Visitors and employees have long admired all the framed student artwork in the School Administration Building’s hallways and offices. The student-made pieces are now joined by two storyboards commissioned to illustrate progress on the school division’s strategic framework, Compass to 2020. “When you come to the end of a strategic framework or plan you have a Read More…
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Tallwood and Kempsville high schools earn Energy Star certification
Tallwood and Kempsville high schools recently earned Energy Star Certification from the Environmental Protection Agency, bringing the school division’s total certifications to 30 buildings compared to only six buildings six years ago. These two new certifications also give Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) the largest inventory of Energy Star facilities in Hampton Roads, helping Read More…
Walck receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Princess Anne High School science teacher Dr. Camilla Walck is among 213 mathematics and science teachers named by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). In a press release issued by the White House Aug. 22, President Obama said, “The recipients of this award are integral Read More…
Principals point to staff, students, parents as key to SOL success
There was a special binder at College Park Elementary School that fifth-grade students clamored to see each and every school day. Its pages were made of the same paper as any other in the building, and its plastic covers bore no exceptional design or print. Yet, each fifth-grader was keenly aware of the binder and Read More…
Creeds steps up its multiplication practice for students
It started with a photo Casey Conger saw on Twitter in October. A school in California marked a set of stairs with vocabulary words for students to see more often. Eager to make the most of her own students’ transition time, the Creeds Elementary School principal started thinking about the two stairwells in her school. Read More…
Third annual Title I conference held Aug. 16
The school division’s Title I program hosted its third annual summer conference Aug. 16, attended by more than 400 people and featuring various speakers. Following remarks by Title I Programs Director Tina Alsop and Executive Director for Elementary Teaching and Learning Lesley Hughes, William Parrett and Kathleen Budge discussed how to turn high-poverty schools into Read More…
Cox and Bayside collaborate to create academic adventures
The sidewalks in front of Cox High School typically are not filled with chalk drawings of stick figures, hopscotch squares, smiley faces and other doodles. And it’s not common for an intense game of Duck, Duck, Goose to break out steps away from the school’s front doors. However, that was the scene the first week Read More…
Parent workshop provides overview of gifted education program
More than 40 parents in room C9 at Landstown Middle School sat, stood and leaned for one of the first breakout sessions of the morning. “How many of you have gifted students?” asked Dornswalo Wilkins-McCorey, instructional specialist in the school division’s Office of Gifted Education. Most attendees raised their hands. One parent responded, “We don’t Read More…
Aspiring entrepreneurs develop plans for their passions
One word. That is what rising ninth graders in the new Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School were asked to use to describe how they felt at the end of third day of the Envision Lead Grow program. Energized. Encouraged. Knowledgeable. Accomplished. Composed. Organized. Impacted. Empowered. The 20 female students also expressed feeling Read More…
School division earns national sustainability award
Beginning in September 2008, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has collected recycling material in each of its schools. Since then, VBCPS has diverted 8,900 tons from the waste stream. That is the equivalent to more than one and one-half million trees. For its innovative sustainability practices and effective environmental education, VBCPS was named a 2016 Read More…
