Celita Cabrera, department chair of Foreign Languages and Spanish teacher at Monsignor Edward Pace Senior High School, is often visited by students, including those that are not her own. Cabrera is famous, among other things, for her "cafecito," a Cuban style expresso, an aroma that leads students to line up outside her door. Cabrera, who has cleverly used her cafecito as an unconventional teaching tool, requesting that students who would...

  Spanish Lake Elementary students are celebrating and honoring a variety of events for the month of February. In addition to American History Month, Black History Month and Valentine's Day, SLE is hosting ongoing parent workshops, a family garden evening, and honoring military heroes. The family garden aims to further educate the SLE family on the values of nutritional edible gardening. Attending families will be able to taste a...

  American Senior High School walked away with two awards in the Southeastern Consortium for Mathematics and Science Engineering (SECME) and Advanced Academic Programs for Science, Technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competition that provides opportunities for students, educators and parents to engage in STEM activities with local colleges, universities and engineering partners. Gloria Chyr recently won first place in the...

Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced in early February that Miami-Dade County took a giant leap towards the digital transformation of the school district and a 1:1 digital initiative, launching a rollout of 100,000 HP and Lenovo Windows 8 devices. Additionally, more than 10,000 interactive boards will be added to classrooms across the district.  Carvalho made the announcement at the Microsoft YouthSpark Connection panel...

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School hosted Career Day on February 6. Students from 9th through 12th grades had the opportunity to speak with 75 professionals from various career paths, and the school enjoyed a motivational session with Hector Picar, an engineer who, due to a serious accident, is now a double amputee working with engineering equipment for people with physical impairments such as his own. Throughout the day, students were...