Science teacher Janice Robbins made the most of the calm before students arrived last week by stringing shiny red streamers between columns to welcome children to the new Smith Middle School. ...more

August 27, 2008

Science teacher Janice Robbins made the most of the calm before students arrived last week by stringing shiny red streamers between columns to welcome children to the new Smith Middle School. ...more

August 27, 2008

Most middle school science lessons don't involve trying to keep a robot from crashing into empty, inverted water bottles. ...more

August 5, 2008

New teacher pool boasts those who have been around the block. ...more

August 5, 2008

Local parents can rest assured that their children are getting teachers with plenty of real-life experience. ...more

August 5, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The scene: The lobby outside the Berkeley Preparatory School auditorium. Crime scene tape forms a square around an empty picture frame, toppled wineglasses, footprints and a mysterious telephone number. ...more

July 7, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The scene: The lobby outside the Berkeley Preparatory School auditorium. Crime scene tape forms a square around an empty picture frame, toppled wineglasses, footprints and a mysterious telephone number. ...more

July 5, 2008

AVON PARK — An Avon Park High School teacher has been suspended without pay for an undisclosed incident, which is being investigated by the school district and a state education bureau. Science teacher John Altic's five-day suspension from May 21-27 was formally approved by the School Board of Highlands County on Tuesday. Altic was suspended because of an incident, which is currently under investigation, that occurred May 16 at Avon Park High School, Human Resources Director Vivianne Waldron said. Since this is an active investigation no more information can be released, she added. Altic, 63, was suspended for five days because that is the maximum length of time the superintendent can suspend a teacher without input from the school board, Waldron said. A disciplinary letter has been placed in his personnel file. ...more

June 13, 2008

When Nature Coast Technical High School senior Sarah Kidder, 17, walked into the media center at her school Friday and saw her mom with a video camera, she didn't think much of it. ...more

May 24, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Middle School sixth-grader Tyler Carr played the part of of a batting machine to answer a scientific question – does a baseball travel farther when hit with a wooden or an aluminum bat? For his science project experiment, Carr tried to make a batting machine with the help of his baseball coach, but the cost and a design problem thwarted it. ...more

May 12, 2008