Vance County Board of Education Committee Meeting Date: * Personnel Committee, Tuesday, August 5th, 8:30 am Note: All meetings are held in the Superintendent’s Conference Room.
Month: August 2014
VGCC Education Students complete afterschool training
Several Vance-Granville Community College students recently completed special training for afterschool program administrators and staff members. VGCC School-Age Education program head Jacquelin Heath incorporated the “Upping Your After School Game” course content into a curriculum course, School-Age Program Administration (EDU 263), this summer. Heath’s program offers an Associate in Applied Science degree and a diploma in School-Age Education, as well as a School-Age Care certificate. “Providing the North Carolina Afterschool Professional Development Competency Training allowed our curriculum students to receive …
Friday / Weekend Open Line
If you shop the cereal aisle in your supermarket, you’ll see dozens of brands on display, from the sugary and candy-like to high-fiber organic products. One of them has been available for well over 100 years. It was on this date in 1893 that a Denver restaurant owner, Henry Perky, received a patent for the creation shredded wheat. By 1901, he had set up an ultra-modern plant at Niagara Falls, called “the Palace of Light,” to make shredded wheat, and …