{"id":9265,"date":"2019-09-19T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:35:51","slug":"virginia-beach-educator-amongst-magazines-top-40-under-40-honorees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/virginia-beach-educator-amongst-magazines-top-40-under-40-honorees\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Beach educator amongst magazine\u2019s Top 40 under 40 honorees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside Business<\/em> magazine named Meghan Timlin, coordinator of Kempsville High School\u2019s (KHS) Entrepreneurship and Business Academy (EBA), a 2019 Top 40 Under 40 Awards recipient. The annual awards highlight the most outstanding young people in diverse professions across Hampton Roads, according to the magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited and honored,\u201d Timlin stated, adding that, \u201cThe recognition is for my school and our academy. It\u2019s the work of so many others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honorees are recognized for leadership roles,\u00a0innovation and mentoring\u2014traits that seem to run in the family of this KHS alumnus. Her father retired as principal of Point O\u2019View Elementary School and her mother was the Virginia Beach City Public Schools\u2019 (VBCPS) director of community relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my parents would work [on weekends], we would ride the scooters from PE and run up and down the hallways,\u201d Timlin vividly recalled.<\/p>\n

That love for education is easy to see why she and her siblings, both former VBCPS employees\u2014one a former teacher and the other a former School Plant employee\u2014joined the school division.<\/p>\n

After earning her bachelor\u2019s degree in marketing education from Virginia Tech and completing her student teaching, a position opened at Kempsville.<\/p>\n

\u201cI taught marketing and leadership skills, and back then it was crazy because I would have my advanced marketing students do business plans,\u201d Timlin said. \u201cSo now it\u2019s so funny to work with entrepreneurship students because I feel like that has always been a focus for me, to help students pursue their passion and gain money at the same time\u2014to provide a life for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

But before becoming the EBA coordinator, this now 17-year educator, spent eight years teaching at KHS, earned her master\u2019s in educational leadership from the University of Virginia, served as the school improvement specialist at Independence Middle School for one year and was that school\u2019s assistant principal for three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then this opportunity came about,\u201d Timlin stated.<\/p>\n

Kempsville was at the ground floor of starting the EBA, which has now grown to 440 students and allows students from across the division to enroll in one of three strands:<\/p>\n