Art and technology teacher Jenny O'Sullivan, right, shows students a video they made, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. at A.D.
When that happens, he said, teachers create hands-on programs that help students “not only show their understanding, but gain more depth.” The only tweaking is to comply with a Florida law requiring the student population at university-run “laboratory” schools match state demographics for race, gender and income. Because families apply to attend, parental involvement is high — an advantage Herbst and his staff concede.and some know five letters — and it is not just reading, but all subjects,” said Lauren Robinson, the elementary program’s vice principal.
Miramontes hopes the class not only piques the students’ interest in medicine, but implants knowledge needed in two years when they take the state’s eighth-grade science test.