Palm Pointe students earn pizza with the principal

Approximately 50 students recenlty enjoyed a pizza lunch with principal Debra Snyder at Palm Pointe Educational Research School @ Tradition.  Students spent their hard earned “rocket fuel” to have the honor of eating with the principal.  This is part of the PBS (Positive Behavior Support) program used at the school.  Way to go Rockets and keep up the great work!  

Pizza Incentives for Attendance at Westwood

Westwood students with zero tardies and absences were entered into a drawing for pizza! We are proud of our students who are proactive with getting to class! Congrats to our winners and thanks to our business partners Big Apple Pizza!

Piscopo Winds Up For First Pitch

St. Lucie County’s Assistant Principal of the Year and one of Florida’s finalists for this prestigious honor Samantha Piscopo warmed up to throw the ceremonial first pitch at the St. Lucie Mets baseball game.  She was accompanied by family and friends for an exciting evening of baseball on Thursday, April 25.

Piscopo Honored as State Finalist for Assistant Principal of the Year

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FL –St. Lucie Public Schools (SLPS) is proud to share the Florida Department of Education’s (FDOE) announcement that Dan McCarty Middle School Assistant Principal Samantha Piscopo was named as one of the State’s five finalists for the 2019 District Assistant Principal of the Year!   “To be recognized as a State finalist is a great honor,” said Superintendent E. Wayne Gent. “Ms. Piscopo is an outstanding instructional leader who helps set the pace for student achievement and promotes a learning environment focused on excellence.”   Piscopo is an educational veteran who exhibits a spirit of relentlessness in … Read More

Piscopo Honored a State Finalist for Assistant Principal of the Year

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FL – St. Lucie Public Schools (SLPS) is proud to share the Florida Department of Education’s (FDOE) announcement that Dan McCarty Middle School Assistant Principal Samantha Piscopo was named as one of the State’s five finalists for the 2019 District Assistant Principal of the Year!   “To be recognized as a State finalist is a great honor,” said Superintendent E. Wayne Gent. “Ms. Piscopo is an outstanding instructional leader who helps set the pace for student achievement and promotes a learning environment focused on excellence.”   Piscopo is an educational veteran who exhibits a spirit of relentlessness … Read More

Pirate Readers Celebrate!

Instructional Coach, Christine Duane,  presents a Pirate Reader lanyard and 25 point button to Ivan Pulido-Hernandez, who the first student at Parkway Elementary School to earn the award!  Readers are leaders and Ivan is leading the way.

Pippin is Coming to LPA

Introducing Lincoln Park Academy Theatre’s fall musical… Pippin! This magnificent tale follows a young prince named Pippin who longs to find passion and adventure in his life. As told by a traveling troupe of actors led by the cunning Leading Player, Pippin becomes a soldier for his father Charlemagne’s army but is upset by the way his father rules. After taking things into his own hands, and becoming king, he is even more lost and unsure about what he wants in life and turns away from everything, including love, before discovering that what he has been searching for has been … Read More

Pink Ribbon at MSE

Teachers and students at Morningside Elementary dressed in pink shirts in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Pink, Poised, and Legally Blonde

For its spring performance, Fort Pierce Central High School drama department proudly presented Harvard bound Elle Woods in Legally Blonde the Musical. Ms. Browning and her students make theater more than a class, performing arts credit, or scheduled elective. Students learn all aspects of stage performance, technical, and backstage craft. The Arts draw students into new opportunities to build skills and interests while revealing personal talents. The Arts have a place for everyone. FPC is proud to have talented artists on every stage, at every level pursuing their performance dreams. Backstage the fun was perfectly balanced with poise and purpose!

Pilot Club Presentation

Pilot Club members presented a check to the School Board on January 13th for the 2014-2015 Pilot Club Grant. The check in the amount of $1,500 is to be used for the Best Buddies Program at Fort Pierce Central High School. Best Buddies International is a non-profit 501 organization. It consists of volunteers that create opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Best Buddies High Schools foster one-to-one friendships between students with and without IDD. The high school years are a time of heightened social and emotional development and can be difficult even for those without IDD. Best Buddies High Schools helps break through social barriers at an important time in a young person’s life. Pictured in the back row are, Kristi Pacocha, Megan Guyer, Joseph Lezeau … Read More

Pilot Club Donates $1,500

At the April 8th School Board Meeting, the Pilot Club of Fort Pierce donated $1,500.00 to the St. Lucie Public Schools Exceptional Education Department to work with students on a project with on-the-job training using technology. Pictured in the front row are, Board Chairman Debbie Hawley, President of the Pilot Club of Fort Pierce Jan Smith, Incoming President of the Pilot Club Tammy Wood, Pilot Club Member Joan Dodd, ESE Program Specialist Lesa Kitzmiller. Pictured on the back row are, Superintendent Genelle Yost, and Assistant Superintendent Bill Tomlinson.

