Students Clash In Battle Of The Books, 1,770 Compete In Unique Reading Contest
2013 marks the fifth year of the School District’s Battle of the Books competition. Six teams recently competed to be crowned champions of the Grand Battle of the Books. Competitors in the grade 3-5 category were Team BOB from Palm Beach Public Elementary, sponsored by Cheryl May and the Ninja Wallabies from Limestone Creek Elementary, [...]
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Local Educator Selected As One of 24 Expert Educators Worldwide
Roosevelt Middle School Magnet Coordinator, Todd LaVogue, was selected as one of 24 Expert Educators worldwide by the Microsoft Corporation. The announcement was made at the School District of Palm Beach County Technology Conference, February 19, with Microsoft’s United States Director of Education, Andrew Ko, in attendance. Mr. LaVogue, who placed third in the world [...]
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For Third Consecutive Year, Roosevelt Middle School Named National Magnet School of Distinction
Roosevelt Middle School has been named a 2013 National Magnet School of Distinction by Magnet Schools of America (MSA), the National Association for Magnet and Theme-Based Schools. Roosevelt Middle is the only school in Palm Beach County to receive this honor. “This is a result of the dedication and hard work by the students, teachers [...]
Roosevelt Middle Students Learn Real-World Applications For Engineering
In celebration of National Engineering Week, February 18-22, over 30 engineers from Lockheed Martin visited the pre-engineering magnet students at Roosevelt Middle School on Thursday, February 21. The engineers worked on a series of building activities with approximately 240 pre-engineering students over a five hour period. The students were divided into small work groups and [...]
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Roosevelt Middle Students Discover Sense Of Service And Responsibility With Letter Writing Campaign
For the fourth consecutive year, students from Roosevelt Middle School participated in Amnesty International’s “Write a Letter, Save a Life” letter writing campaign to free political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. Students in Roosevelt Middle’s Big Brothers Big Sisters program directed their letter writing efforts to assist the following people: · The citizens of Bodo, Nigeria, [...]
Forty Roosevelt Middle Students Travel To Washington For Presidential Inauguration
Roosevelt Middle School is sending 40 students to the Presidential Inauguration. It is the only public school in Palm Beach County sending a group. The students and chaperones will fly to Washington D.C. Saturday morning, January 19 and return Monday night, January 21. While in Washington D.C., the group will visit museums and have a [...]
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Educator’s Innovative Teaching Showcased On World Stage-Takes Third Place At Learning Global Forum In Prague
Under his guidance, Todd LaVogue’s students created a TV show about ancient Egypt to gain a deeper understanding of life during that time. The Roosevelt Middle School students used Word, Internet Explorer and video editing software to research and create a “TODAY”- style news program with news, weather, sports, cooking, lifestyle, history and music segments. [...]
Palm Beach County Big Winner In State Student Media Festival
Five Palm Beach County schools were winners at the Jim Harbin Student Media Festival. The schools were honored at an awards ceremony at the FAME Annual Conference in Orlando. FAME is the professional organization of Florida Media Specialists who encourage students to communicate through media production. This was the 50th Celebration of the Festival named in honor [...]
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Five Palm Beach County Schools Take Top Honors In Educational Media Festival
Lights, camera, action and students from five Palm Beach County Schools have taken top honors in a statewide educational media festival. The Jim Harbin Student Media Festival is a student media festival to recognize the excellent work being done across the state of Florida by student media producers. The Florida Association for Media in Education [...]
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Roosevelt Middle’s Premier Magnet Programs Depicted In Mural
Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach cordially invites community members to attend a mural signing event, “Discover Roosevelt,” with Artist-in-Residence, Sharon Koskoff, Friday, October 5, 2012, at 9:30am. Ms. Koskoff guided dozens of student artists throughout the summer to complete this enormous mural depicting Roosevelt Middle’s four premier magnet programs. Roosevelt Middle is an [...]
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Educator Selected To Attend Global Forum, Recognized By National And State Leaders
Todd LaVogue, Magnet Coordinator at Roosevelt Community Middle School was recently selected by the Microsoft Corporation as one of the 16 national winners of the Partners in Learning U.S. Forum. The annual event recognizes innovative teachers and school leaders who creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way kids learn [...]
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Roosevelt Middle School Teacher Selected as Innovative Educator by Microsoft
Todd LaVogue, Magnet Coordinator at Roosevelt Community Middle School was recently selected by the Microsoft Corporation as one of the 16 national winners of the Partners in Learning U.S. Forum. The annual event recognizes innovative teachers and school leaders who creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way kids learn [...]
