Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Skip to main content

Education Archive

Jan 2, 2023

‘The Avalon Thing’: Teacher of year says school is like family at Avalon Middle

Many schools talk about being a family of students and staff. But at Avalon Middle School, they truly are. Danita Johnson, Avalon Middle’s teacher of the year, sees herself as a member of that family. Johnson, who has taught in both Florida and Kentucky, has spent the past 30 years as both a teacher and an administrator.
Dec 20, 2022

Dixon Intermediate teacher of year adds more than math skills

Dawn Poggi’s peers picked her to be S.S. Dixon Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year but, as important and impressive as that honor might be, it doesn’t quite capture everything she does for the Patriots.
Dec 13, 2022

Students’ success feeds inclusion teacher’s passion

April Hobbs is right where she needs to be. The East Milton Elementary School Teacher of the Year was born and raised in Milton, an alumna of Milton High School and the University of West Florida and, for the past nine years, a teacher at East Milton Elementary.
Dec 6, 2022

For Charlsey Edgar, making an impact is in her blood

You may notice the rather tall ceiling when you first enter the front doors at Bennett C. Russell Elementary School in Milton. This large height fits in well with the school’s motto, “Soaring to new heights in education.”
Nov 29, 2022

Teacher of the Year: Berryhill Elementary School Children’s author helping plot students’ success

Berryhill Elementary may be the only school in Santa Rosa County that can boast a published playwright among its faculty.
Nov 11, 2022
,

It’s official: Residents pick ‘Wallace Lake’ for new K-8 school’s name

Almost 2,000 residents voted for one of four possible names for the new K-8 school being constructed at the intersection of Wallace Lake Road and Chumuckla Highway. Wallace Lake was the overwhelming winner, with 1,301 total votes.
Nov 8, 2022

Teaching is the right fit for Milton High’s Randy Parazine

Randy Parazine is going over instructions on a Wednesday morning in early November on how to make a sales pitch. The lesson is for the students in his entrepreneurship class at Milton High. He’s in the environment he was always destined to be in. The classroom. He originally got away from that dream when he was younger.
Oct 21, 2022

Santa Rosa announces Teachers of the Year

Santa Rosa Education Foundation is pleased to announce the thirty-five nominees for Santa Rosa Teacher of the Year.  Nominees were selected by their peers at schools throughout the district.
Oct 18, 2022

BioTech Academy at Pace takes science to another level

White coat? Check. Lab equipment? All set. Copper Sulfate and Sodium Hydroxide? We got it.

It’s a back-to-school-day of sorts for a reporter as he steps into the BioTech Academy lab at Pace High School. Students in the high-level science program have a lab ready for their classroom visitor to perform.

Oct 11, 2022
,

Foster Grandparent Program returns to Santa Rosa County

If you were lucky enough to have your grandparents in your life, you probably remember them teaching you things or just being there for you as you grew up.

That model of helping to raise kids is being translated to area schools in the form of the foster grandparent program.

error: Content is protected !!