Step into modern living at Eisenhower Square in the heart of Carlyle and Eisenhower.
Space and convenience in the D.C. metro area are hard to imagine, let alone to find. Make your move now into this red-hot residential district just minutes from the future home of Amazon’s HQ2 campus in Crystal City/Future National Landing.
Life outside city limits can offer an urban feel with the added benefits of more green space, more square footage and more tranquility, all without sacrificing the excitement and accessibility of city life.
Spacious floor plans feature light-soaked open living areas, private bedroom retreats and rooftop terraces for entertaining under the stars. Designer-selected upgrades, floor-to-ceiling windows and GE Monogram appliances fill the 2,300+ square feet of living space.
For those on a shorter timeline, Eisenhower Square has several quick move-in options designed for buyers looking to move into their new dream home faster.
It is possible to live in the D.C. metro area, in a place you love, with the space you want and close to the places you need to be. Make the home your own when you choose from a wide selection of design options to reflect your life and style.
Visit Eisenhower Square to discover what luxury life in Alexandria is like, and all the space you’ll have to live it. Eisenhower Square is one of many communities built by Toll Brothers, the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes currently operating in 22 states nationwide.
With home designs starting in the $800,000’s, our community sales center is open Sunday and Monday 1-6 p.m. and Tuesday — Saturday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. to help you discover your dream home.
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School is excited to announce the January launch of its Juris Master (JM) Degree Program!
The JM Degree is designed for professionals who interact with lawyers and legal issues regularly in the course of their careers. This type of program is in high demand and now offered by over half of all tier one law schools.
“We are proud to offer the Juris Master Degree Program at Scalia Law School,” said Dean Henry N. Butler. “This is an opportunity for professionals to learn the law, so they will be better equipped to provide leadership in their respective fields.”
Scalia Law’s two-year part-time program is offered at the Arlington campus, and enrollment for the Fall 2019 class is currently OPEN.
As listed on the JM Degree website, https://jurismaster.gmu.edu/, in addition to general legal research, writing and introductory law courses, JM students can select law school courses from six concentration areas:
Criminal Justice
Employment & Labor Relations
Financial & Commercial Services
Government Contracts & Regulations
Intellectual Property & Technology
National Security, Cybersecurity & Information Privacy
JM students can maintain employment schedules, while benefiting from the opportunities afforded by a tier-one law school.
There is a growing base of legal services and legal knowledge required by employers and the JM Degree is designed to educate students with the legal knowledge necessary for them to succeed in their chosen professions.
Applications are being accepted now. For more information about the JM degree program, please visit our website or contact Jessica L. Sartorius, Director of Juris Master (JM) Degree Program, at [email protected] or 703-993-8418.
Virginia had more than 1,000 unfilled teaching positions in October 2017, according to former Virginia Department of Education Superintendent of Public Instruction, Steven R. Staples.
In 2018, the Commonwealth was still struggling with over 850 vacancies. Providing a diverse workforce in our schools is a necessity to support all learners. We can begin by being part of the solution by participating and engaging with practicing teachers about how we can all support the charge for a more diverse educational workforce.
Join us for a Panel on Diversity in the K-12 Teaching Workforce followed by a reception where you can mingle with the panelists, faculty and enrollment coordinators to learn more about M.Ed programs and gaining licensure at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 11 at Marymount’s Ballston campus, 1000 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, Virginia in the auditorium on the first floor. Refreshments will be provided.
In response to this shortage, Marymount University is expanding its education programs for those interested in seeking a pathway to the teaching profession. Our mission is central to meeting the needs of the community while fulfilling the dreams of newcomers and career-switchers that want to make a positive difference in the lives of children.
After our panel, feel free to talk with current MU and alumni about our teacher education programs. We will also be providing a short information session with an admissions team member to answer questions about applying to Marymount’s M.Ed programs after the panel discussion.
Marymount’s Education programs include:
A four-year bachelor’s degree with VA teaching licensure
A fast-track, full-time, one-year Professional Development Master’s program leading to licensure
A part-time, self-paced Master’s program, leading to licensure
A weekend cohort Master’s program leading to licensure in 18 months
Certificate programs (15 credits) in Special Education, English as a Second Language and/or STEM that provides the foundation to teach on a provisional license
For more information about these programs, please join us on April 11 at 6 p.m. Parking at Marymount’s Ballston Center is free for guests at this event.
