Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High’s Model United Nations (UN) group attended the Miami-Dade Model UN Conference on February 21 at Miami Dade College and was awarded the Secretary General’s Award for Outstanding High School out of approximately 30 competing high schools from Miami-Dade County.  Additionally individual students were awarded in several categories, including Jessica Duque and Daniel Ramirez, Best Delegates...

    Barbara Goleman Senior High School has named English teacher, Isabel Oheida, this year’s Teacher of the Year. Oheida, a Goleman alumna herself from the Class of 1998, was born and raised in Miami and from the time she was a child, knew her passion lay in teaching. “My favorite toy was always the chalkboard,” said Oheida. “I would play for hours on end with the chalkboard and books, along with my...

  Miami-Dade County School Board unanimously approved two items proposed by Board chair Perla Tabares Hantman at its regular meeting in early January. The items endorse the addition of schools to the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program and March 2015 as Arts in Our Schools’ Month. “The District’s goal is to provide SRTS improvements for all public schools. Since 2007, the School Board has endorsed and submitted 91...

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Starlettes Danceline spent two weekends in February winning two Grand Championship titles at separate dance competitions. At the Florida Cheer and Dance Association’s South Florida Sizzler competition on February 14, the Pace Starlettes were declared the Grand Champions with the highest score of the competition while also taking first place in the Jazz Division. The very next weekend at...

  Dade Christian band students, Tianna Palmer (12th grade) and Lucas Larvenz (11th grade) performed at the University of Miami Frost Honor Band Festival and were recognized for the highest caliber of honor band accomplishments. On February 14, the two students played under world-renowned conductors alongside the most talented band students in South Florida, earning them the title of this week's extraordinary students.  Palmer has...