In order to receive benefits in 2017, benefits-eligible employees must sign up during this year’s mandatory Open Enrollment, which is scheduled to occur from Oct. 3 – Nov. 4 for full-time and full-time equivalent school employees. According to the summer edition of the Open Enrollment Guide mailed home and emailed to employees, benefits will not automatically Read More…
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Brandon Middle distributes school supplies in community
Brandon Middle School has collected school supplies over time from various organizations and churches to share with students who may need extra materials. Rather than wait for students to return to school to provide supplies, Brandon staff members went into the community Friday, Aug. 26, to deliver supplies. They visited Brookwood Apartments to provide bags, notebooks, Read More…
Summer programs support student transitions to middle and high school
Eighth graders admitted to feeling nervous on their first day of middle school. High school seniors remember being uncertain about what to expect as freshmen. These experienced students are now sharing lessons learned with rising sixth-graders and ninth-graders in transition programs hosted by the division’s secondary schools before the new school year begins. The programs Read More…
Storyboards showcase Compass to 2020 progress
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hampton Roads school divisions gather to discuss excellence through equity
“Don’t make this conflict inside of me harder.” “Does every English speaker ace English?” “The way that someone looks should not define them.” “I listened. Did you listen?” Those messages reflected the voices and hearts of 13 students from several school divisions who took to the stage to perform an opening number that set the Read More…
