SEBRING — Highlands County teachers are learning a new way to teach reading. About 325 teachers are picking up new strategies at Hill-Gustat Middle School this week. The Florida Reading Initiative is "providing us not just philosophy and theory, but taking us through the steps of actually instructing quality reading," said District Director of Elementary Programs Joyce McClelland. "It's incredible; I cannot wait to implement everything that we've learned in my classroom," Park Elementary fourth-grade teacher Scott King said. ...more

June 17, 2008

A physical-education teacher who just finished his first year with the Hillsborough County School District was arrested Sunday on a charge of felony cocaine possession. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - A physical-education teacher who just finished his first year of employment with the Hillsborough County School District was arrested Sunday, charged with felony cocaine possession. ...more

June 16, 2008

For the first time in decades, there will be no districtwide science fair next year for local elementary school students. ...more

June 11, 2008

Teacher Marisol LaCosta read aloud to a group of kindergartners and first-graders Wednesday morning at Double Branch Elementary School. ...more

June 5, 2008

MOLINO - An elementary school teacher retiring after a 36-year career died of a heart attack moments after saying goodbye to her final class for the summer. ...more

June 1, 2008

It's the end of the school year, but the last thing Brooker Elementary School Principal Julie Lacy wants is for students and parents to think learning is done for summer. ...more

May 24, 2008

It wasn't your normal political debate. There were no timed speeches, sharp exchanges or clever attacks on character. ...more

May 21, 2008

Regarding "Teacher Thanks Little Lifesavers" (Metro, April 16): Our daughter, Shelly Copeland, a third-grade teacher at Folsom Elementary School, was able to celebrate her 33rd birthday April 17 thanks to the quick emergency responses from several groups of people in Hillsborough County. She suffered a sudden cardiac arrest March 4 in her classroom. ...more

May 10, 2008

Two elementary schools will celebrate their first years in their new buildings with dedications this weekend. ...more

May 3, 2008