Ahfachkee starts school year with improvements in virtual learning Education News Top News Top Story by Beverly Bidney - September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 2020 has been a challenging year academically. At the Ahfachkee School, students and teachers left the campus in early spring and have yet to return. The school’s industrious educators quickly and successfully switched from in-person classes to online learning. With the start of the 2020-2021 school year Aug. 31, virtual
Graduation Recap: Okeechobee High School Education by Jenna Kopec - August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Kamani Smith gets ready to instruct his classmates from Okeechobee High School’s class of 2020 to turn their tassels near the end of the graduation ceremony May 30, 2020, at the county’s Agri-Civic Center. (screenshot) Okeechobee High School celebrated the graduation of the class of 2020 in a special ceremony at
Graduation Recap: Moore Haven High School Education by Jenna Kopec - August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Jarrett Bert receives his diploma during Moore Haven High School’s graduation ceremon for the class of 2020 on June 26, 2020. (screenshot) Moore Haven High School in Glades County celebrated the class of 2020 in a private graduation ceremony on June 26 on the school’s football field. The ceremony looked a little
Working hard behind the camera puts Alycia Cypress ahead of the game Education Top News Top Story by Sallie James - July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 While covering an event for her school media, Alycia Cypress interviewed former NBA star Dwayne Wade at American Heritage School in Plantation. (Courtesy photo) She was the kid with the long black hair and huge camera lens who relentlessly prowled the sidelines of American Heritage’s sports fields as she worked to
USF course delves into Egmont Key Community Education Top News by Aaron Tommie - July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 University of South Florida instructors Dr. Brooke Hansen and Dr. Laura Harrison joined THPO Research Coordinator David Scheidecker and others on an excursion at Egmont Key. (Courtesy photo) The University of South Florida’s recently offered a month-long online course that included research from the Seminole Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO)
Hollywood honors its 2020 graduates Education Top News Top Story by Kevin Johnson - July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Hollywood Coucilman Chris Osceola shakes hands with NSU University School graduate Chandler DeMayo during a graduation appreciation event for the reservation’s 2020 graduates. The event was hosted by the Hollywood Council Office on June 18 at the Classic Gym. (Kevin Johnson photo) HOLLYWOOD — This year’s group of high school graduates
Congresswomen Haaland, Davids to be part of UNITY virtual conference Education News Top News by The Seminole Tribune - June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, left, and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk Nation, will participate in the upcoming UNITY virtual national conference that starts June 25. (Photo Rep. Haaland/Twitter) MESA, Ariz. – United National Indian Youth, Inc. (UNITY) will start its first-ever virtual national conference June 25 at 5 p.m.
Graduates receive festive recognition in Big Cypress Education Top News Top Story by Kevin Johnson - June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Ahfachkee School valedictorian Priscilla Alvarado, left, and salutatorian Leilani Gopher pose at a graduation celebration for 2020 graduates from the Big Cypress and Immokalee reservations June 9, 2020, in Big Cypress. (Kevin Johnson photo) BIG CYPRESS – It’s not often that a lengthy line of vehicles occupies a stretch of Josie
Brighton Reservation honors its 2020 graduates Education Top News by Kevin Johnson - June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 Brighton Councilman Larry Howard congratulates 2020 Okeechobee High School graduate Ozzy Osceola during a graduation appreciation event hosted by the Brighton Council Office on June 5, 2020, at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School in Brighton. (Kevin Johnson photo) BRIGHTON – The Covid-19 pandemic altered or canceled traditional spring rituals for students throughout
Students in Rome learn about the Seminole Tribe Education Top News by Kevin Johnson - June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Quenton Cypress and Carrie Dilley, first column, upper two photos, spoke about the Seminole Tribe to a class at the New School in Rome, Italy, on April 29. (Courtesy image) Kids in Rome, Italy, have more than ample opportunities to learn about history right in their own backyard with the Colosseum,