Barbara Goleman High School cheerleaders, along with students, faculty, staff and administration, all wore pink in October to continue raising awareness for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness month took place in October.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools board chair Perla Tabares Hantman (center), is joined by Barbara Goleman High School principal Joaquin Hernandez and Goleman students, who along with other participating Miami-Dade teen drivers, took the national “No Texting While Driving” pledge recently. The event is part of Hantman’s long-standing safety campaign to bring awareness to the dangers of risky driving behaviors, including text...

      Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Miami Dade County Public Schools, has participated in “Coffee and Conversation” events across the county in locations such as the Adrienne Arsht Center, Betty T. Ferguson Center, and many others, the latest of which took place last month in the heart of Miami Lakes at the Main Street Playhouse.Carvalho spoke from the Black Box Theatre’s stage toward the audience, a...

Pace High School theology teacher Nelson Bonet received the 2016 Cervantes Educator of the Year Award at a ceremony at Nova Southeastern University on October 25. The award comes after Bonet was chosen as Pace’s Teacher of the Year back in August. Bonet has taught theology at Pace for nearly a decade, but his contribution to the school goes even further than in the classroom. For the past several years, Bonet has lead the Tons of Love...

More than 160 students from high schools throughout the Miami-Dade County Public School District engaged with expert panelists during the bi-annual social media journalism forum. Chief Communications officer Daisy Gonzalez Diego moderated the forum, asking questions and leading an interactive discussion about responsible journalism in an era of instant communication. Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho also spoke to the...