Talk about your morning announcements! At Diamond Springs Elementary School, Math Specialist Katie Kuhn uses the televised morning announcements to sneak in some quick math strategies to help students during the day. Not only does she help engage their thinking first thing in the morning, the students are enthralled by Kuhn’s mini-lessons. Tell your friends! Follow Read More…
What’s Cool in the Schools
Fairfield holds book tasting
Fairfield library staff made good use of its recent staff day and hosted a “Book Tasting” for the rest of Fairfield’s employees. Teachers were treated to refreshments and a couple hours of browsing – or tasting – professional library materials and new children’s books. A record number of items were checked out by teachers that Read More…
Glenwood staff challenges students to ‘Reach Higher’
Staff at Glenwood Elementary School donned their college gear in support of The Reach Higher Initiative. The Reach Higher initiative is First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort to inspire every student in America to take charge of their future by completing their education past high school, whether at a professional training program, a community college, or a four-year college Read More…
Newtown shares Power of Video
Newtown teachers Geniece Hyman and Wendy Lyle sharing information from the Learning Forward Conference about the Power of Video in the classroom to improve teaching and student learning. Tell your friends! Follow us!
Pembroke Meadows hosts the ‘Soup’er Bowl
Pembroke Meadows staff celebrated the upcoming Super Bowl with their very own “souper” bowl! Staff members brought in crockpots of his/her favorite soup to share. Everyone had a chance to eat with others, and enjoy time together. Tell your friends! Follow us!
Duncan meets with VB language teachers
Greg Duncan, nationally renowned World Languages consultant, recently directed a two day workshop for Virginia Beach language teachers. Teachers worked to create and revise the citywide Annual Foreign Language Assessments of Performance (AFLAP) for all nine languages taught in the school division. Additionally, teams of teachers worked to develop the thematic unit curricula assessed by Read More…
VB teachers help lead VISTA training
Katie Vaughan of Princess Anne High School and Tracey Klotz from Renaissance Academy presented a session at the annual Virginia Association of Science Teachers (VAST) Professional Development Institute. They teamed up with teachers from across the region to present on using assessment strategies that focus on effective science instruction. We focused on both formal and Read More…
Co-teaching at Renaissance
This past summer, a few teachers from the social studies department at Renaissance Academy discussed the idea of incorporating the experiences from Dr. Steve Marable’s recent trip to Cyprus. Marable – an assistant principal at Renaissance – would be able to make the lesson more relevant to students through his travel there. Greg Moxley (a Read More…
Diller’s day at Diamond Springs
Debbie Diller, author and educational speaker, recently visited Diamond Springs Elementary School in order to share her expertise on literacy and math learning stations as well as creating learning spaces. See some of her visit in action below. Tell your friends! Follow us!
White Oaks Elementary is going 3-D
There is some new technology coming to White Oaks Elementary School. Fourth-grade teacher Jamie Smith and gifted resource teacher Adrienne Kravchak are busy assembling the new Makerbot 3-D printer that students will soon be using at White Oaks. Expect updates on all the ways White Oaks uses this new system. Tell your friends! Follow us! Read More…
