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FEATURING: Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Patrick Murphy, George Mason University’s Dr. Deb Crawford, Marymount University’s Dr. Jeanne Matthews, and Arlington Economic Development’s Victor Hoskins.

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*Pre-recorded event. Questions no longer being accepted.*

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1:50 Overview of Amazon announcement
3:50 Arlington Public Schools crowding
5:47 Enrollment forecasts for APS
7:07 Higher ed impacts – George Mason U
8:22 Higher ed impacts – Marymount U
9:51 STEM education trends
11:32 New state investment in higher ed
13:03 New state investment in K-12
14:12 STEM education programs at APS
17:15 Integrating K-12 and higher ed STEM
19:35 Arlington Career Center programs
22:05 Encouraging diversity in the tech workforce
26:12 Campus/community relations
30:57 Meeting growing facility needs
32:48 “Indirect” job growth
36:05 Sufficient supply of trained workers
38:20 Potentially greater income disparity
39:23 Supporting small businesses
41:10 Final thoughts and takeaways

Excerpt from the March edition of County Board Wrap-Up featuring Board Chair Jay Fisette's discussion of the historic Stratford School

ATV's regular round up of news and notes. In this edition we celebrate Black History Month with a historic marker commemoration in Hall's Hill and the launching of Project DAPS, an online exhibit examining the history of school desegregation in Arlington and Virgina. Also, JFAC is having a series of roundtables in March which you can register to attend at commissions.arlingtonva.us

In this edition of County Board Wrap-Up, Board Chair Libby Garvey is joined by her colleague Christian Dorsey to talk about WMATA's "SafeTrack" project. They also discuss new development projects on Columbia Pike and in Ballston. Ms. Garvey addresses the Historic District designation for Stratford School, the acquisition of new land for parks, a restoration project getting underway in Four Mile Run, and a new Neighborhood Conservation plan for Long Branch neighborhood.

The County is holding a Community Snow Forum on Feb. 24 at Francis Scott Key Elementary to get your feedback on snow clean up efforts. Also, registration for Summer classes is beginning, the county offers free tax advice for low and moderate income residents, the annual Feel the Heritage celebration returns, and in this week's Street Beat we look at efforts to make the I66/Washington Blvd intersection work better and safer for everyone.

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The Arlington Public Schools and the Arlington Police Dept. urge all students to stay safe this holiday season.

Arlington County Board Chairman Jay Fisette discusses Arlington's public schools at the Board's annual organizational meeting, January 1, 2014.

Arlington County Superintendent Dr. Patrick Murphy, Assistant Superintendent of Facilities John Chadwick, and Wakefield High School Principal Christian Willmore lead us on a tour of the extraordinary renovations made at Wakefield HS over the summer.

Ashlawn Elementary School teacher Cynthia Power was looking for a way to volunteer in her community while spending time with her beloved dog Humphrey. What she found has become one of the most popular reading events in the Arlington County Library system: Paws to Read, the program where kids read to dogs.

The program is designed to help kids with their reading skills and their vocalization skills by spending time reading in a completely non-judgemental, non-corrective environment.

"Paws to Read is an amazing program." Cynthia explains, "Children reading aloud in a non-judgmental atmosphere builds their confidence and reading skills. Always having someone correct mispronunciations, lack of inflection, or skipped words, does not really inspire confidence. Parents and teachers often find it difficult to provide non-judgmental reading time for children. Dogs do it perfectly!"

