As student-athletes return to preseason conditioning for Virginia High School League athletics, specific protocols with social distancing and keeping groups of people apart will mean that high school fields and tracks may need to be closed off while participation and set-up/take down are taking place. As within traditional athletics seasons, this may result in access to certain facilities and sites being unavailable to the general public at times where schools are utilizing these areas. Times and dates are site specific. High School Track Closures for Athletic Conditioning High School Conditioning Days Times Closed L.C. Bird High Monday-Thursday 3-7 p.m. Clover…
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CALL CENTER FOR FIRST COHORT FAMILIES Chesterfield County Public Schools is ready to greet certain Level 2 special education students previously identified as eligible to return on Sept. 29. As these students return, the Department of Special Education will open a call center for these Cohort No. 1 families to answer questions and help provide an extra layer of support. The Cohort No. 1 Call Center will be open Tuesday- Friday from 7 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Chesterfield County Public Schools families can call 804-639-8787 for support. Support is available in other languages as well. Specific questions about a Cohort No.…
Career Changers Job Fair Chesterfield County Public Schools will host a virtual Career Changers Job Fair information session on Friday, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. This event is designed for community members who may be interested in pursuing a career in education. This is not an open invitation event, so participants will need to register for this information session. A bachelor’s degree with uploaded college transcripts is required to be considered. Register at https://tinyurl.com/yyknqe6e today to be invited. Substitute Job Fair Chesterfield County Public Schools is building its substitute pool for the 2020-21 school year. There will be a virtual…
There was no wearing of new outfits and carrying a backpack full of school supplies, no running to the bus stop, no tears from parents waving their sons and daughters off to their first day of school, and no face-to-face greetings to friends and teachers they hadn’t seen all summer. The 2020-21 school year is the year of the pandemic and like many school systems, Chesterfield County Public Schools opened with online classes. More than 58,000 students in 62 schools – 38 elementary schools, 12 middle schools, 11 high schools, and a technical center – signed on to their Chromebooks…
The Cameron Foundation has announced a new COVID-related grant program to assist area school systems with safely “reopening” their schools and further closing the “digital divide” for more than 32,500 students in the region. In its August meeting, the foundation’s board of directors approved up to $350,000 in new funding to mitigate COVID-related expenses in the 2020-21 academic year with the creation of the Schools Reopening Grant Program. This new commitment builds on the foundation’s previous awards totaling $314,355 in emergency funding to school systems in the spring, when traditional classes came to a halt due to the lockdown. Recipients…
Allison Becker
Watching the growth of her students from the beginning of the school year to the end is very rewarding for Alison Becker. Becker, is a first grade teacher at Salem Church Elementary School and has been an educator for five years. Becker taught pre-K in Georgia for her first two years as a teacher, then second and third when she moved to the area.For the upcoming school year, she will be teaching first grade. She said working in different grade levels helped her to grow and stay current in education, and she mentioned her fondness for second graders. “Second grade…
Falling Creek elementary teacher Sonia Winnegan is over the moon and honored to be representing the school as Teacher of the Year. Winnegan has been teaching for seven years, spending five years at Falling Creek and two at G.H. Reid elementary. She has a bachelor’s in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in elementary education from VCU, andshe attended the University of Richmond for her teaching credentials. Winnegan got the spark for teaching when she was in elementary school and she used to play teacher to her younger sister, who then learned how to speak English by the time she started…
Heather Russell
When the Chesterfield County School Board announced a virtual start for the 2020-2021 school year, Heather Russell was excited for the challenge. The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathmatics) teacher immediately started seeking donations to put together engineering STEAM take home bags for every student at Ecoff Elementary, which they will contain consumable building supplies and a STEAM journal for students to complete the first nine weeks of school. Russell has been a teacher at Ecoff for nine years and in her four years as a STEAM teacher she created STEAMtastic Academy, Ecoff’s first before school program, it won the…
With health and safety in mind, John Tyler Community College is offering a fall class schedule that gives students options. The schedule includes; classes offered fully online; courses that combine in-person and online instruction; and a limited number of on-campus classes. These course options are designed to give students flexibility, whether they are attending college for the first time, continuing their college education, or working on new career goals. Tyler’s full schedule of fall classes may be found at www.jtcc.edu/schedule, and it includes the following course options: • Classes that will meet on Zoom on specific days and times. These…
During a June 23 work session, Chesterfield County Public Schools board members heard about six options for reopening schools on Sept. 8 and 9. The first option – a normal five-day week – can’t be accomplished, deputy superintendent Thomas Taylor said at the virtual meeting. Option 6 involves all-virtual, or online, learning. Even if the school board selects another option – the rest of which involve in-school instruction one to three days a week – parents could still decide for their student to learn online, superintendent Merv Daugherty said. Although the board typically does not have a meeting in July,…