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Four Teachers Chosen As Finalists To Compete At Microsoft Forum-Will Be Honored For Innovative Use Of Technology In Classroom
As a result of winning the Innovative Educator Contest which was hosted during the Palm Beach County School District’s 14th annual technology conference, four Palm Beach County School District teachers have been selected by the district’s Department of Educational Technology and a select panel of judges, to participate in the Microsoft Corporation’s Partners in Learning [...]
Roosevelt Middle School Students Excel at State Math and Word Wizard Events
Prowess in math earned another Math trophy for Roosevelt Middle School. Placing 3rd in the 27th Annual Math Brain Bowl state competition for grades 6-8, Apoorva Ravichandran (captain), Shivang Jadvani, Alison Austria, and Marcus Sutton were excited that their teamwork in answering the problems resulted in a win. Caelethia Clemons, 2011 Math Teacher of the [...]
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Roosevelt Middle Students Win Battle Of The Books For Third Time
Roosevelt Middle School has done it again. Platform 9 3/4 (a Harry Potter reference) won the Grand Battle of the Books hosted at The Education Network on Friday, February 24, 2012. This is the 3rd year in a row that Roosevelt Middle has won the district competition in the middle school category and the 4th [...]
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Roosevelt Middle Pre-Engineering Students Tour Lockheed Martin
To celebrate Engineers’ Week, February 20-24, 2012, over 160 students in the Pre-Engineering program at Roosevelt Middle School toured the Lockheed Martin facilities located on the water in Riviera Beach. Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 123,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, [...]
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Media Advocacy Training About Tobacco Prevention for Palm Beach County Students
Students from 13 counties across South Florida will be in attendance to learn how to speak to the media and use it to get their tobacco prevention message out on March 17, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Beach County Health Department’s Headquarters located at 800 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL. The training [...]
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Suncoast High And Roosevelt Middle Recognized As 2012 Magnet Schools Of Merit
The Department of Choice and Career Options is happy to announce that Suncoast Community High School and Roosevelt Middle School have been recognized as 2012 Magnet Schools of Merit by Magnet Schools of America. Suncoast High, one of 50 Magnet Schools of Excellence in the United States for 2012, has Dr. Linda Cartlidge as Principal [...]
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Roosevelt Middle Student Semi-Finalist In Poster Contest
Vandi Allen, a 7th grader in the pre-engineering Choice program at Roosevelt Middle School, was a semi-finalist in the School District’s Alcohol Prevention Poster Contest. His entry was judged to be one of the five best in the county, selected from over 750 entries submitted from schools throughout the Palm Beach School District. Vandi designed [...]
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Roosevelt Middle School Student Films To Showcase At “Clematis By Night”
Subject-related videos made by students at Roosevelt Middle School will be showcased at Clematis by Night, a free event on Thursday, December 8, 2011 near the West Palm Beach waterfront. The videos will air continuously from 6 pm until 9 pm. Seventh graders from Ciara Kaufmann’s Civics class will debut a stop-action video entitled, “How [...]
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Roosevelt Middle School Holds Open House To Introduce Prospective Students to Magnet Programs
Are you strong in Math, Science, and Technology? These academic areas are applied in all four magnet choices at Roosevelt Middle Magnet School. Come visit the “A” school and speak with outstanding teachers about their programs in Environmental Science, Pre Medicine, Pre Engineering, and Technology. Science Fair projects will be featured along with classroom projects [...]
Roosevelt Middle Students’ Letter Writing Campaign Brings 2nd Response
Two years ago students from Todd LaVogue’s sixth grade World History class at Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach participated in Amnesty International’s “Write a Letter, Save a Life” letter writing campaign to free prisoners of conscience. Students were provided a list of names with information about the prisoners. They chose three people: Reginald [...]
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Roosevelt Middle School Sixth Graders Are Published Authors
Two sixth grade students from Roosevelt Middle School in West Palm Beach became published authors this summer. Lugenie Raymond published a 56-page book of original poetry entitled, “It’s My Turn: A Collection of Poetry by Lugenie Raymond.” Ashley Concepcion published a 30-page book of ancient history short stories entitled, “Around the World Stories.” Lugenie and [...]
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New Principal Gets Big Surprise
What a welcome! Jo Anne Rogers, newly appointed principal of Roosevelt Middle School, did not realize that she would have a BIG check in her hands in less than two weeks on the job! Steve Rodrigues, Chief Engineer of Lockheed Martin, MS 2 recently presented a check for the Pre Engineering choice program. Mr. Rodrigues [...]
Incredible, Outstanding, Exuberant Roosevelt Middle School Teacher To Receive $500 Award
Todd LaVogue, social studies teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, will be receiving a huge check on Thursday, May 26 at 10 a.m. The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) will be presenting this larger than life-size check for $500 to Mr. LaVogue as a recipient of its Excellence in Teaching Award. With over 2300 essays received, [...]
