A recent collaborative planning at Newtown Elementary had third grade teachers practice solving an Exemplar. The teachers will have students complete this activity as part of Math Congress. Math Congress involves problem solving, collaboration, team work and accountable talk. Pictured from left to right here are Chandra Tenpenny, Ebone Taylor and Katie Lewis. Tell your Read More…
What’s Cool in the Schools
Independence staff hosts special book fair
The English department at Independence Middle School recently held a Book Fair at Barnes and Noble, Town Center. Shoppers enjoyed staff and student entertainment that included vocal and acoustic music, the school’s Step Team and performance poetry . Proceeds from the fair will be used to purchase novels for classrooms. Check out some of the staff in action: Read More…
ODC staff meet with international gifted education professional
Bozca Aysegul Islekeller, a doctoral candidate of the School of Education for Gifted Children at the University of Istanbul, recently visited Old Donation Center. Islekller was at ODC to learn about gifted education as part of her doctoral studies. She visited classrooms, talked with staff and visited a curriculum writing session. While there, Islekeller met with third-grade teachers Sharon Boudreau and Cindy Dufour. Read More…
Congratulations to the 2013-14 Tagged By The Superintendent recipients
Spring 2014 Adult Learning Center Gwen Stace Advanced Technology Center Deborah Hill Alanton Elementary Melissa Johnston Arrowhead Elementary Kathy Gibson Bayside Elementary Amy Celec Bayside High School Alicia Wuornos Bayside Middle Tanya Hogge Bettie F. Williams Elementary Jimmy Scurry Birdneck Elementary Donna McCanna Brandon Middle Wendy Malone-Fulton Brookwood Elementary Tiffany Elliott Centerville Elementary Constance Smith Read More…
Red Mill ‘super’ staff comes to hungry families’ rescue
Red Mill Elementary School’s SCA sponsored a week long “Super Hero Food Drive” that ended with a Super Hero themed school Spirit Day. Red Mill staff and students (also known as the Red Mill Super Heroes) showed they “Have the Power to Fight Hunger” by collecting 2,793 nonperishable food items. Take a look at how Read More…
Bayside High cheers on famous alum during Spirit Day
Bayside High School and Health Sciences Academy teachers showed their support for their former quarterback EJ Manuel at a recent spirit day. Manuel graduated from BHS in 2008 as an All-American quarterback. While there he participated in the SCA Mr. Bayside Pageant, was a member of the basketball team, ran Track and went on to quarterback Read More…
Bring your dad to work day at Corporate Landing Middle
Students in Corey Wiles’ seventh-grade class have the benefit of some additional instruction. Richard Harris is a financial planner, and for the past six years has found time to visit Wiles’ classes to help cover a number of topics. For example, last month, when the class was studying positive and negative integers, Harris used his Read More…
Headlines 2013-14: Virginia Beach staff in the news
Check out the following staff members who have authored or been featured in recent publications: Ed Gibbs, a fifth-grade teacher at Three Oaks Elementary, wrote a column for the News and Features section of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) web site. The ARRL is the national organization of ham radio operators. Gibbs is the Read More…
VB’s GRTs take over Alligator River Refuge
While on a weekend retreat to plan upcoming units, GRTs Amy Furlich (Corporate Landing), Terri Darnell (Thoroughgood), Terri Hawley (Trantwood) and Karen Reidelbach (Windsor Oaks) visited the Alligator River Wildlife Refuge as part of preparation for the third-grade Structures in Nature’s PBL, Red Wolf. They took lots of pictures and studied the exhibit. The ranger Read More…
Celebrating the spookier side of October
Several staff members got into the Halloween spirit for various school events and activities. Check out a few of them here: Tell your friends! Follow us!
