Plumosa School Of The Arts Students Win FAAE 2012 Digital Media Arts Challenge
The Florida Alliance for Arts Education (FAAE), a state wide organization whose mission is to improve, enhance and promote arts education announced the winners of the 2012 Digital Media Challenge. Students from Plumosa School of the Arts in Delray Beach won first place in two out of the three categories in the Elementary School challenge. Vincent Cordero, 5th grade, won the 2D [...]
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School Board Opposes High Stakes Testing, Resolution Asks State, Governments To Improve Accountability Programs
The Palm Beach County School Board has adopted a resolution that opposes what it calls the over-reliance on high-stakes standardized tests, such as the FCAT. The resolution requests that the state reexamine its public school accountability system and develop a new system that does not rely as heavily on extensive standardized testing. It requests that multiple forms of assessment be used to guide [...]
Gifted Teacher Tops In The State
Karen Simmons, a third grade teacher at Beacon Cove Intermediate School in Jupiter, was awarded top honors at the recent Florida Association for the Gifted Conference. Ms. Simmons, who has been teaching the past 14 years in gifted education, was given the prestigious “Excellence in Creative Teaching Award.” Recommendation letters from principals, parents and former [...]
From Bolshoi To Bak, Professionals Give Master Classes At Arts School
Paul Boos, Repetiteur of the Balanchine Trust, and Michael Trusnovec, a principal dancer with Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York will both be at Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach this month. May 14, 15, 21, 22: Paul Boos will spend four days at Bak Middle School of the Arts [...]
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U. B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts Wins Lighthouse ArtCenter Awards
The Lighthouse ArtCenter Art Gallery located in Tequesta is featuring their 42nd Annual Kindergarten to 12th grade Community Student Exhibition from May 2 through May 23, 2012. Art teachers from local schools submit the best student art work from the past school year to exhibit in this beautiful exhibition. An arts awards reception was recently [...]
Benoist Farms Elementary Fundraises to Help School in Central America
More than 1.1 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water; this is one of the reasons why Benoist Farms Elementary is raising money to help a school in Nicaragua with no running water. The school set the goal to collect $750 to purchase a hand washing station for the school. The [...]
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