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School Board of the City of Virginia Beach names Dr. Donald Robertson Jr. superintendent

The School Board of the City of Virginia Beach voted to name Dr. Donald Robertson Jr. as superintendent at its meeting Jan. 23. A native of Hampton Roads, Dr. Robertson began his career as a math teacher with Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) in 1988 and progressed in leadership roles including assistant principal of Bayside High School, principal of Salem High School, chief strategy and innovation officer, chief schools officer, chief of staff and acting superintendent. 

Logo Virginia Beach City Public Schools Charting the Course

Hundreds of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students will participate in the 16th Annual African American Male Summit on Jan. 20 at Frank W. Cox High School. Boys in grades six through 12 will share ideas with each other and with adult community members on topics such as student leadership, community involvement, relationship-building, and physical and mental well-being.

Kellam High School

In 2008, HBA was contracted to plan and design a replacement high school facility for one of the oldest high schools in Virginia Beach, Kellam High School. From the beginning, this new 2,000 student school was envisioned as a prototype for 21st century learning. We established four clear objectives that would define success for this project and guide the Owner, the users of the facility, the planning and design team, and other stakeholders toward achievement of a truly remarkable educational facility.

The new Kellam High School was designed as a “tool” for the delivery of problem- and project-based learning. It is an educational facility that has truly been designed from the inside out, planned to support and facilitate a new challenge-based learning curriculum focused on engaging students in their own learning, and collaboratively designed by the stakeholders who will benefit from its realization. The unique planning strategies and processes that the educational planning team designed and facilitated have created learning environments that directly respond to the needs of specific learning activities and learning styles, and these strategies and processes will serve as the model for how we go about planning and designing schools for the future.

In a sense, you could say that we have engaged the entire community in challenge-based learning opportunities that foster the acquisition of 21st century skills.