Communities In Schools Connecting With Alumni Teachers And Students
Imagine if we were all connected! The power of a network lies in its unity; together we are stronger. The Communities In Schools (CIS) alumni network has launched, and needs your help reaching out and inviting alumni to join. Based on input from alumni around the country, the Network will connect and empower alumni, and [...]
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Pro Football Standout Returns Home To Honor FCAT Scholars
Abe Elam, a safety with the Cleveland Browns, recently returned home to honor local FCAT Scholars. Mr. Elam along with The T.E.A.M. Elam (Together Everyone Achieves More with Elam) Foundation, honored outstanding FCAT scholars from John F. Kennedy Middle School: Qaim Syed, Shenaria Lozoda, Dante Maldonado, Marcus Strurgis, Shequeuara Charles and Infiniti Gibson.
These students achieved [...]
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Polished Apple Awards To Honor Teachers and Supporters of Education
DOT’s Success Academy, Inc., and the Palm Beach County Community Choice Committee are hosting the first Annual Polished Apple Awards Program. The program will take place Sunday, May 15, 2011 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Suncoast High School.
The key note speaker will be State Senator Maria P. Sachs. A number of other county [...]
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Green Schools Recognition Program Honors Palm Beach County’s Greenest Schools-Jupiter Middle School Wins Top Prize
The winners of the third annual Green Schools Recognition Program were announced at a catered luncheon held at the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties’ downtown West Palm Beach headquarters on May 4, 2011. The program’s highest honors went to Jupiter Middle School of Technology, who earned a cash award of $2,000. “We [...]
West Riviera Elementary Students Look To The Future On Career Day
Students at West Riviera Elementary School will be looking to the future when the school holds Career Day, Friday, May 13th at 8:30 AM. The Career Day will help students foster and establish long-term academic and career goals.
According to Principal Gayle Harper, “Students at West Riviera are encouraged to set future goals. Career Day is [...]
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Hundreds Of Bushes And Trees Planted By Volunteers At Jupiter Middle School
In observance of Earth Day, Jupiter Middle School volunteers organized a special day of landscaping to improve the appearance of the school grounds. Organized by the PTO and Treehuggers Club, parents and students worked together to install many new plants and trees in front of the school building.
The new landscape plan, which incorporated the school’s [...]
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Author Visits a Huge Success At Roosevelt Middle School
Roosevelt Middle School had three phenomenal authors on campus to visit with the students during the April is for Authors celebration. The visits encouraged students to read and learn to write stories. Last Wednesday, Mary Monroe, author of Miracle at Monty Middle School, Krazy White Girl and Tagger, spoke with the students in the Reading [...]
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Distinguished Judges and Attorneys To Enlighten Palm Beach Lakes High Students During Law Week
The Gerald A. Williams Law Academy at Palm Beach Lakes Community High School is celebrating Law Week 2011 May 2nd through the 6th with a week- long series of events for the students in the academy.
The highlights of the week will include a Juvenile Justice and Civil Rights Panel featuring attorneys from the Palm Beach [...]
Career Academy Students And Business Community Interact At PACE Luncheon
The People Available Committed Employed (PACE) Luncheon encourages interaction between the students of Palm Beach County and the business community. Students at this year’s luncheon on April 28, 2011, were given an opportunity to communicate with the business community leaders regarding job training, skills required, career development and wages. This dialogue assists our students in [...]
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2011 William T. Dwyer Awards Recipients Announced
The Economic Council of Palm Beach County, Inc. and the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County, Inc. are pleased to announce the 2011 William T. Dwyer Awards for Excellence in Education.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION – Presented by BankAtlantic
Sharon Patelsky – Everglades Elementary
MIDDLE SCHOOL – Presented by The Palm Beach Post
Crystal Varnadore – Roosevelt Middle
SENIOR HIGH – Presented [...]
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Palm Beach County Students Passionate And Articulate At White House Youth Roundtable
Student Government Association student officers from around Palm Beach County and students from Lynn University participated in a roundtable discussion at Palm Beach Central Community High School Tuesday, April 26, 2011. After President Obama announced that he was tasking his administration with participating in 100 Youth Roundtables all over the country, Palm Beach County students [...]
Two Jupiter High School Seniors Among Scholastic Achievement Foundation Scholarship Recipients
The Scholastic Achievement Foundation of Palm Beach County awarded $1,000 college scholarships to two Jupiter High School students recently. The students, Lindsey Minahan and Kaitlyn Larkin are two of 29 scholarship recipients selected from the 171 outstanding high school seniors in attendance at the foundation’s 33rd Annual Student Recognition Dinner held at The Breakers, Palm [...]
Esteemed Artist Donates Time, Talent And Resources For School Mural Of The Everglades
If you’ve ever visited the Media Center at North Grade Elementary School, then you’ve likely admired the fabulous mural of the Lake Worth pier, beach, and ocean. It has adorned two walls of the library since 2003. The esteemed artist, Mr. John Becker, started that project in November of 2002 and, after hundreds of hours [...]
Recycling Containers Now Student Works Of Art
In one of the many celebrations of Earth Day (April 22), the School District partnered with its new recycling vendor, Southern Waste Systems (SWS), to provide seven teams of talented, local high school students that have transformed plain recycling containers into works of art along the mile-long stretch on PGA Boulevard that makes up PGA [...]
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Northmore Elementary Students Color For Earth Day
As part of their Earth Day celebration, the students at Northmore Elementary School in West Palm Beach decorated paper grocery bags with colorful scenes of nature and “reminders” to make every day Earth Day! The grocery bags were generously donated by Publix 212 (PGA & Military Trail in Palm Beach Gardens).
After the students, who are [...]
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Students And Artists Create Masks Of Marine Life
Second grade classes at Jupiter Farms Elementary, through a unique collaborative educational partnership with The Loxahatchee River Center, author of environmentally-themed children’s books, Marianne Berkes, and Center for Creative Education, will present a performance of songs and poetry produced by students. The presentation will include a musical composition by music teacher, Kathleen Towler, based upon [...]
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Freedom Riders Exhibition Tells Powerful Civil Rights Story
“Freedom Riders,” opening at the Fulton Holland Educational Services Center on Monday, May 2, 2011 is a national traveling exhibition that tells the powerful, harrowing and inspirational civil rights story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. It will be on display at the district office from May 2-27, 2011. Organized by the [...]
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Arbor Day And Earth Day Celebration At Bak Middle School Of The Arts
In observance of Arbor Day and Earth Day, Bak Middle School of the Arts presented an annual Arbor Day celebration Thursday, April 21st at 2:15 p.m. in the main courtyard. Students from the dance, band, vocal, and strings departments performed in front of the student body. Various other students from Paula Hough’s science classes recited poems and [...]
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U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts Students’ Future Seen In ART Mirrors
The Armory Art Center, a U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts (UBK) partner, hosted “An Exhibition of Reflective Art” from the Seabranch ART League, which showcased 28 artist’s work as well as functional ART Mirrors created by each artist. There was also a special exhibition of mirrors designed by UBK students!
Each ART Mirror was [...]
