Congratulations to America’s newest Purple Heart Entity

the Citrus County Property Appraiser’s Office

I was honored today to attend a special Purple Heart Proclamation Ceremony designating the Citrus County Property Appraiser Office as a Purple Heart Entity.

I was grateful to support Cregg Dalton and the whole County Property Appraiser Office and represent Citrus County School District, America’s “first” Purple Heart school district Entity.

Special thank you to the Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart for this designation.

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LHS IB Theory of Knowledge Exhibition Night

Last night LHS junior and senior International Baccalaureate (IB) candidates presented their Theory of Knowledge Exhibitions. The students’ TOK exhibitions included a verbal presentation that accompanied their 1,600-word essay.  Attendees then had the opportunity to ask questions of the students about their exhibitions.

These IB student TOK exhibitions were so in-depth. The IB website describes TOK as, “a thoughtful and purposeful inquiry into different ways of knowing, and into different kinds of knowledge, TOK is composed almost entirely of questions. The most central of these is ‘How do we know?’, while other questions include: What counts as evidence for X? How do we judge which is the best model of Y? What does theory Z mean in the real world?”

The LHS International Baccalaureate (IB) program is another of our Citrus School’s choice magnet programs where parents and students choose to participate in the program and apply their 8th-grade year for acceptance their high school freshman year.

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Junior Achievement and entrepreneurship taught by students to students

Annual CRHS Academy students teaching at CRP

For over 25 years Kym McGee, Regional Director for Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay has partnered with the Crystal River High School Academy of Health Careers for JA’s “High school heroes” program. Once again, this year I came out to see this program in action.

This High school heroes program places the CRHS students in the leadership position where they become the educator for the day. The students teach Crystal River Primary K-5th grade students lessons that provide a strong foundation for making informed decisions later in life, as well as sound money management. The CRHS student leaders work in teams to become experts using Junior Achievement lessons around these valuable concepts while also developing valuable communication and creative thinking skills.

Both my own children had this opportunity of participating as student leaders by both learning and teaching these valuable lessons on community, entrepreneurship, and governance. These student leaders spend time learning the lessons that they will teach with help of the Junior Achievement volunteers. CRHS teachers then work with the student leaders on the materials and teaching strategies.

Thank you to Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay, CRHS teachers, CRP teachers, and our CRHS AHC students for their support and work in making this happen.

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