Education
Virginia teens who will start high school in the fall through graduating seniors are invited to register for the 2022 YOVASO Summer Leadership Retreat. Called “YOVASO Safari: Leading the Pack for Safe Teen Driving,” the retreat is being held at James Madison University, July 14 – 17. The four-day, three-night retreat offers a variety of…
Gov. Glenn Youngkin received the Department of Education’s report “Our Commitment to Virginians: High Expectations and Excellence for All Students.” The education report builds upon Governor Youngkin’s direction in Executive Order One issued on his first day in office. The Governor affirmed his guiding principles to address troubling data trends and outlined policy recommendations to…
Buta Biberaj, Loudoun County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney has announced that the office will hold its inaugural “Office of the Commonwealth Attorney’s Justice Academy”, June 23-July 28, weekly on Thursdays from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. This mission of the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Justice Academy is to create a partnership with the community through education and collaboration.…
Making a cup of coffee is a simple part of a morning routine, not typically something that would inspire an award-winning photograph steeped in culture and heritage. Yet for Purcellville resident and Foxcroft School junior Helen Ventikos, this came to be with her captivating piece, “Καφές/Coffee” or “Kafes” (Greek for coffee). Helen was recently awarded…
By Andrea Gaines Diane Painter is a member of an organization called VSTE – Virginia Society for Technology in Education, and a member of Makersmiths organization. She was recently nominated as a 2021 Outstanding Educator by Repowering Schools for her innovative approach to education. Painter helps lead an effort called KidWind, an official “Makerspace STEM…
Three 7th grade students at Blue Ridge Middle School—Sophie Hudziak, Julia Miller, and Liudmila Boyarskaya—have been selected by coding teacher Angela Fraser to compete in a technology camp where they will create a product or service designed to solve real-world problems. The elite camp is offered through Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education, the…
Blue Ridge Middle School 8th graders recently received Scholastic Achievement Awards and Creative Communications recognition to earn the school a Writing Achievement Award. The Scholastic Writing Awards (https://scholastic.com) is a prestigious program that recognizes the work of 7th through 12th graders in the United States. The awards have been in existence since 1923 and have…
It’s been a year of mighty big challenges for all of our high school students, but things are looking up, especially for Woodgrove High School’s theater students, who are performing the musical Oklahoma! this month. First, they have theater teacher Addie Schafer Benko to thank for her grant-writing talents in landing Wolf Trap funding for…
By Julie Alexander Ten Loudoun Valley High School seniors got a chance to don their Viking jerseys one last time as they took to the football field last week, months after a traditional season would normally commence. While the pandemic caused fall sports to be pushed to later in the school year, that did not…
Remember last March 13, the day the schools closed in Loudoun County? Who would have thought nearly a year would pass before Loudoun’s public school students could be back in a classroom—even if only two days a week, sitting six feet apart, and wearing masks? This March, it’s a different story. We’re springing forward, not…