Jose Marti Mast announced its Silver Knight Award nominees for the 2018-2019 school year. The nominees include Vanessa Tascon, Art Silver Knight nominee; Luis Orozco, Science Silver Knight nominee; Hadrian Gonzalez, General Scholarship Silver Knight nominee; Israel Palencia, Athletics Silver Knight nominee and Alyssa Miguez, Social Science Silver Knight nominee. One Silver Knight and three honorable mentions in each category will be announced...

Every year Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School selects three eighth-grade students to be awarded the Independent Schools of South Florida (ISSF) Star Student Award. An ISSF Star student is an exemplary student. He/she is a student who sets an example for others to follow whether at home or school. The students chosen have excelled in one or more of the following areas: Academics, community service, citizenship, fine arts, athletics, student...

On March 13, Miami Lakes K-8 Center (MLK8) hosted its first ever Painting with Parents night. The night welcomed almost 200 students, parents, siblings and teachers through two separate hour-long sessions. MLK8 art teachers Gary Anuez and Maria Ordaz led the groups through painting their own recreations of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.” From novice painterss to experts alike, everyone had a great time creating their own masterpieces...

Summer learning loss is a phenomenon parents and educators have long acknowledged as a significant setback to academic achievement. Johns Hopkins University researchers indicate math proficiency is particularly susceptible to the summer learning slide.Students lose two to two and a half months of the math computational skills they learned during the regular school year.Experts widely agree that summer math studies provide a solution....

In many of the great myths of old, the universe is depicted as a place where chaos and order, death and life are forever locked in battle. For anyone who has paused for a moment to consider their own existence, this struggle seems to be more than a myth, it represents our daily experience. We work hard to establish order around us, only to see chaos and death tear it down.  Two millennia ago, the Apostles likewise saw their expectations...