Nineteen students at Mater Academy Charter School competed at the Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) State Leadership Conference in Orlando last weekend and brought home nine gold winners, seven silver and three bronze winners. Eleven students qualified to represent Mater Academy FCCLA in the national competition at San Diego, California. They are Billy Johnston, Pamela Mulkay, Jennifer Camejo, Kimberly Valentin,...

  U.S. History teacher John Brady was recently named Bob Graham Education Center’s 2015-2016 Teacher of the Year.  In his eleventh year as a teacher at the school, Brady’s philosophy for teaching his 8th graders is for his students to know more about the subject than he did leaving middle school and high school. He feels the United States has fallen back in understanding how the American system works and how the country...

  Swift progress on the GOB program implementation continues. At its meeting of March 9, 2016, the Miami-Dade School Board approved various GOB projects with a total investment value of approximately $34.4 million. The General Obligation Bond approved overwhelmingly by the voters in 2012 is being implemented to renovate and replace schools, expand student capacity, enhance safety, and provide technology upgrades. Three of the projects...

 

Students at Bob Graham Education Center will benefit from the completion of the school’s GOB investment in replacing the playground. The younger students eagerly began using the playground as the interact during recess with their peers. 

  Most 14-year-old freshmen stepping onto a high school campus for the first time have a very different idea of love than one they will eventually understand. The only taste they’ve had of it has been through romance movies they binge watch on the weekends, where “I love you” means a kiss or a proposal.  After being at Pace for four years, I have stumbled onto a different concept of love that I personally find...