All of the dogs are certified by People Animals Love (PAL) as Therapy Dogs and they are trained to be gentle around children. To learn more about PAL's work: http://www.peopleanimalslove.org/

For her efforts, Cynthia and Humphrey have been honored with an Outstanding Volunteer Award by the Arlington County Board. You can read more about Cynthia and Humphrey's work here: http://library.arlingtonva.us/2013/05/23/congratulations-to-humphrey/

And more about the Paws to Read program, including upcoming Paws to Read events at the Arlington County Library website, here: http://library.arlingtonva.us/events/kids-events/paws-to-read/

Today 1 in 3 children in America is considered obese. That's why it's important for us to find fun and innovative ways to kids to move more. The Arlington County Parks & Recreation Department is finding lots of ways to help kids age into activity. Arlington TV's Katie Sweeney drops in at Walter Reed Community Center to see what they're doing to help kids get fit. There, Jamal Jones, Director of After School Programs at Walter Reed, lets us join a class helping kids train for the upcoming Turtle Trot 5K. Katie makes a few friends with the kids, and later they get a visit from the Chairman of the Arlington County Board, J. Walter Tejada. Mr Tejada, an avid sportsman himself, has long made Fit Arlington one of his core policy objectives on the Board.

Of course the Turtle Trot training was just one of the many many programs that Parks and Rec has for Arlington's kids. To find out more and register for classes, go to www.arlingtonva.us/parks and click on "Kids."

Arlington County and George Washington University proudly celebrated the opening of Field #6 at Barcroft Park as an NCAA- level baseball stadium.

With added funding from GW, Arlington's first synthetic turf diamond field features new spectator seating, a pressbox, dugouts, bullpens, batting cages, a new entrance plaza and a renovated parking lot.

Field #6 is the Home of the GW Colonials, and provides Arlington's recreational youth baseball leagues with a near major-league experience.

For more information about sports and recreation in Arlington for all age groups and abilities, check the Parks and Recreation website at arlingtonva.us/dpr or call 703-228-3000.

Arlington County Manager Barbara Donnellan and Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Patrick Murphy sought community input at a joint forum on strategies for balancing the 2014 budget. Held at Washington-Lee High School, County and School officials listened to thoughts and concerns from area residents about ways to improve a substantial budget gap for the fiscal year, beginning on July 1, 2013.

Sandra just wanted to replace a pre-school playhouse but after meeting Nancy something special happened. This is the story of a serendipitous meeting between Educator Sandra Redmore and Landscape Designer Nancy Striniste and the partnership they have formed to help kids get outdoors and into nature's classroom.

Washington-Lee High School's Best Buddies Club received the James B. Hunter Human Rights Award in Arlington, VA on Dec. 13, 2012. Best Buddies Club is a student driven organization that bridges the social gap between students with and without intellectual or physical disabilities by creating true friendships and the acceptance of differences. Although just two years old, the club has been named one of its best chapters by Best Buddies International. Best Buddies, founded in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, today has chapters in 1,500 schools across the globe. The Washington-Lee chapter holds events throughout the year that offer a safe place for everyone to enjoy the benefits of being a High School student. The James B. Hunter Human Rights Award is sponsored by the Arlington Human Rights Commission.

Wakefield High School Project Upstanders received James B. Hunter Human Rights Award on Dec. 13, 2012. Project Upstanders is a youth group that stands against bullying and protects the rights and dignity of fellow students. More than 125 Wakefield students have undergone intensive, day-long training to learn positive pro-social skills they use to combat bullying, harassing, stereotypical and prejudicial behavior among their peers. The James B. Hunter Human Rights Awards are sponsored by the Arlington County Human Rights Commission.

This edition of Artscape checks in with one of the new Creative Camps being offered at Artisphere. Education Director Lisa Marie Thalhammer introduces us to the new education offerings at Artisphere for teens and adults, including a class on filming Shakespeare!
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NewsMakers covers the rededication of the renovated Yorktown Swimming Pool, available for use by Arlington students and residents.

Lose the Training Wheels is an extraordinary camp that teaches children with cognitive and developmental disabiltilies to ride bicycles through an ingenious series of rollers, sponsored by Arlington County's Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources department. The results are stirring. Come celebrate with these kids, their volunteer helpers, and their parents.

The death of a neighbor from breast cancer inspires an 8th grade girl to do all she can to stop the disease and raise awareness of it. Jacqui is a normal teenage girl whose drive to make a difference in the world will inspire you.

