September Residency with The Bass Museum
This fall, learners at the Innovative School engaged in a rich partnership with The Bass Museum, exploring how art connects to place, identity, and imagination. Beginning with a virtual visit to Ugo Rondinone’s Miami Mountain, learners reflected on how public art transforms community spaces, asking questions about balance, scale, and symbolism that showed the beginnings of […]
How a Small School System Created Big Impacts in Learner-Centered Education
Check out the work we’ve done with Learner-Centered Collaborative!
Teacher Feature: Rachel Unger
Introducing Rachel Unger Rachel Unger, our beloved 4th and 5th Grade teacher, has been a Miami Beach resident since she was 2.5 years old. She graduated from Ransom Everglades High School and attended the University of Miami, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Education and earned a Master of Science in Education […]
Kennedy Space Center Overnight
This weekend I had the absolute pleasure of traveling with our Fourth and Fifth Graders and their incredible educator, Ms. Rachel Unger along with her daughter Ellie, our superstar chaperone, to Kennedy Space Center for an overnight field trip. We arrived on Friday afternoon and were given a private two-hour guided tour of the home […]
Earth Summit
On March 1, our elementary-level learners held the first annual Earth Summit Learning Exhibition. We were joined by Mayor Gelber and Commissioner Mikey Steinberg who declared March 1st as Innovative School Day and honored our school with an official Miami Beach Proclamation for our dedication to making the world a better place! The Summit was the […]
First Grade Career Day
This was an extremely fun week in the Seagrape class! We have been learning all about our community, and all of the goods, services, and jobs that help a community run smoothly. Since we were learning about community helpers, we had some actual community helpers come in and share all about their jobs! Gavi’s dad […]
Fifth for Fifth
Each school year, the passing of time always amazes me. So much has happened this year, but at the same time, how can it already be the end of another incredible year? Our elementary level celebrates its fifth year anniversary and next year we will complete our school with our first graduating fifth grade class! […]
School Garden Challenge
In conjunction with Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens, grades Pre K- Fourth Grade have entered The Fairchild Tropical Gardens School Garden Challenge. The Fairchild Challenge is an award-winning, interdisciplinary, environmental science competition designed to engage students to explore the natural world. The program has been recognized as a benchmark for exceptional STEM education and for empowering […]
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