Education
Santa Rosa Teacher Wins FSU’s First-Ever STEM Innovator Award
Anna Prindle, a fifth-grade teacher at Holley-Navarre Intermediate School, was named the inaugural Innovating Teacher of the Year by FSU’s Florida Center for Research in STEM.
A fifth-grade teacher at Holley-Navarre Intermediate has been recognized statewide for transforming how her students experience science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Anna Prindle received the first-ever Innovating Teacher of the Year award from the Florida Center for Research in STEM (FCR-STEM) at Florida State University. The award was presented at the school on Thursday, May 14.
Prindle brings more than 20 years of teaching experience to the classroom, including time in multiple states, virtual learning environments, and international teaching in Japan. Along the way, she has secured major STEM grants that funded robotics, coding, 3D printing, and other hands-on activities for her students—opportunities that would not have existed otherwise.
What She’s Built at Holley-Navarre
Prindle’s approach goes well beyond individual lessons. As chair of the school’s STEAM Committee, she has grown STEAM Night into a community event drawing more than 450 participants and 170 families. She launched a schoolwide industry panel during Manufacturing Month, connecting students with professionals from GE Vernova and the Doolittle Institute. Her One School, One Project initiative engages nearly 700 students across 35 classrooms in shared engineering design challenges…