July 2, 2019 – “As an educator, every single day, you will encounter a mental health illness in your students.” This is a truth that Katrina Taylor, School Behavioral Health Dire...
June 28, 2019 – Duval County Public Schools improved student proficiency rates in a majority of tested categories according to Florida Department of Education test results releas...
Two years ago, the Duval County School Board began a public process to fix dilapidated schools, many of which have served well past their expected building lives. Duval Schools Su...
June 25, 2019 – In 2009 and 2010, the State of Florida cut the funding school districts received for renovation, maintenance and new building construction. Because Duval has the ...
May 23, 2019 – Before math, before language arts and before science, students in Emma Dubinsky’s kindergarten class get their day started by sharing words of encouragement with e...
May 21, 2019 – Reading and Math Florida Standards Assessments, Geometry End of Course Exams, AP Biology Exams and IB Spanish II Exams. As they take final exams for their courses, ...
Video link Breathe “peace” in. Breathe “peace” out. Now, take in a big breath. Breathe out slowly. Notice How you feel. May 21, 2019 – Above is an example of an exercise do...
May 16, 2019 – In Duval County Public Schools alone, 127 different languages are spoken – the most common being Spanish, Arabic, Burmese Myanmasa, Haitian-Creole, Vietnamese and ...
May 10, 2019 – It was always clear that attending college would be in the future for Robert E. Lee High School seniors Isaiah Shabazz and Keith Price Jr. “In my household, it w...
March 18, 2019 – The Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) can be nerve-racking for a lot of students. Here are some tips from our department heads, Brandie Barry and Shawn Wigg, to...
March 8, 2019 – Students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and Robert E. Lee High School are positively impacting their campuses by taking the lead in addressing mental heal...
Feb. 22, 2019 – Students at Ribault High School are giving back to their community members in dollars and cents. Through a four-week training program available to student...
Link to video Feb. 5, 2019 – They engineer robots, they complete NASA-inspired tasks, they talk with physical therapists about spine expansion in space, and…then they go to rec...
Feb. 4, 2019 – “I always wanted to be a teacher,” said Sarah Pasion, Teacher of the Year finalist. “It’s my destiny.” The fourth-grade math teacher’s desire to be an educ...
Jan. 31, 2019 – Graham Glasheen calmly walked up to the microphone after being asked to spell a word meaning “intended to teach.” D-I-D-A-C-T-I-C. Didactic. It ...
Jan. 28, 2019 – Rachel Duff points to a vocabulary word on the board and enunciates it slowly for her students to repeat. She does this two more times before motioning with her h...
Video Link Jan. 24, 2019 – We’re sure you’ve already noticed — the way math is taught in our elementary schools doesn’t look the way it used to. When the state of Flori...
Jan. 23, 2019 – George Pratt just got one step closer to his ultimate dream of becoming a United States senator. The Paxon School for Advanced Studies senior is one of tw...
Jan. 22, 2019 – Danisha Love, Teacher of the Year finalist and math teacher at Raines High School, says her passion for teaching started with her love for learning. “I love bein...
Jan. 10, 2019 – Everyday, we get hundreds of questions from parents and community members about the magnet and special transfer option process. Below are answers to the top six m...
