When second-grade teacher Kristen Bateman walks the halls of Glen Allen Elementary every day, she sees that some things have changed since she was an elementary student herself – a bigger building, new additions – but a lot has stayed the same after all of those years. “You still have the sense
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This year, June Degenhardt will celebrate the end of a 33-year career teaching elementary school students. “I am retiring from teaching with a full heart and many special memories,” she said. Degenhardt’s recommender wrote about her remarkable ability to understand and engage with her students. “Mrs. Degenhardt gives her
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Henrico Schools officials have reported 22 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 18 schools and school facilities since Jan. 4. Most were reported among people last inside buildings Dec. 18, the last day before winter break. Only two involved people in a building later than that (in both cases Dec. 22)
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The school system’s official enrollment as of Sept. 30 – 48,982 – was just about 140 students more than the unofficial count it released Sept. 21 and represents a decline of just more than 1,400 students from last year, according to data that will be presented to the Henrico
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You might say that Becky Birckhead knows how to connect with her students at Glen Allen Elementary School. She has to. Birckhead, an exceptional education teacher, works with deaf and hard of hearing students at the school’s D/HH zone program. Her students come from throughout the county to
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