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School Mission

Veterans Elementary School promotes life-long learning by embracing its diversity, providing students with dynamic classroom experiences and exposing them to the cultural arts in a climate that is rigorous, safe, nuturing and respectful.

PDS Partnership

What is a PDS? A Professional Development School (PDS) is a collaboratively planned and implemented partnership for the academic and clinical preparation of interns and the continuous professional development of both school system and institution of higher education (IHE) faculty.  The focus of the PDS partnership is improved student performance through research-based teaching and learning.  A PDS may involve a single or multiple schools, school systems and IHEs and may take many forms to reflect specific partnership activities and approaches to improving both teacher education and PreK-12 schools. ~from Professional Development Schools:  An Implementation Manual, Spring 2003   About Our Partnership Since 2008-2009 school year, Veterans has started a new Early Childhood Professional Development School partnership with Towson University and Rockburn Elementary, with Gorman Crossing Elemenntary joining in 2014.  Our University Coordinator (IHE) is Lisa Mason.  Deirdre Kleinow (VES), Troy Hoffman (GCES) and Chrissie Lazarus (RES) will serve as PDS site liaisons facilitating communication and professional development opportunities between the university and school partners.   As a part of this partnership Rockburn Elementary, Veterans Elementary and Gorman Crossing Elementary will host student interns completing their early childhood field experiences.  Student interns will participate in a 3-semester field experience rotation.  In their first semester they will have a 1 day/week experience in PreK or Kindergarten.  The second semester (1 day/week) field experience will be in one of the primary grades (1-3).  During the final semester student interns will return to each of their previous mentors’ classes to complete student teaching.   For Additional information about the PDS program, see the following link:

PDS Glossary.pdf

Our Mission

The Towson / HCPSS Early Childhood PDS (Rockburn Elementary and Veterans Elementary) strives to use collaboration, clear goal setting, and effective communication to develop reflective thinking and best practice instruction that supports life long learning for all adult and child stakeholders.

 

Board of Education Representative

Howard County public schools are divided into school clusters, which are assigned to individual Board members to facilitate school visitations, attend special events, and provide a point of contact for each school community. View all BOE school cluster assignments.

VES BOE Representative: Sandra H. French