Kemps Landing Old Donation School staff member’s names Sally Applebach, Camille Grabb and Cherie Allen enjoy lunch in their courtyard. The schools have combined this year and are currently at the former Princess Anne Middle School building while construction is going on for the new gifted school. Tell your friends! Follow us!
What’s Cool in the Schools
Salem Elementary teaches like a pirate
First-grade teachers at Salem Elementary celebrated national “Talk Like a Pirate Day” by implementing strategies for student engagement inspired by Dave Burgess, author of “Teach Like a Pirate” and presenter in VBCPS national speaker series. Tell your friends! Follow us!
The play on reading at Diamond Springs
All 19 kindergarten teachers at Diamond Springs Elementary School took part in a special collaboration to share best practices for small group reading instruction. One team of teachers even performed a skit to highlight how to work with Pre-A readers. See the pictures below: Tell your friends! Follow us!
Salem’s bittersweet start to school
Salem Elementary School faculty and staff dressed in pink for their annual staff picture this year in order to honor Salem SECEP teacher Vanessa Rambaoa, who passed away of breast cancer this summer. Tell your friends! Follow us!
Four VBCPS teachers selected for VCET
Tara St. Clair, Pembroke Elementary, JoAnna Mills-Sampson, Diamond Springs Elementary, Brian Meechan, Green Run Collegiate and Mika Tanaka, Plaza Middle School were selected to participate in the Virginia Center for Excellence in Teaching (VCET), a new, highly selective professional development program for teachers, which launched this summer at George Mason University. These teachers are four Read More…
Kempsville Elementary has busloads of excitement to start the school year
Kempsville Elementary School (KES) teachers and staff members took a playful spin on the typical back to school photo by taking it in front of a VBCPS school bus while donning KES colors, blue and orange. The classrooms are bright and ready, just like the educators who have been preparing all week to start the new Read More…
Independence staff welcomed back with food truck treats
After a week of preparing for the new school year, Independence Middle School staff members enjoyed a BBQ luncheon and frosty treat from the schools’ Administrative Team. All agree that it will be the best school year ever! Tell your friends! Follow us!
Congratulations to the 2014-15 Tagged By The Superintendent recipients
Fall 2014: Joyce Halstead, Adult Learning Center Kathy Sargent, Advanced Technology Center Coleen Bonney, Alanton Elementary School Sue Carroll, Arrowhead Elementary School Darnell Wilson, Bayside Sixth-Grade Campus Patricia Waller, Bayside Elementary School Sam Hamilton, Bayside High School Andrew Wynn, Bayside Middle School Kerri Paul, Bettie F. Williams Elementary School Gail Hinson, Birdneck Elementary School Goldie Read More…
2014-15 I Make A Difference Award Winners
June Bayside Middle – Hazel Gains, Alexis Downham, Helen Ryan Glenwood Elementary – Theresa Rywalt, Ary Muise, Betsy Harvell, Angelique Powell, Jill Green Larkspur Middle – Ricky Caffee, Virgo “George” Pillega Salem Middle – Lisa Hess May Bayside Middle – Francis Melvin , Alison Acosta, Christine Webster, Constance Keys, Wickie Riggens Brandon Middle – Michelle Read More…
Headlines 2014-15: Virginia Beach staff in the news
Check out the following staff members who have authored or been featured in recent publications: Ocean Lakes High School principal Dr. Cheryl Askew and former Citywide Teacher of the Year Carrie Gantt were featured in the latest Regent University publication, Impact. VBCPS Sustainability Officer Tim Cole co-authored a chapter in a recently published book, “Marketing the Read More…
