![Rebecca Blackwell Third grade teacher Megan Foster walks through her classroom as students take a break from a reading lesson to explore a computer animation of the planet Mars, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a0d4d27231404624a8331769df1280e3/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Third grade teacher Megan Foster walks through her classroom as students take a break from a reading lesson to explore a computer animation of the planet Mars, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Books are organized by theme inside the classroom of third grade teacher Megan Foster at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/117faf8e9b50405c976eb623b047708e/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Books are organized by theme inside the classroom of third grade teacher Megan Foster at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Wilfredo Lee Marisha Valbrun, 12, picks out a vial of fake neurotoxins to test in her Medical Detectives class, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e0a16c99925e497b83b0c80a2c574810/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Marisha Valbrun, 12, picks out a vial of fake neurotoxins to test in her Medical Detectives class, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Rebecca Blackwell Third graders listen at the start of Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/30fbbc48e1744c79ba27329a66be37fd/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Third graders listen at the start of Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Middle school science teacher Vanessa Stevenson, right, talks with students in her Science Fair class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a0ff1eb11f80434c8a700bc0aaa9dca8/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Middle school science teacher Vanessa Stevenson, right, talks with students in her Science Fair class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Wilfredo Lee Twelve-year-olds Emma Starkman, left, and Jianna Landazabal-Echeverri test fake neurotoxins to determine which ailments afflicted their imaginary patients, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/af1f7412bdad4c3182984535e720672d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Twelve-year-olds Emma Starkman, left, and Jianna Landazabal-Echeverri test fake neurotoxins to determine which ailments afflicted their imaginary patients, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Wilfredo Lee Michael Guerrier, 8, works on a computer, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. A public school of 636 kindergartners to eighth graders on the campus of Florida Atlantic University, Henderson scored in the top 1 to 3% in every subject and grade level on the state's latest standardized tests, with the exception of sixth-grade math where students scored in the top 7%. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/82c5483e332e4f699909f96b62b318f1/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Michael Guerrier, 8, works on a computer, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. A public school of 636 kindergartners to eighth graders on the campus of Florida Atlantic University, Henderson scored in the top 1 to 3% in every subject and grade level on the state's latest standardized tests, with the exception of sixth-grade math where students scored in the top 7%. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Wilfredo Lee Julia Nance, 14, works on a flight simulator in a class taught by her father, James Nance, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/86e94e06ffbf450cb62c1612737dd896/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Julia Nance, 14, works on a flight simulator in a class taught by her father, James Nance, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Wilfredo Lee Grace Ong, 13, foreground, works on a flight simulator, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0ddef527fd5c43bc911febbb0b8b48d8/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Grace Ong, 13, foreground, works on a flight simulator, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Rebecca Blackwell Middle school students walk between classes at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/646d9cc72d3345e0a3dfb94d6a5548d6/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Middle school students walk between classes at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Ella Oliveri, 8, center left, gets guidance from teacher Lindsey Wuest, as students make clay models of endangered or vulnerable animal species, in Wuest's Science As Art class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/ddc8800dddf54e73a097e1f7b04d621b/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Ella Oliveri, 8, center left, gets guidance from teacher Lindsey Wuest, as students make clay models of endangered or vulnerable animal species, in Wuest's Science As Art class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Eighth grader Anik Sahai, 14, displays an app he created that uses a cellphone's camera to diagnose diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, in the Science Fair class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Sahai's app took first place in the state's middle school science fair and is being considered for commercial use. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/3a4f70c7937045fa894810e3e7d47e0e/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Eighth grader Anik Sahai, 14, displays an app he created that uses a cellphone's camera to diagnose diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, in the Science Fair class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Sahai's app took first place in the state's middle school science fair and is being considered for commercial use. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell A first grader works on an assignment from math interventionist Jessica Foreman, who works with students in small groups, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/ba04f03da76b410f87873b05d18f20ea/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A first grader works on an assignment from math interventionist Jessica Foreman, who works with students in small groups, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Elementary school students line up in a hall on their way to a class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/13a8a3739a4a476dbe90921fd785a700/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Elementary school students line up in a hall on their way to a class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Eighth grader Anik Sahai, 14, tests and modifies code controlling a robotic arm, as he polishes the function of an app he created that uses a cellphone's camera to diagnose diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, in the Science Fair class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Sahai's app took first place in the state's middle school science fair and is being considered for commercial use. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c79dccd831ff460890f40d626b59579a/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Eighth grader Anik Sahai, 14, tests and modifies code controlling a robotic arm, as he polishes the function of an app he created that uses a cellphone's camera to diagnose diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, in the Science Fair class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Sahai's app took first place in the state's middle school science fair and is being considered for commercial use. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Students are reflected in a mirror as they wait to enter teacher Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art classroom, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/fba9291de76e4a2c95427da22daf6978/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Students are reflected in a mirror as they wait to enter teacher Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art classroom, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Ella Oliveri, 8, left, works alongside third grade classmates to sculpt clay models of endangered or vulnerable animal species, in Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e443d38d8ab24612834e7450d587e3aa/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Ella Oliveri, 8, left, works alongside third grade classmates to sculpt clay models of endangered or vulnerable animal species, in Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell A sign hangs inside the classroom of third grade teacher Megan Foster at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e19b9dbdc9154ed2934b5f2c544f1286/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A sign hangs inside the classroom of third grade teacher Megan Foster at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Wilfredo Lee Art and technology teacher Jenny O'Sullivan, right, shows students a video they made, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e20f2797e4de4ca1b1209f93ebc5ac41/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Art and technology teacher Jenny O'Sullivan, right, shows students a video they made, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. While many teachers nationally complain their districts dictate textbooks and course work, the South Florida school's administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity...and it works. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Rebecca Blackwell A student raises her hand to contribute in Megan Foster's third grade class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/d0a5c658cccb4425827f46fa6afdaf9d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A student raises her hand to contribute in Megan Foster's third grade class, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Rebecca Blackwell Math interventionist Jessica Foreman, center, works with a small group of first graders, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/7bab620fd1804ee5b49f327475aeacfe/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Math interventionist Jessica Foreman, center, works with a small group of first graders, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
![Wilfredo Lee Assistant principal Lauren Robinson speaks during an interview, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/ff5d03c8ee5248e69f5f1512f7237912/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Assistant principal Lauren Robinson speaks during an interview, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
![Wilfredo Lee Superintendent of Schools Joel Herbst speaks during an interview, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/05be477292d6417daadfb7e75207e6fd/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Superintendent of Schools Joel Herbst speaks during an interview, Monday, April 15, 2024, at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)