Genesis Academy Holds Court at a Local Campus
Lynchburg’s Presbyterian Home has a long sporting history on its 160-acre campus. In the early 20th century, its “Shoeless Wonders”—called such because they played barefoot—dominated the city’s...
View ArticleSylvan Learning Center: Offering Educational Aid That “Makes a Difference”
Three bright orange words are scrawled across the back wall of the Sylvan Learning Center of Lynchburg on Timberlake Road, reflecting the mantra of the center: Celebrate, Achievement, Confidence. The...
View ArticleNew Program Offers Lynchburg City Students a Jump on College Education
Academically-focused and ambitious high schoolers in the City of Lynchburg will soon be able to get a jump on their college education while also earning their high school diploma. In September, the...
View ArticleMontessori Children’s House: “Creating The Ideal Learning Environment”
What is the ideal learning environment for a child? For Tiffany Otwell, owner, operator and director of the new Montessori Children’s House on Hill Street in Lynchburg, she believes Montessori...
View ArticleNew Technology at Rivermont School-Lynchburg Encourages Interactive Learning
With the new technology Rivermont School-Lynchburg classrooms recently received, 2013 has a bright outlook. After all, 2012 didn’t end quite as expected for the school for students with special needs....
View ArticleIn Response to Newtown: How Local School Administrators Plan to Keep Our...
When he first heard about what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012—that 20 first-grade students and six educators had been killed by a gunman—the...
View ArticleHome Front Educators: Holding Down the Fort One Family at a Time
There is a growing trend in education, and it’s nothing novel, alternative or fashionable. It’s a tried and true approach employed for centuries across the globe—parents teaching their own children....
View ArticleE.C. Glass High School Honored for 100 years of Continuous Accreditation
Lynchburg City schools have a mission—“every child, by name and by need, to graduation.” Engrained in this approach is the city’s commitment to quality education and continual improvement that has...
View ArticleFrom the Ground Up: Bedford Area Master Gardeners Entwine Technology with...
Many career experts have asked this question over the years to those seeking their passion: What would you do if you didn’t have to make money? For the Bedford Area Master Gardeners, the answer would...
View ArticleKeeping Sites Safe: Local Colleges Offer Degrees in Cybersecurity
Progress begets opportunity. Opportunity is the impetus propelling us from the horse and buggy to the electric car. On a little darker note, it also induces the sticky-fingered pickpocket to evolve...
View Article110 years later, Lynchburg College has no trouble with the curve
For 110 years, Lynchburg College (LC) has been ahead of its own curve. Defined by LC founder Dr. Josephus Hopwood, the 214-acre campus master plan is based on an elliptical concept that symbolically...
View ArticleAre Entrepreneurs Born or Made? Region 2000 and local colleges are working to...
By nature, entrepreneurship is tough to quantify. Successful entrepreneurs combine diverse intangibles in a tossed salad that offers no easy explanation or simple understanding. Knowledge, guile and...
View ArticlePrincipal Promotion–New Year, New Leadership at Lynchburg City Schools
Lynchburg City Schools (LCS) opened the new school year August 26 with several new faces in key management positions. Five new principals—two in elementary schools, two in middle schools and one in...
View ArticleA Page-Turning Performance: Local Opera and Literacy Nonprofits Team Up to...
The written word enters through your eyes and sets framework for the theatre of the mind. Opera insinuates one’s ears, adding substance to visual theatre. It is rare to be able to compare subject...
View ArticleWordWorks! transforms old 5th street gas station into literary hangout
Lynchburg’s 5th Street can be a sore subject for some locals. Many do not consider it one of the safer parts of town, and the inconvenience of the evidently eternal roadwork near the Main Street...
View ArticleBeacon of Hope Aims to Raise College Attendance in Central Virginia
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 66 percent of our nation’s high school graduates attended college last year. In Lynchburg, that number is almost 10 percent lower, at 57 percent. Neither...
View ArticleHooked on NOOKs! Holy Cross Regional Catholic School blends book power with...
Idle hands are no longer a problem at Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, as NOOKs and other advancing technology were introduced to the students during the 2013-2014 school year. In the past,...
View ArticleCinematic arts program at Liberty University continues to expand
With a goal to provide students abstract and practical experience using world-class technology, the Cinematic Arts, Zaki Gordon Center at Liberty University continues to rapidly expand, immersing...
View ArticleArt & SOLs Team Up at Randolph College’s Maier Museum of Art
Randolph College is home to Lynchburg’s nationally-recognized art museum. Since 1920, the Maier Museum of Art on the college’s campus has collected art by notable and outstanding American artists from...
View ArticleThe Motherhood Collective: A Dream that Gave Birth to a Wealth of Resources...
Much like birth, dreams are often born out of a season of growth. For Lauren Barnes, Executive Director of a Central Virginia nonprofit, The Motherhood Collective, the dream that was conceived out of a...
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