2022-03-01 Cathleen Drake-McGarvey for Presidential Award PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION # 2022-03-01
HONORING CATHLEEN DRAKE-MCGARVEY FOR PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
VIRGINIA: At the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors' ("Board") Business Meeting on March
15, 2022, the following Resolution was presented and adopted:
WHEREAS,Cathleen Drake-McGarvey("Drake-McGarvey"),a fifth(5th)-grade science teacher at Stony
Mill Elementary in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, was recognized by the White House and the National Science
Foundation with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching; and
WHEREAS, Drake-McGarvey received the presidential award for K-6 science; and
WHEREAS, this award, regarded as the nation's top honor for mathematics and science teachers,
recognizes teachers who develop and implement high-quality instructional programs that improve student
learning; and
WHEREAS, Drake-McGarvey has been an educator for more than twenty-three (23) years, with the last
eleven (11) at Stony Mill; and
WHEREAS,as a past Science Liaison, she delivers department communication and mentors other science
teachers, in addition to teaching four(4) science classes each day, and
WHEREAS,Drake-McGarvey works to advance computer science concepts and an engineering mindset
in her classroom by providing students with opportunities to problem solve. Students also practice citizen science
by monitoring a trail of bluebird nest boxes and by recycling paper, plastic, and composting plant waste
throughout the year; and
WHEREAS, she has served as a summer session Piedmont Regional Governor's School instructor for
children's engineering and worked on the Virginia School University Partnership to develop grade test bank items
and performance task bank items; and
WHEREAS, Drake-McGarvey earned a B.S. in Elementary Education from SUNY College at Old
Westbury in New York. She is also certified in pre-kindergarten through third(3rd)grade early/primary Education
and third (3rd) through sixth 96th) grade elementary. Finally, she is currently taking teacher leadership classes
through James Madison University.
BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board does hereby express its deepest congratulations and admiration to
Drake-McGarvey for her accomplishments and wish her the best in her ure endeavors.
Given under my hand this 15th day of March, 2022.
�-�`� William V. `Vic") Ingra (Chairman)
Pittsylvani ounty Boar Supervisors
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Clarence C. Monday (Interim ounty Administrator)
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