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and Office Awards and Recognitions Providence Elementary School’s youth garden was recently selected as one of 25 such gardens nationwide to receive a 2009 “Bayer Advanced – Grow together with Roses” School Garden Award from the National Gardening Association. The school will receive 10 rose bushes from All-America Rose Selections. Princess Anne Elementary School students helped to raise more than $6,000 this year for the American Heart Association through their Jump Rope for Heart event. Since 1995, they have raised over $110,000 for the American Heart Association. "The Secret Garden" at Holland Elementary School recently had an Earth Day/Birthday Celebration. Now three years old, the Secret Garden is an outdoor nature center which provides students with opportunities to be young scientists. Students research living systems, life processes, earth patterns, cycles and changes in the natural world and then perform authentic environmental experiments. The garden provides motivating and exciting curricular connections through real, respectful, and thoughtful uses of resources. The garden features numerous learning opportunities with its series of gardens that feature individual grade-level raised beds and specific corners of interest, including butterfly, herb, woodland, memory, erosion, and conservation corners. In addition, the garden is complete with rain barrels and a compost bin. Holland’s school family and community garden partners share in the responsibility of maintaining and supporting the garden. Congratulations to Hermitage Elementary on receiving a Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF) award of $3,000. Hermitage will use the funding, which is a Toolbox for Education grant, for an Organic Garden Project initiated by first-grade teacher Sasha Gilson. Hermitage is one of more than 1,000 schools or parent organizations across the U.S. awarded a Toolbox for Education grant during the 2008-09 school year. Lowe’s provides the funding for school improvement projects benefiting K-12 public education. Princess Anne High School administered more than 1000 AP tests and 1224 International Baccalaureate tests during May, the highest number the school has ever given! Each year the Office of Technical and Career Education (TCE) names a student of the year in each of its five strands. This year, Salem High School is proud to announce that three of its students were named TCE Students of the Year in three of the five possible categories, Trade and Industrial, Marketing Education, and Business and Information Technology. Each student was awarded a $1,000 scholarship sponsored by the Virginia Beach Education Foundation. The Adult Learning Center is proud to announce that its GED® Recognition Ceremony was held on Thursday, May 7 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. The ALC honored 76 GED® graduates and had 100 percent participation! In attendance were Superintendent James Merrill and Deputy Superintendent Sheila Magula as well as School Board members Em Davis, Dan Lowe, and Patrick Salyer. Congratulations to Three Oaks Elementary students. They recently participated in Jump Rope for Heart during physical education class, raising $9,400 for the American Heart Association. In the four years since the school has been open, students have raised a total of $33,000. Students were also recently recognized by the Shamrock Marathon race directors for having the MOST students participate in their event. Three Oaks had 275 students participating in the Final Mile and the 8K run. This was the highest level of student participation in Hampton Roads. The runners raised $6,100 for Operation Smile. Pembroke Meadows Elementary staff and students completed another successful food drive for the Hampton Roads Food Bank. The school community collected over a 1,000 items to donate! Individual
Awards and Recognition Charles
Kinnison, technology education teacher at Salem High
School, Congratulations to Green Run Elementary assistant principal Tonya Rickman-Rogers on earning her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Green
Run Elementary would like to congratulate second-grade teacher
Congratulations to Maureen Stolte, a seventh-grade special education teacher at Brandon Middle School, on being selected to write for Pearson Higher Education books. She will be included in the High-Impact Teaching Strategies for the XYZ Era of Education. Congratulations to Princess Anne High School’s Teacher of the Month for March, biology teacher Camilla Walck, and Teacher of the Month for April, social studies teacher Eric Hammje. Congratulations to Nancy Pyatt, early childhood special education teacher at the Special Education Annex, on her acceptance to the Aspiring Special Education Leaders Academy, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Education. The Academy is designed to help prepare potential leaders for future administrative positions in special education. The VDOE accepted one application per school division for a total of 30 participants for the 2009-2010 cohort. All candidates involved in this very competitive process had to be endorsed by their division superintendent. Pyatt’s experiences and accomplishments in special education as well as her interest in and commitment to special education leadership make her an excellent choice for the Academy. Congratulations to art teacher Susan Carden and library media specialist Fran Scott who sponsored a Digital Art Club this semester at Bayside Middle School. The after-school activity introduced students to Wacom Bamboo drawing tablets and Adobe Photoshop software. Students created graphic art projects including mandalas, montages, posters for the new school store, and CD covers for a portfolio of their work. The club was also able to exchange work with a school in China, also called Bayside Middle School. Congratulations to Freda Pohrivchak, a distance learning Russian teacher based at Kellam High School. Several of her students recently won medals and commendations in the 2009 National Russian Essay Contest. The contest is sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. A total of 29 students were recognized from the following schools: Kellam, First Colonial, Green Run, Landstown, Ocean Lakes, Princess Anne, and Salem high schools. Congratulations to Technical and Career Education Center culinary arts teachers Chef Diana Golub and Chef Patrick Reed on having six of their students earn scholarships through the annual Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Cooking Competition. The students earned a total of $86,000 to such institutions as the Culinary Institute of Virginia, the Culinary Institute of America, and Monroe College. Green Run Elementary would like to congratulate office associate Nancy Linkous for receiving the PTA's Distinguished Educator Award. Congratulations to Salem High School science teacher Carol Ferris on being recognized as Teacher of the Month for April.
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