Beech Tree Elementary second grade teacher Nadya Abu-Rish is one of 15 teachers who met at a conference and have stayed in touch, sharing teaching strategies, advice and successes with each other. When one of the teachers in the group went to New York for that city’s marathon, Abu-Rish was one of the teachers who traveled to the city to support her colleague. An article in Scholastic’s On Our Minds stresses the importance of professional colleagues supporting each other at work and in their personal lives. The full story can be read at oomscholasticblog.com/post/educators-travel-thousands-miles-support-teacher-running-262

Neighbors Shape New Cavalier Trail Playground
The playground at Cavalier Trail Park is open again, and this time the neighbors who use it had a hand in what it looks like. The City of Falls Church



