Deerwood Academy students made an immediate connection with the children of Haiti. With members of the faculty as well as some of its students having family in Haiti, it was a no-brainer that the students of Deerwood Academy would extend a “helping hand,” thus the beginning of its school-wide service learning project. Recognizing that they […]
Finger snaps replaced hand claps during an assembly at Dunbar Elementary today. It’s all a part of the school’s monthly poetry slam, where students recited free verse and rhyming poems about topics ranging from butterflies to Haiti. You can read more about this event and how it helps reinforce Georgia Performance Standards in the next […]
Students from Carver’s School of Health Science and Research will participate in National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month. Their efforts are in synch with a partnership with local youth-development organization The Rock of Escape and The Jane Fonda Center at Emory University. Come join in these efforts at the kickoff event on Thursday, […]
[gallery link=”file” order=”DESC” orderby=”title”] Emma Hutchinson Elementary teacher Hau Nguyen poked his head into a classroom filled students, smiled at the police officer leading their discussion and then darted off to the next room. Typically, he is the one discussing Georgia Performance Standards with the assembled group of third- through fifth-graders. Instead, Nguyen and other […]
We continue our series on the winners of the Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education with a profile of Kennedy Middle School Principal Dr. Lucious L. Brown. He has been the principal for Kennedy Middle School for three years. His career with APS began 10 years ago as a math teacher. He has spent […]
During the week of Jan. 25-29, eight Georgia Power volunteers have been at Booker T. Washington High School delivering the CHOICES program. Volunteers are scheduled to implement the CHOICES program through the ninth-grade English/Language Arts classes in the Schools of Banking, Finance and Investment; Early College; Senior Academy; and Health Science and Nutrition. They brought […]
APS Superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall received the Georgia Speaker of the Year award Thursday during a banquet at Emory University sponsored by Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa, the National Forensics Honor Society. The annual award recognizes on an annual basis an individual who has had an impact throughout the state through public advocacy and promoting […]
Atlanta Public Schools is hosting a Parent Enrichment Workshop for middle and high school parents and guardians of students who are in the district’s Program for Exceptional Children on Saturday, Jan. 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The workshop will be held at the APS Center for Learning and Leadership located at 130 Trinity […]
Help for Haiti seems to be springing up all around Atlanta Public Schools, from pennies to dollars to blankets and clothing. The level of caring and giving rises with each day as students, faculty, staff, parents and community supporters rally to the nation’s aid. For example, what started out as a hallway conversation among teachers at […]
We’d like to celebrate the winners of the 2010 Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education with a series of profiles, starting today with Nza Willingham, third-grade teacher at Brandon Elementary. (We’re starting with Ms. Willingham, frankly, because she was out on a rare sick day when we came out to Brandon on Jan. 22 to […]