Kudos to Jason Barefoot for receiving the Technical and Career Education High School Teacher of the Year Award. This honor is bestowed upon educators who demonstrate leadership, innovation and community involvement. Applicants must be a member of a career and technical professional organization, participate in a live interview with the selection panel, and are required Read More…

Valerie Winborne, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) gifted dance program chairperson, has been named the Pre-kindergarten-12th grade (P-12) Master Dance Educator of the Year for 2016. Presented annually by the National Dance Society, the award recognizes excellence in dance education in school divisions. Winborne has taught in the division’s Gifted Dance Education Program at Read More…

Congratulations to Woodstock Elementary School teachers Stephanie Wyman and Cherie Brogan for their selection to the 2016 Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy. They are two of six teachers selected from Virginia and 154 teachers selected nationwide. According to the academy’s website, the program is “a weeklong, all-expense-paid, professional development program for third- through fifth-grade teachers that equips Read More…

Jenna Free, an English teacher and Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow (VTfT) instructor at Tallwood High School, has been named the 2017 Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) Citywide Teacher of the Year. Superintendent Dr. Aaron Spence made the announcement this morning in a surprise visit to one of Free’s AP English classes. A National Board Read More…

Each year, Virginia Mentoring Partnership (VMP) recognizes the contributions made by mentoring programs and volunteer mentors to the lives of young people in Virginia. At its 14th Annual Virginia Mentoring Awards event March 17, VMP recognized Virginia Beach READS as the recipient of its 2016 Outstanding Mentoring Program Award. The Virginia Beach READS mentoring program Read More…

The Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21) and Ocean Lakes High School’s technology teachers Cecilia Hess and Scott Sonier presented at the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association’s (ITEEA) 2016 National Conference. Hess and Sonier’s presentation was in support of OLHS’s P21 designation of Exemplar School. The session entitled, “What Great Schools Do – Learning Read More…

Hundreds of VBCPS students and staff members are signed up to compete in races associated with J&A Racing’s annual Shamrock Marathon weekend March 18-20 at the oceanfront. One teacher, King’s Grant Elementary School physical education teacher Chris Porter, has been selected for the Elite for a Day program and will race against American and international Read More…

Congratulations to Tina Alsop, who received the Virginia State Reading Association’s (VSRA) James D. Mullins Leadership Award at its annual conference held in Norfolk, March 3-5. Alsop is the Title I coordinator in the Department of Teaching and Learning. The James D. Mullins Leadership Award was established in 1994 to recognize administrators who show exceptional support of Read More…

Three VBCPS teachers recently received awards from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Teacher Recruitment and Retention Incentive Award is geared toward attracting, recruiting and retaining high-quality individuals to teach STEM subjects in Virginia’s middle and high schools. Mary Hardesty, a math specialist at Bayside Middle School and Read More…