Outstanding educators
The new Renaissance Academy has many outstanding educators including Mrs. Amanda Ash, the Virginia Beach City Public Schools Teacher of the Year, Mr. Gabriel Wetmore, Virginia Beach Central Academy Teacher of the year, and many former teachers of the year from their respective schools.
Resources for teachers
The Teacher Forum Leadership Council in partnership with Virginia Beach City Public Schools has announced the continuation of the National Speaker Series open to teachers and administrators.
The first event for the 2009-2010 National Speaker Series features Dr. Tim Tyson speaking on ”An Irresistible Vision of Global Contribution” on Thursday, October 8, 2009, from 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m., at Landstown High School. Having participated in a Tim Tyson workshop, I recommend that you try to attend this event. His presentation will emphasize leveraging meaningfulness, significance, and the gift of contribution with the tools available to us; he will include a generous number of powerful, student-made examples. Dr. Tyson’s students have designed their digital media to be deeply moving and to convey a substantive message in a compelling way that calls for thought and action from everyone who experiences their work. They beg us all to rethink a mindset that underestimates the capacity in our children to have an international voice that can make our world a better place!
This exciting event is open to all VBCPS Teachers and Administrators. Register online at http://www.vbcps.com/ for the National Speaker Series: Tim Tyson (PROF 0083-09-001). Participants will earn 2 PDP points. Seats are limited; don’t miss your opportunity to see Dr. Tyson discuss his impressive work with students.
A little overwhelmed, but excited…
Most ITRT’s (Computer Resource Specialists in our district) are overwhelmed at the beginning of a school year, especially one in which almost all software has been updated — from Office 2003 to Office 2007, SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007, an old version of Pinnacle to Pinnacle 7 online and live for parental viewing, Read180 and SchoolNet with Outreach teacher Web pages, no more LANDesk and a new SCCM. In addition, we Renaissance Academy CRS’s are discovering something almost daily that needs to be installed, updated, created, or fixed as a result of combining schools to become the Renaissance Academy. Although overwhelming at times, it is an exciting endeavor; we are excited about our new school and are looking forward to the physical move at the end of 2009 to a new, innovative, green school. Come January, we look forward to welcoming all to our new facility at 5100 Cleveland Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23462.