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• How do you get kids to put down the smartphone and write? Page 15 in downtown Orlando has been helping kids put pen to paper and get their writing published for 10 years. Julia Young, the founder and executive director of Page 15, and Paul Driscoll, the educational programs director, joined Intersection to talk about the program.
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• Elementary school principals from across the nation are in Orlando this week for the National Association of Elementary School Principals conference. Education leaders are sharing ideas, trends, new strategies and innovations. Seth Daub, principal of Orange County’s Catalina Elementary School, spoke to WMFE’s Education Desk.
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• The Brevard County School Board approved Mark Mullins’ contract Tuesday. The new superintendent will start on August 11.
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• Here’s the most recent research on screens — just in time for summer, when kids are sure to have them out.
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• The Community Education Project at Stetson University provides a higher-education program at Tomoka Correctional Institution. They recently received a three-year grant of $210,000 through the Laughing Gull Foundation to extend the program. Dr. Pamela Cappas-Toro, co-director of the Community Education Project, joins us to talk about the impact the program has on the incarcerated men and what the grant will do for them.
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• Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates…and Orlando students. These days kid entrepreneurs are ditching the lemonade stand and getting more creative and business savvy with help from the Orange County library. More details from our Education Desk.
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• Also in our weekly roundup of education news, the Federal Commission on School Safety met publicly to brainstorm ideas around how to make schools safer.
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• This year is the 12th year a summer camp aimed at helping ease the burden on low income and immigrant families in Apopka is serving the community. The three-week camp is one program at Hope CommUnity Center and this year it’s open to families that were not already involved. Alex Saunders and Yoseline Rodriguez join us to talk about the camp and what the Kids Camp offers to kids and their parents.
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• The Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees for working adults through evening classes. Last month, 294 graduates received their diploma. From our Education Desk, 90.7’s Catherine Welch talked with the Holt School’s Director of Student and Faculty engagement Erik Kenyon about the challenges these students overcome while pursuing their degree.
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• It’s summer already for most students but the Brevard school district is already thinking about students who will need school supplies in the fall.
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