Further tuition hikes will be needed as the Florida Legislature fights to make ends meet, says Florida Gulf Coast University President Wilson Bradshaw. Bradshaw is this week’s guest on Comcast’s “One on One with Jeff [...]
The Genocide Awareness Project, an exhibit by the Center for Bio Ethical Reform, is spending two days on display on the lawn in front of the FGCU library, engaging students in debate and seeking to change minds on the issue of [...]
Collier County public schools Superintendent Dennis Thompson insists he remains in charge of personnel issues and new School Board member Roy Terry is wrong about the role and weight of citizen advisory committees. Thompson also says he and Terry met following Terry’s sometimes challenging remarks made publicly last week. Thompson is this week’s guest on Comcast’s “One on One with Jeff [...]
Newly appointed Collier County School Board member Roy Terry says it is time for the board to take back control from Superintendent Dennis Thompson and set more policy in [...]
It takes a unique sort of patience to teach a middle school band. While many teachers strive to keep a quiet, orderly class for lessons, a band teacher’s job is to maintain a noisy class that’s also orderly.
As Antonio Castillo directs his intermediate class in Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” at Bonita Charter School one morning, he has to stop every few bars for a gentle correction. The clarinets are too forceful, or the trumpets come in too early or too late. But it’s all part of the step-by-step process required to turn a group of students with little musical experience into a [...]
It has definitely been a ‘Carol of the Bells’ these past few weeks, as Bonita Springs Middle School’s handbell choir rang in the holiday [...]
Even though we are half point of the school year, it’s still time to enroll their children in a quality music school or for adults to realize a dream of making music come true. [...]
Close your eyes, use your imagination and you’d think the thumping sounds were coming from a herd of reindeer on their annual trek across the [...]
