The College and Career Wing at T.C. Williams High School has been updated and renamed the Jack Taylor College and Career Wing, in honor of 25 years of generous donations to help T.C. Williams students pay for college. Watch highlights from the dedication ceremony.
Thursday night’s School Board meeting was full of recognitions, including the student poets laureate from MacArthur, Mount Vernon and T.C. Williams. There was also an important update on the plan to transition schools to outsourced operational services.
Charles Barrett first grader Riley Zwiselsberger and T.C. Williams junior Jonathan Morgan Petrini won Awards of Merit, placing them third in the U.S. at the National PTA’s Reflections arts contest. They are among only 200 winners from more than 300,000 entrants.
Today marks the start of Teacher Appreciation Week, that special time of year dedicated to showing teachers just how much they are valued by our school community. Join us as we celebrate them for their great work throughout the year, and see a special video from T.C. Williams Titans celebrating their favorite teachers.
Don’t miss two of our kindergartners trying to pronounce the word “strategic” and explaining why you should take the ACPS 2020 Survey. Bloopers included!
Phase two of the High School Project is gearing up as the school year winds down. Two teams will work in tandem: one designing the educational programming for the future high school and the other focused on capacity, building needs and site analysis.
On Thursday night, the Board discussed The High School Project, changes to walk zones for high school students, restorative practices and also honored our ACPS 2019 Teacher, Principal and Support Staffer of the Year.
April Rodgers, physical education teacher and founding staff member at Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School, has been recognized for her powerful commitment to teaching life skills in her physical education classes and for her key contributions in opening Alexandria’s newest school last fall.
Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School’s Rene Paschal has been named 2019 ACPS Principal of the Year.
ACPS is taking the next steps toward a solution for creating opportunities and expanding our programming at the high school level over the next five years. Just as our ’71 Titans led the way forward, students who now dream of a new high school experience are once again moving Alexandria into tomorrow.
ACPS is generating a pipeline of talented student scientists who are competing among the best. Learn about the pathways that are creating opportunities for students interested in pursuing STEM fields to thrive.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child who will be heading to kindergarten this fall, this information is for you. Kindergarten registration season starts next week. Are you ready?
Students who are part of the Sympatico music program at John Adams Elementary School performed their own original music at a public concert to celebrate Black History Month last week. Watch video of the performance by The Percussion Experience.
Kindergarten registration for the 2019-20 school year kicks off on April 3. Find out when your school is holding an open house or tour.
In our final article commemorating the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and Alexandria’s long journey to desegregation, we turn our attention to the community activism it took to made strides towards equity in Alexandria. Learn about the Secret Seven, a group of men resolved to end the systemic racism in Alexandria in the 1960s.