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Education

  • Giving youth a voice

    Nathan Meeks wants to be a voice for the children of Florida.
    The Citrus High School freshman, 4-H and FFA member, is getting a first-hand look at state government from inside the Capitol, where he plans making that voice heard for years to come.
     

    The 14-year-old student has been actively participating in 4-H and FFA for most of his life, according to his mother, Cara.
     

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  • Leaving ‘No Child’ law

    WASHINGTON — It could be the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind.

    The goal was lofty: Get all children up to par in math and reading by 2014. But the nation isn’t getting there, and now some states are getting out.

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  • Weaving words

    Alane Ferguson needs to see it, smell it, feel it and maybe even taste it.
    And she’s not shopping for produce at the grocery store.
     

    That’s how the mystery fiction author and self-described writing doctor explains how to go about packing specific details into a story to make it more vivid for the reader.
     

    That writing tip and many more were shared with dozens of middle school students Monday at an intensive writer’s workshop and an author’s lunch in the Lecanto Middle School media center.
     

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  • A play that challenges

    LECANTO — Lecanto High School Drama Department Director Mandy Mathieu has a deep, personal connection to the production her students will soon take to the Florida State Thespian Competition in Tampa.
     

    She describes “If I were a Superhero” as a one-act production about the challenges a teenage girl experiences during a summertime babysitting job watching over an autistic boy.
     

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  • WTI offers advanced studies courses

    Happy New Year! This is the time of year when a lot of people put forth an effort to start fresh. Well, at least they tell themselves they are going to make an effort by making a number of New Year’s resolutions.
     

    For some that is as far as they get, while others follow through and really embark upon making a change in their life.
     

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  • Supporting stars

    They may not have that every-day classroom experience, but Citrus County School District support workers have the same goal — doing their best to help educate students. Support persons are custodians, mechanics, bus drivers and secretaries. Every year the district names its support person of the year and announces the winner the same night as the teacher of the year, during the Galaxy of Stars banquet. It’s Thursday evening at Citrus Hills Golf & Country Club in Citrus Hills. Here are this year’s support persons of the year from their schools or work places:

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  • Making a difference

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  • Cultivating a new culture

    INVERNESS — The fifth-grade social studies students in Barbie Anderson’s class traded in their desks and chairs in a classroom Monday for a seat on a bearskin rug on the floor of a teepee.
     

    Anderson, a Pleasant Grove Elementary School instructor, has worked in the school district for more than 30 years. She says as part of the benchmarks her students must complete by year’s end, her classes are studying Native American culture.
     

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  • Booming studies

    CRYSTAL RIVER — There are bottle rockets, and then there are bottles that become rockets.
    At the Academy of Environmental Sciences, shooting bottle rockets into the sky on a recent morning was more than just fun.
     

    It was combining air pressure with water and trying to prove Newton’s third law — for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction — using 2-liter plastic bottles.
     

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  • Cultural studies class broadens students' horizons

    INVERNESS — The classroom of Inverness Middle School teacher Steffanie Grotz turned into an eclectic mix of culture, sights, sounds and smells for several hours as her gifted students completed a project designed to make them more culturally aware.

    “Moving from Culture Shock to Culturally Aware” was implemented by Grotz to help her REACH, or gifted students, see past the confines of Citrus County.

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