Each year, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and Virginia Community College System (VCCS) honor exemplary career and technical education programs and partnerships with Virginia Career and Technical Education Creating Excellence Awards. Awards are presented in three categories – advisory committee, business and industry partnership, and programs – and VBCPS was among the honorees recognized Read More…
Awards & Accolades
2015-16 Pearl School Award Winners named
Lynnhaven River Now has released the complete list of winners for the annual Pearl School Awards. VBCPS had 70 of its 86 schools and centers recognized for the honor, which is awarded for excellence in environmental education, stewardship and sustainability. The program started in 2006-2007 school year. Congratulations to the 2015-16 Pearl School award winners: Read More…
Harris, Reinen named to ASCD Future Leaders program
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) selected 50 educators across the country to join its 2016 class of emerging leaders. Of these 50 educators, VBCPS had two staff members make the cut. Salem Elementary School Assistant Principal Micah Harris and Professional Learning Specialist Bevin Reinen have been named to the Emerging Leaders program. Read More…
14 VBCPS schools named to Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) list
Governor Terry McAuliffe and the state Board of Education announced the 2016 Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) award winners Tuesday. This year, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) had 14 schools earn a VIP award. Kemps Landing/Old Donation School, Kingston Elementary, Strawbridge Elementary and Thoroughgood Elementary all received 2016 Board of Education Excellence Awards. According Read More…
Long receives 2016 Esther Goldman Teacher Award
Virginia Beach Middle School eighth-grade English teacher Mary Long is the recipient of the 2016 Esther Goldman Teacher Award. The award includes a full scholarship for the 2016 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia this summer. In addition, she was awarded $200 for her exemplary teaching strategies of Read More…
Virginia Lottery surprises Super Teacher Maurice Cullen with honor
This was no SOL pep rally. Dr. Sandi Brown wasted no time in owning up to her deceit. After a quick cheer from the Virginia Beach Middle School cheerleading squad, Brown made her way to the podium on the brightly decorated stage and came clean. It was all a ruse. Though she had convened the Read More…
Congratulations to the Teacher Assistants of the Year
Congratulations to the VBCPS Teacher Assistants of the Year! Tonya Snow, Adult Learning Center Sandra Willie, Alanton Elementary School Susan Brewington, Arrowhead Elementary School Jennifer Greiner, B. F. Williams Elementary School Eve Stocks, Bayside Elementary School Michele Parker, Bayside High School Melvin Francis, Bayside Middle School Carol Wilson, Bayside Sixth Grade Campus Gail Hinson, Birdneck Read More…
Stark earns top Horizons honor
Andrew Stark, a third grade teacher at Seatack Elementary: An Achievable Dream Academy received the Horizons Lyn McNaught National Teacher of the Year Award. Stark was honored for his participation with Horizons Hampton Roads, which is a six-week summer educational enrichment program for low-income K-8 grade public school students in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach. McNaught, Read More…
Nurse at Pembroke Meadows awarded the 2015-16 School Nurse of the Year award
Representatives from the Virginia Beach School Nurses Association (VBSNA) presented the 2015-2016 School Nurse of the Year award to Robin Latchford, RN at Pembroke Meadows Elementary. Congratulations! Tell your friends! Follow us!
Marlin named VBCPS TCE Counselor of the Year
Congratulations to Robert Marlin, Jr. for being named VBCPS Technical and Career Education (TCE) Counselor of the Year. This is the second time in his VBCPS career he has earned the honor. Marlin became the school guidance director at the Virginia Beach TCE Center in July and coordinates its recruitment efforts and application process, develops Read More…
