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Florida Teacher Sees Students Achieve Full Graduation Rate and College Enrollment

Mike Lawson • News • April 12, 2012

A music teacher at Florida’s Miramar High School is turning heads for a very quick turnaround lately. A music teacher at Florida’s Miramar High School is turning heads for a very quick turnaround lately.

Band teacher Alvin Davis, has proudly taken charge of a group of students who are not only graduating from high school, but are enrolling in, and graduating from college. For the past 4 years the band director, Alvin Davis, has had a 100% graduation rate and enrollment in college.

Davis was also named the county and the state’s Teacher of the Year. Davis, 35, has been teaching for 11 years, the last eight at Miramar High.

Davis was recently profiled by CBS News, who produced the video at the following link: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7404214n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

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