Pilgrims visit Northport third graders

Students in Megan Castiglia and Susan Poveromo’s third grade classes at Northport K8 School were visited recently in the media center by Pilgrims direct from the Port St. Lucie American Legion Post 318. Pictured are Walter Sawyer, standing far right, as John Alden, with Rita Woodburn as Governor Bradford’s wife, Ann Mallardi as Priscilla Mullens and Gianna Vallee as Becky, a young child on the Mayflower. The ensemble told the students that 102 people were on the Mayflower crossing and only about half survived the trip, with only five women surviving. They spoke of the hardships the Pilgrims endured and … Read More

Pie in the Face Virtual Fundraising was a Success for Oak Hammock K-8

The Kids Heart Challenge is an annual event the students participate in at Oak Hammock K-8. Students in Coach Branim’s K-5 physical education resources class learned about heart health while hosting a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. The virtual fundraiser event had a total of 130 elementary student participants who raised $7,430.00 this school year. The students were incentivized by having the opportunity to smash, Coach Branim with a “Pie in the Face” if they raised $100 or more. The “Pie in the Face” was a success! There were a total of 27 students who met or exceeded the … Read More

Pie in the Face for Kids Heart Challenge

Oak Hammock K-8 elementary students were up for the challenge of smashing a pie in the face of Coach Branim. The Kids Heart Challenge is a fun and exciting event where students learn about their hearts while helping others by raising money for the American Heart Association. It prepares our students for success through physical and emotional well-being as they learned the importance of being healthy. This year, Oak Hammock K-8 had a total of 125 students in grades K-5 raise a total of $6,860.00. Students were challenged to raise $100 for the opportunity to smash a pie in Coach … Read More

Pie-In-The-Face

C.A. Moore Elementary students celebrated their 1st quarter attendance with a Pie-in-the-face extravaganza. 312 students made the goal of 90-100% attendance since the start of school. It would not be an attendance event without our Amazing Attendance Ambassador, Zion who greeted all the students and reminded them to come to school! We wish to thank Officer Goz, Dr. Jackson, Mrs. Berggren, Ms. Clark, and Ms. LaFlamme for graciously volunteering to get “pied”. And, last but not least, thank you to Superintendent Dr. Jon R Prince for coming out to support C.A. Moore students.

Picturing Economics

The students in Mrs. Harris’ first grade class at Village Green Environmental School participated in the Florida Council on Economic Education’s Fall 2018 Poster Contest. The students all drew pictures describing various economic terms such as entrepreneur, trade, goods and services, producers and consumers, etc. Students from all over the State participate in this contest (K-12) throughout the year. Shirly Ferrer and Evelina Silverberg both won!  Congratulations.

Piano Donated to Port St. Lucie High School

Mr. Ocampo and Port St. Lucie High School were recently the recipients of a beautiful grand piano appraised at over $8,000. The piano was gifted to the school by Angela DiSomone, 89, courtesy of her brother, the piano’s owner, Joseph Falotico, 96.  The labor of moving the large instrument was donated by Arnoff Moving and Storage.  The students will enjoy this grand donation for many years to come!

Physicians Immediate Care Makes Donation

Physicians Immediate Care conducted a promotion during the summer months in which they pledged to donate $5 per sports physical conducted at their medical facilities. They raised $555 which the Education Foundation will apply towards the 2017 Teacher Matching Grant Program. Foundation President Thom Jones, Superintendent E. Wayne Gent, and School Board Members accepted the generous donation from Dr. Ken Palestrant, CEO of Physicians Immediate Care and Jeannie Jacobson, Director of Marketing, at a recent Board meeting.    

Phonics-based Learning

SLPS has a strong focus on early literacy.  Check out this article on how the District is inspiring students to become lifelong learners through reading.   3 steps to implementing an ecosystem of phonics-based learning

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