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Guest AuthorJuly 6, 2015

Monday, July 6, 2015 Dear Community Meeting Participant, I want to thank you for taking your valuable time a few days ago and joining us at Glades Central High School for my community outreach meeting. As I stated at the meeting, I am not coming in leading with solutions and best practices — I am […]

Guest AuthorMarch 25, 2015

The problems that Florida schools suffered when glitches halted administration of computerized state tests highlighted the intimate relationship between education and technology. I was reminded of this marriage recently when I visited a replica of a 1935 Florida classroom at the Yesteryear Village. I was suddenly transported back into the mid 60s classroom of my […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 22, 2015

When I met Edith for the first time and heard her stories about her kindergarten class, I realized that she is the poster child for what is happening in Florida education at the grass roots level. She is a slight woman in her early 30s, originally from Venezuela, an immigrant like most her students, who […]

Tag: education technology

Catherine Martinez: An open letter to Palm Beach County Superintendent Robert Avossa

Catherine Martinez: Schools vault from chalk dust to technology marvels

Catherine Martinez: Welcome to the Common Core kindergarten