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 […]
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 […]
In spite of Covid, Monet happened…
Please do not be too quick to dismiss this narrative, even if it has that very, unfortunately familiar, and uncomfortable word that has been the culprit of total world disruption and disturbance for the past two years. I can assure you that in this story, Covid is not the protagonist but rather a secondary character. […]
Where We Live
First graders engage in deep studies around the social studies arc “where we live.” As learners study their school neighborhood, Miami Beach, they develop many social skills, including problem solving and collaboration. In the first grade class, our students learned about the bedrock that is the foundation of their school’s neighborhood, Miami Beach. During this […]
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