Clay Education Foundation

10/21/2026

Building math-confident students is everyone’s business!

We were happy to host a conversation about building math-confident students this morning along with the Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida Chamber Foundation, the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations, Impact Florida, UF Lastinger Center for Learning, and local business and community leaders. Thank you to everyone who came out for this important conversation about the math skills that students really need for today's workforce.

If you'd like to learn more about math learning and how to better prepare Florida’s students for the careers and opportunities of the future, visit: https://www.flchamber.com/mathmattersreport1

10/20/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
The Clay Education invites you to celebrate excellence in education at the 2027 Apple Awards! Join us on Thursday, January 27th at 6:30 pm as we crown the next Teacher of the Year, School-Related Employee of the Year, and Rookie Teacher of the Year!

10/16/2026

📚 Building math-confident students is everyone’s business!

Florida’s future workforce starts in today’s classrooms. From healthcare and technology to skilled trades, math skills are essential to preparing students for the careers of tomorrow.

We have an opportunity to change that, and it will take all of us working together!

The Clay Education Foundation, in partnership with the Florida Chamber Foundation, invites local business and community leaders to join us for an important conversation about strengthening math confidence, supporting student success, and building a stronger future workforce.

💡 Your voice matters! We want to hear from our business community about the skills our future workforce needs and how we can work together to better prepare students for success.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Check-in and breakfast at 8:30 a.m.
Program 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Orange Park High School- Adult & Community Education, TLC Room
2306 Kingsley Ave.
Orange Park, FL

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10/13/2026

Foundation leaders Carolyn and Heather are attending their fifth ConnectEd Conference, hosted by the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations!

This year, we are coming together around an important conversation: Why Students’ Math Confidence Is Everyone’s Business.

💡 Did you know?

Across six longitudinal studies, the math skills children brought to kindergarten were the strongest predictor of later school achievement, ahead of early reading and attention skills.

10/12/2026

🍎✨ What a fabulous day celebrating Clay County District Schools’ Teachers of the Year and School-Related Employees of the Year!

We were honored to welcome 2027 Florida Teacher of the Year Kyndall Brown from Osceola County, who delivered an inspiring keynote address!

A special thank you to Superintendent David Broskie, Clay Teachers Lead, and the CCDS Human Resources team for coming together to make this day so memorable!

🌟 Help us continue the celebration! Join us in honoring Clay County’s finest educators and school employees by becoming a sponsor of the Apple Awards on January 21! Your support helps us recognize the incredible people who make a difference for students every day.

To register for the event and learn more about sponsorship, visit us at https://clayeducationfoundation.org/events/

10/09/2026

Ms. Hardin's class at Bannerman Learning Center took their lessons on ecosystems to the next level by building dioramas with the materials they received from Grants for Great Ideas! Thank you to Community First Cares Foundation and the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations School District Education Foundation Matching Grant Program for supporting this important hands-on lesson!

10/08/2026

Happy belated birthday to our board secretary, Jeff Hill!

10/08/2026

We’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to David Weekley Homes who not only awarded the Clay Education Foundation a grant to purchase metal shelving to replace our aging plastic shelving in the Tools for Schools store, they also volunteered their time to build the shelves!

10/07/2026

🏈 Thank you to the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida for a great Sector Connect event! Networking with our nonprofit peers from across the region is always a WIN! 🐆