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ODU names Soccio Outstanding Graduate Student

Tammie Soccio, a library resource specialist at Glenwood Elementary, has been named the Oustanding Graduate Student in Library Science for the 2012-13 academic year from the Old Dominion University Darden College of Education. Congratulations! Tell your friends! Follow us!

Brewington named National Administrator’s Award winner

The Educational Theatre Association’s Governing Board has selected Virginia Beach City Public School’s Fine Arts Coordinator John Brewington as a recipient of the Educational Theatre Association’s National Administrator’s Award. Brewington is one of just three recipients of this award nationwide. Brewington has been with the division for 28 years, and has served as the Fine…

Glenwood makes Songs Of Learning for SOLs

At Glenwood, SOLs are not scary – and they have the songs to prove it. Music teacher Peggy Muse coordinates “Mighty Minds,” a musical and SOL motivational program, with the school’s third-grade teachers. Teachers and staff have roles of subjects in school, and they are dressed like superheroes in black capes with a separate principal…

Point O’View goes a little crazy for SCA

Point O’View Elementary’s SCA sponsored Crazy Hat/Hair Day at the school, and staff stepped up to the challenge. Check out these hair-raising pictures: Tell your friends! Follow us!

Fairfield turns up the H.E.A.T.

Fairfield Elementary School’s professional development theme is “Turning Up the H.E.A.T.” Taking that theme in stride, the men at Fairfield recently showed off their “smokin’ hot” cooking skills by preparing breakfast, including custom ordered omelets, Belgian waffles, and pancakes, for the entire school staff . Tell your friends! Follow us!

Zano up for “Live with Kelly & Michael” honors

*Update: Help us out! Rick Zano is a finalist! Voting is opening at 10 a.m. for the grand winner. Stop by livekellyandmichael.com to vote for Mr. Zano. Voting ends 3 p.m. on May 6! Help a fellow teacher out! Rick Zano, a social studies teacher at Princess Anne High School, is a semi-finalist in the…

‘Easter Bunny’ makes special delivery to Cooke staff

On the Staff Day, which happened to be the last day before Spring Break, Cooke teachers worked hard to complete third quarter report cards and prepare their classrooms for the fourth grading period. Then, they received a surprise knock on their classroom doors. The Easter Bunny (Principal Barbara Sessoms) and her helper (Assistant Principal Casey…

2014 Citywide Teacher of the Year Finalists named

The five finalists for the Virginia Beach City Public Schools’ 2014 Citywide Teacher of the Year were announced in an email from Superintendent James Merrill earlier this week. These finalists have been selected from all of the individual schools’ teachers of the year. The 2014 Citywide Teacher of the Year finalists are: Amy Abbott, gifted…

VBCPS “Meet & Greet” scheduled for April 29

The Sixth Annual “Meet & Greet” Event for eligible Voluntary and Priority Teacher Transfers, as well as eligible Classified Employees is scheduled for Monday, April 29 at Green Run High School from 4:30- 6 p.m. Tell your friends! Follow us!

Thalia celebrates massive food drive results

Thalia Elementary School held a fantastically successful food drive to benefit the SCA’s Beach Bag Collection Drive. In one week, the school brought in more than 3,500 food items to be donated to local students in need. To cheer on students and staff, principal Pam Pastros and assistant principal Peggy Simeone brought out their best…

Centerville raises Pennies for Patients

Pennies for Patients is a successful Centerville SCA campaign to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The three classes who raised the most money won the right for those teachers to cut the hair of volunteer staff members. The school raised more than $2200 and celebrated with a hair-raising event! …

Playing it up at Parkway

Parkway Elementary held its Student/Faculty basketball game last week – not only did staff dress out for the game, they also provided the spirit with their own cheerleading squad. More than 200 students, parents and faculty came out to the school to watch the game. Tell your friends! Follow us!

Bayside Elementary goes waaaay back in time for ‘Genre Week’

Bayside Elementary teachers got the chance to break out some of their most literary garb for the school’s “Genre Week.” Some teachers, such as Nisha Jain, Lisa Thorne, Catherine Malley and Lin Henkin, were well prepared for the theme as shown in their “historical fiction” attire. Tell your friends! Follow us!

75 years young

March 14 was a special day in the halls of Fairfield Elementary: Ms. Vaughan was turning 75. Vaughan, who has been with Virginia Beach Schools for 34 years and who has two daughters in education (Jennifer Thorpe, a second-grade teacher at Kempsville Elementary and Kimberly Ritter, a media specialist at Young Park Elementary in Norfolk)…

Windsor Oaks supports one of their own

Windsor Oaks Elementary teachers and staff wore pink to support retired teacher Debbie Delugo. While Delugo was unable to be at the school, she was given a copy of the pictures. Tell your friends! Follow us!

KMES spikes the competition

Kempsville Meadows Elementary School won the Virginia Beach Elementary Schools (VBES) Staff Volleyball Championship. Each year, elementary school employees across Virginia Beach organize and represent their schools in their own fun and competitive volleyball league from January to March. The school that finishes fourth place in the playoffs agrees to run the league the following…

Make new friends, but keep the old

In 1978, a group of 30 Girl Scouts – from various troops around the Hampton Roads area – took out for a trip of a lifetime. The Wider Opportunities program, which was sponsored by the now Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast, offered an “England Bound” trip, which sent local girl scouts for a three…

IPT assessment coming for fourth- and seventh-graders

Fourth- and seventh-grade teachers, be advised your students will soon be taking part in the spring administration of the Integrated Performance Task (IPT), a locally developed assessment modeled after the College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA) which is currently administered to 11th grade students in Virginia Beach. The IPT, a problem-based test designed to measure…

New and updated English, science and math SOLs available for viewing

The new Reading, Writing and Science Standards of Learning (SOL) tests are now available on the Virginia Department of Education website for viewing or downloading. Narrated demonstrations of the items from the new technology-enhanced Reading, Writing & Science SOL tests are now available on the SOL Practice Items page of the VDOE website. The narrated…

Summer school employment information available

If you are interested in summer school employment, please visit the Summer School Position Listing at http://www.vbschools.com/hr/summerschool/. There you will find information related to summer school. Listed below are this year’s summer school locations. Elementary Schools: Birdneck, Diamond Springs, Indian Lakes, New Castle, and Trantwood (Please note, for these locations, positions are being staffed for…