C.A.R.E. Team
Price’s Fork Elementary School began involving the community in our Continuous
School Improvement Process at Price’s Fork in December, 1999. This group
was charged with creating a vision/mission statement, developing goals, and
providing input for the biennial school plan. The vision statement is reviewed
on an annual basis. Our original facilitator team for the Continuous School
Improvement process that was trained in August, 1999, included Kelly Linkenhoker,
Beth MacDonald, Kelly Pleasant, and Dollie Cottrill. The CIP team at Price’s
Fork was named the Community Aspiring to Reconnect Everyone (CARE) TEAM. A new
team was formed during the 2001-02 school year and began to work together to
develop goals for the next biennial plan. Mindi Walker, Charlie Fox, and Leslie
Roberson were trained as facilitators that school year. As a basis to the development
of new goals for the school, the members of the CARE TEAM, parents, teachers,
and students were all surveyed to determine the areas of needed focus. The new
team which began meeting in January of 2002 includes the following members:
~ Jimmie Lee Price (minister, descendant of the original Price family, member
of the Mt. Zion community)
~ Bill Brown (Chief of Police in Blacksburg, grandparent, member of the Wake
Forest community)
~ Wilmoth O’Dell (volunteer, local business person, former parent whose
children are in their twenties)
~ Angie Roberts (parent of a child in BMS, parent of a child who is a second
grader at Price’s Fork, member of the Norris Run community)
~ Karen Fabrie (mentor from VA Tech graduate intern model; reading teacher with
the Roanoke County School System)
~ Kim Davis (parent of a sixth grader at BMS, parent of a first grader at PFES)
~ Kelly Linkenhoker (former first grade teacher at PFES who is currently an
at-home mom, facilitator trained in 1999)
~ Mindi Walker (first grade teacher at PFES, facilitator trained in 2001-02)
~ Leslie Roberson (physical education teacher at PFES and Kipps, parent of a
first grader at PFES)
~ Eric Ruppert (parent of a second grader at PF, parent of a child who will
be in kindergarten in the 2005-06 school year)
~ Amy Ruppert (parent of a second grader at PF, parent of a child who will be
in kindergarten in the 2005-06 school year, kindergarten teacher at Kipps)
~ Dan Berenato (director of facilities for MCPS)
~ Lorrie Sprague (fifth grade teacher at PFES)
~ Ann Potts (assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning
at VT, coordinator of graduate interns from VT, member of Clinical Faculty)
~ Larry Elkins (third grade teacher at PF)
~ Colleen Prosser (parent of a second grader at PF, parent of a child who will
enter kindergarten during the 2005-06 school year; seventh grade teacher at
BMS)
~ Wendy Byers (supervisor of special education student teachers from Radford
University)
~ Will Rosenfeld (kindergarten teacher at PFES, MCEA representative)
~ Rose Norris (parent of a fourth and a second grader at PF)
~ Carol Bland (first grade teacher at PF)
~ Steve Graham (former student at PF, parent of a fourth and first grader at
PF)
~ Dottie Brown (instructional assistant at PF)
~Dollie Cottrill (principal)
A new CARE TEAM will be forming soon.