If you are unable to attend and would like information about our various programs leading to licensure, please contact Graduate Enrollment Services at 703-284-5901 or [email protected].
Address: 1613 N. Harrison Street Neighborhood: Tara/Leeway Heights Listed: $975,000 Open: Saturday, March 30 and Sunday, March 31 from 1-4 p.m.
Walk to Westover Village from classic colonial nestled on an 8,500 square foot lot in the popular Tara neighborhood.
With the dining room open to both the kitchen and sunroom, the home provides excellent flow for daily living and entertaining. Doors from the sunroom lead to the private yard and patio while the carport is accessed from the kitchen door. The well-designed, renovated kitchen provides abundant storage in the cream colored cabinets and stainless appliances.
Just off the kitchen is a den with a bathroom that is ideal for guests. Upstairs there are three unusually large bedrooms and two renovated bathrooms. Wood floors on both levels enhance the warmth and character of the home. The focal point of the living room is the gas fireplace, flanked by windows and the room accommodates several seating areas.
The lower level rec room has a tile floor and is brightened by recessed lighting. A full bathroom on this level allows the room to double as guest space or a spot for sleepovers. Schools are McKinley Elementary, Swanson Middle School and Yorktown High School.
The location is ideal for commuting and many destinations are nearby. The bike path is a block away as is the large Lacey Woods Park and Walnut Hill Park. At Westover, the library, farmers market, shops and restaurants are very popular. The larger Lee-Harrison Center is also within walking distance and has two grocery stores, and a variety of shops and services.
Easy access to Crystal and Pentagon Cities, airport, Pentagon, Rosslyn-Ballston Business Corridor, Fort Myer and Foreign Service Institute. Back road access to Tysons is a plus.
The home has a recent roof, renovated kitchen and baths, fresh paint and even the ducts have been cleaned. The home is in pristine condition and awaits a savvy new owner.
Listed by: Betsy Twigg
Associate Broker, Licensed in Virginia
McEnearney Associates
4720 Lee Highway
Arlington, Va 22207
703-967-4391 [email protected] betsytwigg.com
WHAT: Rosslyn CAFÉ — Photography exhibit & local distillery tasting WHERE: Bennett Park Art Atrium (1601 Clarendon Blvd) WHEN: Friday, March 29, 2019 6-8 p.m. MORE INFO: Rosslyn BID website
For most of the week, Birch Thomas goes to her 9-5 job as vice president of finance for a small company in Georgetown.
She loves the precision of numbers and balance sheets and is good at what she does, but her day job doesn’t define her. When Birch Thomas is really “on,” she’s out with her camera taking pictures.
Although this tenth-generation Arlingtonian grew up in a creative household — her mom is a pastel artist and photographer and her dad a sculptor — she never picked up a camera for more than the usual snapshot until about three years ago.
“I grew up with the camera around, and stopping on the side of the road on a family vacation to take a picture was a normal thing for my parents to do,” she says. “Around 2015, I found myself borrowing my mom’s camera all the time. I’d go on walks by myself taking pictures. I’d lose track of time, getting into the flow of it. I realized how much I enjoyed it.”
Over the past few years, Birch has gradually built up a small photography business on the side. She photographs food, weddings and other important moments in people’s lives. And she still goes on long walks with her camera, lending her unique perspective to D.C. landmarks, monuments and pieces of everyday life.
This Friday, March 29, Birch will have her first solo exhibition at Rosslyn CAFE, a four-week series of free community events every Friday evening hosted by the Rosslyn Business Improvement District (BID).
Taking place at the beautiful Bennett Park Art Atrium in Upper Rosslyn, Rosslyn CAFE introduces attendees to the work of new local artists each week, offering them the opportunity to purchase art while enjoying food, drinks and a festive atmosphere.
Birch will be selling unframed prints at Rosslyn CAFE in a variety of sizes, and if she doesn’t have exactly what people want on hand, they can order it at the event.
“I’m not all that concerned about selling,” she says. “Mostly, I just want people to experience my work and gain a greater appreciation for the beauty that surrounds us.”
Birch says taking pictures of people is a different process for her than capturing objects and places. Photographing people is more about developing a relationship and sense of trust so that others feel comfortable around her.
Currently, she’s in the midst of a documentary project photographing artists in their studios. It’s been an honor to be present with artists as they create, and to see how each person’s creative process is different.
