Strawbridge Elementary School’s Computer Resource Specialist Katie Catania has been named a Tech4Learning Innovative Educator. According to the Tech4Learning website, the Tech4Learning Innovative Educator program is designed to recognize the work that exceptional classroom teachers, trainers, aides, community organizations, principals and more are doing with Tech4Learning products. Tell your friends! Follow us!  

Cox High School Media Liaison Erin Tonelson contributed to this post. Cox High School Orchestra teacher Aaron Hardwick and Landstown High School Choral Director Dr. Martha Springstead were recently chosen as exceptional music teachers and two of the “Favorite Music Teachers of Hampton Roads” by the National Association for Music Education’s Music in our Schools Read More…

Kenneth Reichert, social studies teacher at Bayside Middle School, was recognized by the Adam Thoroughgood Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) for his outstanding performance in teaching and learning American history. Eight years ago, Reichert completed the Troops to Teaching program that offers retired military the training to become classroom teachers.  He Read More…

Camilla Walck, a science teacher from Princess Anne High School, has been selected as one of the top ten National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) Claes Nobel Educators of the Year for 2013. According to the NSHSS, selections were based on demonstrated passion and dedication to education, students and the community. Congratulations! Tell your Read More…

Kempsville Elementary’s Moira Askew received a certificate of appreciation recently from the Virginia Beach Police Department. Askew, and her daughter Mariah Smith, a 2012 Kempsville High School graduate, started the organization Blankets for the Homeless Hampton Roads in October 2011 and have already distributed more than 40,000 blankets and hand-packed bagged lunches to people living Read More…

Pembroke Elementary School’s Judy Wiggins was named a Fox 43 Hampton Roads Hero, which is given in recognition of extraordinary effort and commitment to the Hampton Roads community. Wiggins, an ID teacher at the school, was nominated by one of her student’s parents for all of her work with students with disabilities. See the full story Read More…

Linda Lavender, Computer Network Administration instructor at the Advanced Technology Center, was named the Virginia Chapter Association of Career and Technical Education’s Teacher of the Year for Community Service. She was recognized for her volunteer activities including the creation, design and support of the ATC’s Parent Technology Academy, developing green and sustainable practices and incorporating Read More…

Kemps Landing Magnet School’s Jamie Young and Kellam High School’s Christopher Freeman have been named two “Trailblazing Teachers” by the United States Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools. Ten teachers are selected twice each year from across the country, and both Young and Freeman made this fall’s list. According to the USGBC, in order Read More…

The Virginia Beach Reading Council (VBRC) have named their annual Teacher and Administrator of the Year for 2013-14. Congratulations to Glenwood Elementary’s Tammie Soccio, who has been named the 2013-14 Reading Teacher of the Year, and Sean R. Walker, principal at Alanton Elementary School, received the James D. Mullins Leadership Award as Administrator of the Read More…

Pembroke Elementary’s Karen Drosinos was given an Outstanding Teaching award at Penn State University’s College of Education Alumni Society Awards Banquet. Drosinos graduated from Penn State in 1998. According to a press release from Penn State, Drosinos’s teaching style has been described as “mesmerizing and awe-inspiring as she focuses on each and every student in Read More…