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 […]
Our Second Grade Everglades Adventure
Last Thursday, our second-grade learners, the Mangroves, journeyed to Shark Valley, a part of Everglades National Park. It was a bright and crisp morning and a beautiful day to see the beauty of the Everglades, our region’s “river of grass.” You can also follow along with our journey by watching a reel of the trip here. […]
Rainbow Cafe Project
Our innovative Kindergarten class opened their Rainbow Cafe this week. The Magnolia class started the project in September asking the question “If we were to make a movie of our lives, what would it look like”. Of course no movie is complete without popcorn which led our learners to describe memories around food. In October […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
We are on the right track!
“It does not require a great leap of imagination or profound insight to recognize that the values and visions that have driven education during the first quarter of the 20th century are reappearing with a vengeance today. We look for “best methods” as if they were independent of context; we do more testing than any […]
Chag Sameach! Happy Passover! 
Dear School Community, Chag Sameach! Happy Passover! We enjoyed sharing our school wide Haggadah Presentation with all of you. Everyone had such a great time reliving the Passover Story as our amazing team dynamically presented this ancient account. The old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” might be restated to say, “An experience is worth a thousand […]
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