When she’s out with her camera by herself, Birch shoots whatever catches her eye, aiming to depict something people see every day in a different light. For instance, one Sunday morning she stumbled upon a field of seemingly endless purple flowers with the Washington Monument and Capitol in the background. This is one of her favorite, unexpected photos.
Other times, though, she’s deliberate about what she wants to shoot, and will spend months planning and strategizing to take the photo she has in her mind.
“Photography gives me a feeling of satisfaction I’ve never felt with anything else and I’m grateful that I’ve found it as an outlet,” she says. “If I haven’t taken a good photograph in a while, I’ll feel out of balance, the way some people do when they don’t go to the gym or meditate. I never really found my thing until I started taking pictures.”
To learn more about Birch Thomas and her work, subscribe to the Rosslyn BID’s weekly email, which will feature a longer version of this piece later this week.
See Birch’s photography on her website and on Instagram. Click here to learn more about Rosslyn CAFE.
Mark your Calendars! DC Bike Ride is only a few weeks away.
Enjoy cruising through the streets of D.C. entirely car-free and at your own pace on May 18. This is your chance to be a tourist in your own city. DC Bike Ride offers the most exclusive sights, sounds and delicious bites along the course. Don’t forget to stop and snap a few pictures for Instagram along the way!
In case you needed even MORE reasons to be excited about the DC Bike Ride on May 18, we’re bringing you an exclusive deal that you can’t miss.
This year, DC Bike Ride is offering its lowest price EVER on bike and helmet rentals! Enjoy picking up your Cannondale bike and helmet at the starting line for just $12 at checkout. Say goodbye to the trouble of having to haul your own bike — Let DC Bike Ride take care of you instead.
And if that’s not enough, as a valued ARL Now member we’d like to offer you an exclusive discount. For a limited time only, use promo code ARLNOWPP and save $10 off standard registration. Hurry before this exclusive opportunity ends on March 31.
Mark your calendars for May 18 and let the fun times roll!
The Northern Virginia-based program now ranks as the top public university part-time MBA in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The report assessed more than 300 part-time MBA programs across the country on factors such as student quality, peer reputation and the ratio of part-time to full-time students.
“This marks the fifth consecutive year that the Evening MBA has featured in the top 20 programs nationwide,” said Dana K. Hansson, director of MBA programs. “We believe the faculty expertise and high level of flexibility we offer are key factors in continuing to attract high quality students to our program.”
The Evening MBA is one of three MBA programs offered by the Pamplin College of Business. With many shared courses and faculty, the Executive and Professional MBA program options offer a similar academic experience to the Evening program, but with alternate formats and locations to better serve a range of students.
“What we did at Virginia Tech a few years ago was to say that we really want to focus on the working professional — someone who wants to enhance their career or make a change in the direction of their career, but not at the expense of continuing to be a business professional,” says Pamplin Dean Robert Sumichrast. That allows those students to come into the classroom, he adds, “and use what they’ve learned as part of the experience of the MBA program.”
This commitment to serving part-time students contributed to Virginia Tech’s highest ever overall score in the ranking. Another contributing factor was a strong appraisal by other programs.
“We’re particularly proud of the peer assessment score given the high quality of other programs in the nation,” said Dr. Parviz Ghandforoush, associate dean for graduate programs at Pamplin. “In part, we believe the high rating is due to our commitment to offering cutting-edge courses in areas like innovation and entrepreneurship, machine learning/AI and cybersecurity that aren’t available to students in more traditional MBA programs.”
According to the National Science Board, in 2018, boys and girls scored similarly on math and science in elementary, middle and high school, and women graduated with 50% of the bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering.
So why is it that women remain vastly underrepresented in the STEM workforce?
In greater Crystal City (also known as National Landing), more than half the workforce has a background in STEM, and tech companies both large and small call Crystal City home.
The panel, moderated by Erica Pandey, e-commerce reporter at Axios, includes representatives from across the scope of STEM careers:
Rachel Golden Kroner, Social Scientist — Environmental Governance and Impacts at The Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, leads Conservation International’s work on environmental governance and protected areas, conducting research to inform evidence-based policy.
Hana Hassen, an Alumna of Year Up, is an Enterprise Software Engineer at Capital One and a member of the Year Up Alumni Board.