Native Arlingtonian Kenny James remembers his school days in Arlington and the effect that busing and Arlington's response to Brown v. Board of Education had on the quality of his education. Part of the Tell Arlington's Story initiative. Taped at the Multigenerational African-American Storytelling Workshop. www.arlingtonstory.us

Native Arlingtonian Kenny James remembers his school days in Arlington and the effect that busing and Arlington's response to Brown v. Board of Education had on the quality of his education. Part of the Tell Arlington's Story initiative. Taped at the Multigenerational African-American Storytelling Workshop. www.arlingtonstory.us

In this latest episode of Tell Arlington's Story, Mattie Walker talks about segregation and child rearing in Arlington VA in the 1930s.

Tell Arlington's Story is an initiative to document Arlington's rich heritage through the collection of residents' stories. In this clip, filmed at the Multi-generational African-American Storytelling Workshop at the Arlington Central Library, Mattie Walker talks about Arlington when it was a farm community and her early school days. For more information about this project, go to http://arlingtonstory.us.

A story on Arlington's Sister City partnerships around the world, including our newest partner: Ivano-Frankivsk in the Ukraine.

Cuentos y Más, or Stories and More, is a bilingual storytime show. Children and adults can enjoy the stories while learning English and Spanish. Each episode features 2 stories read or told in the studio and on location in Arlington County VA. In this episode Mariela visits a bilingual school.

Cuentos y Más, o Stories and More, es un programa bilingüe de cuentos. Niños y adultos pueden disfrutar no solo de los cuentos, sino que también pueden aprender inglés y español. Cada episodio incluye dos historias: una leída o contada en el estudio, y la otra en la comunidad del condado de Arlington, Virginia.

In this segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now" we visit Phoenix Bikes and get a lesson in bike repair.

A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", "Artscape" takes a look at all things cultural around Arlington. In this episode, we look at an innovative education program run by Signature Theatre, which gives Wakefield High School students, the acting opportunity of a lifetime.

The Arlington Children And Nature Network (CANN), Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment (ACE), Potomac Overlook Regional Park, and WalkArlington invite you to TOUCH THE EARTH with your feet by joining School Board Chair Sally Baird on a Walkabout of Potomac Overlook Regional Park. Part of CANN's Touch the Earth Celebration marking the conclusion of Get Outside Week and the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the kid-sized Walkabout will take children of all ages on a short guided hike on the Park's Heritage Trail.

The people and places making news in Arlington County, VA

A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now" "Green It" looks at the various ways Arlington County works to be at the forefront of sustainable environmental policies. In this segment, we travel to Potomac Overlook Park for a look at their newest project in energy education -- The Energerium!

A segment of our magazine show, "Here/now", "Know Your..." provides a behind the scenes look at how our county government actually works. In this episode, we meet the new Superintendent of Arlington Public Schools, Dr. Patrick Murphy.

President Obama gave a speech to encourage students to take responsibility for their education at
Wakefield High School in Arlington Virginia. The speech was broadcast to schools National TV around the US.
Arlington Virginia Network were also there to record the historic event.

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NewsMakers; Looking at the progression of construction and the programs offered in the new Westover Library/Reed School in Arlington County

This special segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", features Director of Arlington County Library Diane Kresh and a host of Arlington high school students interviewing Jeffrey Toobin, author of this year's Arlington Reads book: "The Nine."

A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", "We're All Arlington" features short biographies of Arlington residents, highlighting our county's amazing diversity. This episode's subjects are college student Nhu-Y Ngoc Tu and her younger brother Cuong Chi Tu, who volunteer to help tutor neighborhood school children at the Greenbrier Learning Center.

Interviews with Arlington VA kids who have emigrated to the U.S. from other countries.

A segment from the NewsMakers program produced by Arlington Virginia Network featuring the Town Hall Meeting on Preventing Violence and Gang Involvement that took place at Kenmore Middle School in February 2008.

A segment from the NewsMakers program produced by Arlington Virginia Network featuring The Scholastic Art Award Exhibition at Arlington Central Library.