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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Two of Rappahannock CoQnty schools’ top teachers, Cindy Simpson and Patti Waddell, are at England’s Oxford University this week attending a conference on Educational Leadership and Ethics, School Superintendent Bob Chappell said Monday.
The annual trip is sponsored by Virginia Tech university for some 35 teachers and administrators around the state, Chappell said.
Chappell said he himself had attended the program several years ago.
Waddell, 49, the high school biology teacher, and Simpson, 43, a third grade teacher at the elementary school, were recommended by colleagues and selected by a committee including Chappell. The trip is paid for by Rappahannock County school funds, a Headwaters’ grant and private contributions.
Chappell said that Rappahannock is one of the few school systems that sends teachers as well as administrators to this program and this is the first year both slots went to teachers.
Waddell said, before she left, that it was “a once in a lifetime opportunity.” Chappell said the attendees stay in graduate school dormitories and eat in the famous Oxford dining halls. They are taken on visits to
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