by kaylasharp | Feb 24, 2016 | Alumni Notes, Giving, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases
Leslie Eggert Scales-Holloway (BAE ’68) was visibly moved as she reflected on her late father’s role as the beloved principal at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School from 1947 to 1952. “He strongly believed in the connection between school and community,”...
by kaylasharp | Jan 19, 2016 | Headlines, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Research News
Inspired by the early impact of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School’s new, state-of-the-art elementary wing, faculty researchers from PKY and the University of Florida are teaming up on pioneering studies into how school building design can influence and improve...
by kaylasharp | Dec 2, 2015 | Newsmakers, P.K. Yonge
The news bears repeating. P.K. Yonge’s girls volleyball team did it again. For the second year in a row the Blue Wave girls’ volleyball team won the Florida high school state championship. The team capped off its sparkling season by sweeping Palmer...
by kaylasharp | Nov 24, 2015 | Headlines, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Spotlights
Teachers bring back lessons from professional-development trips abroad Mayra Cordero joined a scientific mission to hunt for fossils in Panama. Macy Geiger and Angie Flavin traveled to Haiti to help Haitian teachers improve the way they teach their students....
by kaylasharp | Apr 22, 2015 | P.K. Yonge
P.K. Yonge: Robotics world champs? Well, we don’t know yet. At this writing, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School’s robotics team is competing in the FIRST Robotics Championship April 22-25 in St. Louis. The 21-member Roaring Riptide team qualified for the...
by kaylasharp | Apr 21, 2015 | P.K. Yonge
Striving to make an impact on education locally, statewide and beyond, UF’s K-12 lab school, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, has been hosting more than 300 K-12 visiting educators annually as part of its Research in Action program, offering...
