“Three months ago, the Marion County School Board removed the Sanford Harmony social emotional learning or SEL program because of how it countered gender stereotyping .A Baptist pastor told them its lessons on gender norms blurred the lines between ‘boyness and girlness.’ On Thursday, the board struggled to replace that free and highly rated curriculum for its students in kindergarten through fifth grade.”
“The crackdown follows a deadly traffic accident last weekend at NW 17th Avenue and West University Avenue. Sophia Lambert, 18, a UF sophomore, died and five others were hospitalized after a car crashed into another moving vehicle while turning onto 17th Avenue.”
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Nicole Harris Named 2021 Alachua County Public Schools Teacher Of The Year
By Marlena Carrillo
January 22, 2021
Nicole Harris says all teachers relate to how Mark Nepo begins his poem “Adrift”: “Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief.”
Harris was named 2021 Alachua County Teacher of the Year during a virtual ceremony hosted Thursday by the Education Foundation of Alachua County and held on the school district’s YouTube channel.
An English and African American history teacher at Gainesville High School, Harris, 34, was introduced during the event by a former student, Briyona Lawrence, a founding member of ‘Canes on Da Mic, a literacy arts and civic engagement organization the instructor established.