Teacher of the Year: Julianne Robbins, Bagdad Elementary School
A stubborn strand of long, black hair kept falling across Julianne Robbins’ face, but she didn’t seem to notice.
“Who can tell me what this is?” she asks, holding up a tiny toy chair. Most of the first graders kneeling around her raise their hands, but not one blurts the answer.
Board to discuss new school zone
The Santa Rosa County School Board is scheduled to discuss the new Wallace Lake K-8 School’s attendance zone at a workshop scheduled at 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at 5086 Canal Street in Milton.
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.
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.
Coffee connection: Central School library offers more than books
Every morning before school at Central, students file into the library. Some are there for books, but most are there for a fresh brew to start off their day.
Coffee has become an important part of societal norms around the globe. Coffee houses and cafes are gathering spots for the young, the old, and everyone in between. And at Central School, coffee plays an important role in bringing the school together.
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.
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.
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.
On the farm: LEAD Academy teaches everything agriculture
When you go to LEAD Academy off Chumuckla Highway, you might hear teachers teaching arithmetic, children talking and playing, and… cows mooing?
Not too many schools have a barn, but LEAD Academy is not your typical school. Founded in 2013, LEAD Academy is a private, Christian academy that teaches things such as grammar, logic, and rhetoric. On top of those, they also have an agriculture program.
Broadcast classrooms connect students, educators
When you walk into Dan Schmitt’s classroom at Holley Navarre Middle School, you immediately notice the rather large screens that dot the front portion of the room.
These screens are not meant to show movies or videos, but to help connect students dozens of miles away.


















