Miami Lakes resident, Lety Carvajal, an alumna from Monsignor Edward Pace Senior High School, is now the owner and head administrator of Springview Academy, a voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) center located at 18505 N.W. 75 Place in northwest Miami Dade. Though the opening of Springview Academy marks Carvajal's first business approach, she has long been a part of the Early Childhood Education field. The academy was created after a...

  Carlos F. Uz, a Miami Lakes resident and senior at Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School (HML) is one of the outstanding high school students from across the nation that will take part in a unique career development opportunity the National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF): Careers in Law & CSI. Forum sessions, held in Washington, D.C., introduce young scholars to the many challenges and career options in the legal profession and...

  Following graduation, new Monsignor Edward Pace High School alumni Brittani Garcia and Christy Piña, a Miami Lakes resident, could have relaxed and enjoyed being done with high school. Instead, they joined Pace theology teacher and Campus Minister Andres Novela on a 12-day mission to Môle-Saint-Nicolas in Haiti. The mission, which took place from June 18 through June 29, was done through Amor en Acción, the...

  Miami Lakes K-8 Center's Language Arts teacher Virnalis Arvelo celebrated the FCAT Writing scores from successful students in her classroom with a lunch at Shula’s Steak 2 on Main Street. The students pictured (from left) include Arturo Sanchez, Michael Abreu, Rebecca Lopes, Natalie Mendez, Krysten Sliwinski, Natalia Flores, Sophia Betancourt, Arvelo, Sabrina Rubinstein, Jade Noa, Ivan Demendoza, Arturo Goenaga, and Jonathan...

  The Little Patriots Preschool was not supposed to be American High School’s “best kept secret,” but it was so clandestine that it flew under the radar for 12 years. The early Childhood Education or ECE program at the school is among 12 centers in Miami-Dade Public Schools that allow high-school students who are seeking careers in child care, childhood development, teaching and psychology, to get a head start by...