Tag: Charlottesville

  • Volunteer Opportunities at OLLI at U.Va.

    From the OLLI at U.Va. Email Newsletter, May 26, 2009: OLLI at U.Va. is indeed fortunate to have many of its original leaders still volunteering for OLLI.  They have worked long and hard the past eight years establishing a lifelong-learning institute in Charlottesville.  Their efforts have met with much success and present day OLLI members are benefiting greatly from their dedication.  Although these individuals intend to continue working for…

  • How Should Our City Schools Be Configured?

    Dave Norris writes: Tonight Tues., May 26, the Charlottesville City School system is hosting a Community Engagement Workshop to get feedback from the public on what changes, if any, should be made to the way our City schools are configured. For more info.: http://www.ccs.k12.va.us/community/CommunityEngagementPage.html The workshop will be held at Charlottesville High School from 6-9pm.…

  • The weather is great – time to get outdoors!

    Check out all the possibilities at Charlottesville Parks & Recreation and  Albemarle County Parks & Recreation.  There are lots of opportunities for walking, swimming, classes, and many other activities to fill up your summer leisure time.

  • New School Blogs

    As a result of our spring after-school Computer Club at Jackson-Via Elementary School, we now have two new blogs!  The first is the JV Jam Weblog, the blog produced by the JV Jam News Studio.  Jump for the Stars! presents an ePortfolio of Jackson-Via’s BEST. All Jackrabbits now have a chance to participate in weaving…

  • You can give the gift of lifelong learning to our children

    Lifelong learning, also known as LLL, is the “lifelong, lifewide, voluntary, and self-motivated”[1] pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. As such, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development, but also competitiveness and employability.[2] via Lifelong learning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The best way to learn something is…

  • Jackson-Via Elementary School earns national award

    “Jackson-Via Elementary is one of six schools in America to receive the Panasonic National School Change Award. Once considered under-performing, the Charlottesville school is now being praised for its achievement. …” Read full story on WVIR NBC29 website.