At Florida school, teacher autonomy leads to classroom excellence
80 Henderson FAU High School is a legislatively designated laboratory school and the notion is to improve the education practice in the state of Florida and beyond. You need to be able to tinker, if you will experiment. This platform gives us the opportunity to do that, to dive deep into research, educational research as well as other research and come up with solutions, first affecting Florida and 2nd how can we impact the country as a whole? Relative to. Public education. There is a lot of our own individual input allowed. In doing the activities that we want to do in the classroom, which I personally really like, and and the students are fantastic, there’s so much you can learn how to do. You can take Miss Frank Candy’s classes and learn how to sing, dance and act. You can take Mr. Carr and learn how to do your taxes and finance and invest in stocks. You can do a bunch of different sports. And you really have the options to do everything. And there’s also all these tech classes and clubs. Where you don’t usually get in the average schools. Yeah, before I felt like my career was just destined to be this straight line of just being an art teacher. But now I see I can participate in research, I can be involved in a national level, I can create a new curriculum and study of the impacts of it. And to me that opens up a whole new world of being inspired and kind of reinvigorated to be a teacher.