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Students get a little extra motivation from a “Super [...]

The Gulfshore Playhouse Theatre Education Project teams up with Golden Terrace Elementary to provide an innovative educational program for nearly150 [...]

Last month was “Bush month” here in our little corner of the world. “Bush 43” (George W.) and brother Jeb grabbed the Naples Town Hall Series [...]

Senate Bill 6, which is co-sponsored by Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, would require school districts to adopt performance pay models for their teachers. [...]

Excitement ensues as the Barron Collier High drama team returns victorious from the International Thespian Society District 6 Competition, and begins preparations to represent our area in the state competition in [...]

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You may have heard that our school district has two new National Board Certified Teachers [...]

Every night before Patricia Verder went to sleep, the 5-year-old asked her mother, Brandi, how many more days until her father came home from Iraq. “It was very hard – on all of us,” Brandi Verder [...]

They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Not sure who “they” are but I’m guessing they are right. I know I do better once I’ve had my bowl of cereal. Same, of course, holds true for our students – your [...]

As Americans across the country rushed to assist earthquake victims in Haiti, last month, Golden Gate High School students and faculty joined forces on the school track, raising $1,100 in relief [...]

Ever since I was a kid (many moons ago) I’ve heard about the “3 R’s” – reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic, the alliteration of course of reading, writing, and arithmetic. So much for spelling, huh? The 3 R’s have long been considered to be the fundamentals of a good elementary [...]

For the past nine years, Gulf Coast High School has celebrated the diversity of students and staff with its annual International Festival. This year’s eventswill take place at 9:45 and 11:20 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the school auditorium. [...]

Florida is ranked eighth in the nation for K-12 public education! I’m guessing you haven’t seen or heard that since the annual Quality Counts report recently issued by the Education Week publication drew little, if any, media [...]

Collier County Public School students in grades 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 will be sharpening their No. 2 pencils in preparation for the Collier Writes test, Feb. [...]

The Holocaust has inspired a number of specialized classroom activities and consumer science teacher Sandy Brock has brought the concept to a new level at Pine Ridge Middle School. Brock, who has been teaching for 24 years, says she got the idea of incorporating a cooking unit tied to the era while visiting the Holocaust [...]

The district’s Web site has a fresh, new look. If you haven’t been on the site recently, you might want to check it out at collierschools.com. As of the first of the year, the district’s Webmaster is in our office at the Communications Services [...]

School was back in session at Naples First Baptist Academy High School this month, but the daily schedule was anything but routine. During the month of January, the school’s 96 high school students took part in a unique, in- depth study opportunity called “J-Term.” [...]

Earlier this month, I shared some first semester school highlights with you, hoping to give you a little bit of insight into what’s happening on our campuses. With the second semester just getting underway, here are a few more highlights from more of our [...]