More than 400 top-performing students and their chaperones from 20 APS high schools attended the Westminster College Fair this week. The event is the result of Westminster School and APS’ formal collaboration that is designed to broaden and expose top-performing students to highly selective colleges across the country. Over 200 colleges and universities were present […]
Atlanta Public Schools, Beecher Hills Elementary, Target and Heart of America celebrated the opening of Beecher Hills’ renovated media center on Friday morning. The project included 2,000 new books as well as new bookshelves, tables, chairs, carpeting, lighting, a Promethean board and repainted walls with an undersea mural. While much of the pre-planning and design […]
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More than 1,500 APS high school students will flock to the Atlanta City Fair at Atlanta Metropolitan College this morning to learn more about their post-secondary options. Representatives from more than 125 colleges will be in attendance for this fair, one of 69 statewide sponsored by the Georgia Education Articulation Committee’s Probe College Fair. “I […]
Youth Entrepreneurs Atlanta kicked off a new school year Thursday at The New Schools at Carver with video presentations and inspiring remarks from students, teachers, Atlanta Public Schools administrators and business partners. See press release here.
Speaking of Michael Jordan Grants, we’re also excited to share the good news about Letitia Glover, a Science Contact Teacher at Maynard H. Jackson High’s School of Instructional Technology. Ms. Glover earned a $5,000 Jordan Fundamentals grant for her project titled “Teaching Myself to Learn How I Learn.” “I will help students learn how they […]
The Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing (HTM) small learning community at Douglass High School is raising the bar. For the 2009-2010 school year Tonya Fulton, HTM teacher and Stephanie Bailey, academy leader of HTM were granted $30,000 from the Michael Jordan Grant Foundation to develop a “HTM Career Laboratory” for students of this SLC. The HTM Laboratory will […]
The school year got started off on a positive note at Sarah Smith Elementary School as the school invited author, speaker, corporate trainer, success coach, performing artist AND parent MK Mueller. Ms. Mueller has also been called “The Gratitude Guru,” and is the author of two books, Taking Care of Me: The Habits of Happiness and […]
This just in, from the Georgia Department of Education: Carter G. Woodson Elementary has been named a 2009 National Blue Ribbon School, along with five other metro Atlanta schools. Woodson follows fellow APS school F.L. Stanton Elementary, which was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2008. According to Georgia Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox … […]
Atlanta Public Schools’ West Manor Elementary students received a visit this morning from the traveling Coretta Scott King Children’s Book Fair and representatives from the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF), where they got a chance to select an award-winning book of their choice featuring African-American authors and illustrators. The fair featured a performance by master storyteller […]