Carol O’Donnell, Director of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, a unit of the Smithsonian Institution that is dedicated to transforming the learning and teaching of science throughout the nation and world.
Lena Trudeau, CEO of U.Group, led Amazon Web Services Public Sector’s global expansion before joining Bytecubed in advance of their merge with CHIEF to become U.Group.
At Capital Women’s Care Division 67 we are proud to have an innovative and dynamic collaborative practice featuring three Obstetrician-Gynecologists (OB-GYNs) and a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM).
Our providers offer top of the line care for all your obstetrical and gynecological needs. With our state of the art Mona Lisa Touch laser system, we can help you feel like yourself again. If you are looking for contraceptive counseling, preconception counseling or pregnancy care needs you’ll be happy to be part of a small, private practice where you aren’t just a number.
Our healthcare providers boast over 44 years of experience. We are experts in PCOS management, minimally invasive hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgeries for a variety of complex gynecologic needs and high-risk pregnancies.
With your first phone call for an appointment, to our warm and welcoming front desk staff, brilliant administrative team and board certified healthcare professionals we nurture the spirit of caring for every woman. We are now proud to offer 3D ultrasonography, with a keepsake take home DVD.
We are conveniently located in the heart of downtown Arlington, walking distance from both the Ballston and Virginia Square Metro Stations. We have appointment availability with all four of our healthcare providers and even offer early morning appointments for your convenience.
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Popular program options for working professionals include MOOCs, coding bootcamps, technical certifications and master’s degrees. The question is which one to choose.
MOOCs — massive, open, online courses — let students audit courses online, at no charge, through well-known universities. Students may also participate in paid versions of the course, which add graded assignments, extra support and a certificate for successful completion.
Coding bootcamps vary widely in their duration, format and cost, but all have a similar goal: to help students ramp up quickly on coding skills, especially web and mobile development.
Technical certifications are credentials that show people have passed a test and, in some cases, worked in a given job for a set period of time. These can be inexpensive to attain, if the student is willing to do self-study. However, they’re of limited duration; when the technology is updated, the certification needs to be updated, too.
Then there’s the master’s degree:
It’s only available through institutions that have gone through an accrediting process to prove the quality of their instructors and courses.
In the leading schools, faculty have practical experience in the subject and bring cutting-edge information to their students.
The program generally includes a community of alumni with deep connections and support.
The online Master of Information Technology, offered by Virginia Tech, adds an additional benefit: It has been jointly developed by faculty from both business and engineering, which means it can strike that sweet spot of “technical and soft skills” that employers truly value, notes Sumichrast. The combination, he says, “makes for a really well-rounded student coming out of the program.”
So how do you choose a program? Sumichrast recommends looking at the context in which you’re operating. “If you’ve already got a degree in the field that you’re trying to update, then maybe a single course, such as a MOOC, could give you a narrow update on what you already know.”
“These are personal decisions,” Sumichrast advises. “Find the education that best fits you. For many students that means one that puts the facts that you learn in context and that approaches problems from different directions so that you can have a more coherent whole when you finish.”
Address: 1805 Crystal Drive #317S Neighborhood: Crystal City Listed: $580,000
Located in the heart of Amazon’s National Landing, this tastefully renovated 855 square foot one bedroom, one bath condo has two garage parking spaces and extra storage.
The Kitchen features Crystal Current cabinets in “Simply White,” and “Black Pearl,” leathered granite countertops, KitchenAid, Bosch and Miele appliances. Handscraped, engineered teak wood floors are in the living areas and complement the fresh, neutral decor. The appealing bathroom has a deep tub, crisp white tile with accent banding and exceptional storage in the vanity and two cabinets.
No new condos are in the plans for Crystal City’s redevelopment, and Crystal Park will continue as the premiere condominium in National Landing. The well-managed, pet free Crystal Park offers a concierge front desk, gathering space, gym and an outdoor pool surrounded by a sundeck with grills for al fresco dining.
Blocks to Crystal City Metro, shops, restaurants, services along Crystal Drive and 23rd Street. The nearby Mount Vernon trail and planned recreation and aquatics center at Long Bridge Park will enhance the neighborhood.
A pristine home in an enviable location awaits the savvy buyer.
Listed by: Betsy Twigg
Associate Broker, Licensed in Virginia
McEnearney Associates
4720 Lee Highway
Arlington, Va 22207
703-967-4391 [email protected] betsytwigg.com
