognition of her exemplary commitment and contribution to the delivery of [...]
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Palm Beach County Students Obtain Perfect Scores on the FCAT
For Anthony Marzouca a 3rd grade student at Manatee Elementary obtaining a perfect score on the FCAT was challenging but not difficult. He is self-motivated, determined and practices his reading and writing skills everyday for at least 20 minutes. “Anthony is very good with Math, so we focus on his reading comprehension and writing skills [...]
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Molina Healthcare Of Florida Donates Art Supply Fund To Crosspointe Elementary
Molina Healthcare of Florida announced the winners of its “Draw your Teacher” contest held at Crosspointe Elementary. The event included a celebration of all of the submissions with cupcakes and Molina Healthcare beads. Third graders at the school were challenged to draw their teachers, and three selected students received gift cards to Toys“R”Us and local [...]
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Author – Michael Sterns Visits Pioneer Park Elementary
Michael Sterns, passionate and dynamic author of the Kokopelli trilogy is visiting Pioneer Park Elementary School. He is strong proponent of global and environmental responsibilities and of acceptance for diversity, he uses modern-day fables of Kokopelli to speak to young readers about these paradigms. When? Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Where? Pioneer Park [...]
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Palm Beach County Students Gain In Recent FCAT And End Of Course Exams
June 8, 2011 FY2011 ALGEBRA I END-OF-COURSE ASSESSMENT RESULTS The SDPBC and Florida had similar average T-score performance, although the SDPBC had a greater percentage of students in the highest performance category than Florida. June 6, 2011 RESULTS OF FY2011 FCAT/FCAT 2.0 READING, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE: ALL STUDENTS TESTED Overall, from FY2010 to FY2011, relative [...]
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Dreyfoos School of the Arts Dance Instructor Named Top Arts Professional
Jeffrey Satinoff, a dance instructor at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts, has just been awarded one of five 2011 Leadership Awards offered by the FAAE. Mr. Satinoff, a dance professional and a 17- year dance instructor at Dreyfoos, was selected from a field of strong candidates for Arts Professional of the Year by the [...]
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Suncoast High Graduate Wins Prestigious Student-Athlete Scholarship
Jennifer Tilton of Suncoast Community High School is the 2011 winner of the Sam Budnyk Scholar-Athlete of the Year scholarship. She will be honored at a recognition dinner later this summer. Jennifer competed against 23 other nominees and ten other finalists. Chair of the panel of judges for the Sam Budnyk Scholarship Committee, Dave McIntosh, [...]
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Suncoast High Student Shows Exceptional Talent For Mathematics
Adit Radhakrishnan will be starting his senior year at Suncoast High School this fall. Throughout his junior year, he received a number of prestigious accolades due to his outstanding performance in rigorous mathematic competitions. According to Suncoast High Principal Dr. Linda Cartlidge, “Adit is an incredibly amazing student who exhibits an exceptional talent for mathematics.” [...]
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Forest Hill High School Students Sizzle in Culminating Culinary Challenge
When community leaders—including members of the City of West Palm Beach Mayor’s Office convened recently to discuss solutions to end homelessness in Palm Beach County, they had no idea that their lunch “experience” would match the full dining service they might expect from an upscale restaurant venue. Forest Hill High School’s Chef Daniel Leavy, and [...]
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Seventh Annual Language and Culture Conference Participants Get Tips to Improve Effectiveness
As nearly 450 educators navigate key note speeches and up to 16 concurrent breakout sessions at this year’s Language and Culture Conference, a common sentiment has emerged from participants. “This is such an informative, fun, and hands-on experience,” said one. “This is my first time coming and I’ve never learned so much and gotten so [...]
Marsh Pointe Elementary Student Shines In Debate Competition Defending School Uniforms
Aihber Khan, now a 5th grader at Marsh Pointe Elementary, recently placed 2nd in a South Florida debate competition. The debate topic was “School Uniforms Should Be Eliminated” which Aihber standing proudly in her school uniform spoke against. “I was truly proud when the judges called me on the stage for the second place winner. I [...]
District Transportation Department To Conduct Glades Evacuation Drill — Plan: Safely, Quickly Move Glades Residents East In Event Of Dike Failure, Hurricane
District transportation officials will conduct a West Area Evacuation Plan Exercise beginning at 7:00 a.m., Thursday, June 9, 2011 to evaluate the Transportation Department’s ability to quickly notify, assemble, and position bus transportation and maintenance assets to evacuate people from the western communities of Palm Beach County in the event of a breach of the [...]
School District of Palm Beach County Provides Top Quality Professional Development
The School District of Palm Beach County’s Department of Professional Development hosted the second annual “Collective Inquiry Showcase” to highlight high quality professional learning practices designed and implemented by school-based professional developers throughout the school district. Representatives from Palm Beach Gardens High, Timber Trace Elementary, Hidden Oaks Elementary, Galaxy Elementary, Pioneer Park Elementary and the [...]
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Park Vista Technology Students Help Shrink the Digital Divide
Park Vista Community High School’s Information Technology Academy students wrapped up the academic year by donating 35 refurbished computers–including monitors and keyboards–to students at its sister school, Christa McAuliffe Middle. The academy students who refurbished the computers also provided hands-on instruction to those students receiving the donations. The team included Zach August, Matt Barrett, Robert [...]
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White Rose Movement Highlighted at Park Vista
Students at Park Vista High School recently commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day by highlighting the activities of the historic White Rose resistance movement from the early 1940’s. This group of courageous college students-teenagers from Germany– were the first to stir up the ranks of Hitler’s Nazis. Park Vista High School came up with an innovative and [...]
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Panther Run Elementary Appreciates Volunteers
Panther Run recently hosted their Annual Volunteer Breakfast to recognize all of those individuals that day after day help the teachers and students. Panther Run volunteers are considered part of the overall team at the school and their volunteer hours allow teachers more instructional time to assist the students. Panther Run families we were recently [...]
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Boca Raton Elementary Students Share Experience With Cosmonauts To Learn About Space And Space Exploration
On May 25, 2011, fourth grade students from Boca Raton Elementary School, a “Technology School of Choice”, participated in a 30-minute international web cast with a former Russian Cosmonaut, Dr. Oleg Atkov. He is a close family friend of the Barskaya family, whose daughter was a student at Boca Raton Elementary and who has also [...]
Liberty Park Elementary School Fifth Grader Celebrates Six Years With No Absences
Brandon Jones will be leaving a pretty special legacy when school ends this week. He will leave Liberty Park Elementary School with 6 years of perfect attendance. As significant as the perfect attendance may be for any student it’s even more so for Brandon. The committed young man has some learning challenges and is currently [...]
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