[gallery link=”file” orderby=”title”] UPDATE: Watch the complete video of the experience here. Watch video of cadets in a Black Hawk helicopter here. You know APS media production team members Scott King and Armon Moore are taking their coverage of APS’ JROTC troops seriously when they report back via text that they’re sampling MRE’s (“meals ready to […]
[gallery link=”file” order=”DESC” orderby=”title”] UPDATE: Come see the students perform at the residency-ending recital on Friday night at 6 p.m. at Sutton Middle School. About 40 APS students have been joined by a handful of others at this week’s Juilliard Summer Jazz Residency, which launched its third year in its third home Monday, at Sutton Middle […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF-5pifBxqg%5D UPDATE: Watch bassist/instructor Ben Wolfe teach his Big Band class. This is the third year around for Young Middle School student James Robertson at the Juilliard Summer Jazz Residency, which means he’s been involved with it as long as anyone. The rising seventh-grader has gotten a lot out of the program, which keeps […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Wcr82UOsw%5D Deonte Bridges is just one of several Atlanta Public Schools graduates who had a story behind his years of hard work. Bridges, valedictorian for Booker T. Washington High’s Senior Academy, truly captured the essence of his challenges his speech graduation at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. And APS’ Department of Learning Technologies […]
APS high school graduates earned a record $128.6 million in academic and athletic scholarship offers this year. The Class of 2010, which comprises 2,158 students from 10 APS high schools, beat the $93 million in scholarships awarded to the Class of 2009, and $64 million awarded in 2008. Also, a record 29 APS students earned […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbBuhQCRK3E%5D Who wouldn’t want to attend a class called “The Mad Scientist Club”? We were too tempted when we saw the silly putty, students staring at their chemistry glasses and the grand experiments taking place inside classrooms at Parkside Elementary — this year’s host of APS’ Xanadu Gifted and Talented Summer Program. We were […]
[gallery link=”file” orderby=”title”] UPDATE: Watch video of a teacher and student discussing Xanadu here. Watch photo gallery here. Elaine Nevers-Williams (pictured above, bottom right) has taught at several levels in her 13 years in Atlanta Public Schools (17 overall). So what made Nevers-Williams, currently a kindergarten teacher at M. Agnes Jones Elementary, decide to become […]
Atlanta City Council members Michael Julian Bond and Keisha Lance Bottoms presented a proclamation on June 7 to Douglass High School’s Stock Market Team, which placed first in the 2010 Stock Market Game Capitol Hill Challenge (CHC).
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWRAXs9ajM%5D We continue our coverage of the second-annual Middle School and High School Summer Academy for the Arts and Sciences this week at the Woodruff Arts Center with an interview with Young Middle School orchestra leader Robert Jeffrey and one of his star students, rising eighth-grader Robin Smith. A trombonist, Smith recently earned all-state honors […]
[gallery link=”file” orderby=”title”] UPDATES: Watch video of a morning session here. Watch video of Young Middle orchestra teacher Robert Jeffrey and a student here. More than 120 students and nearly 30 teachers throughout Atlanta Public Schools have taken up residence, almost literally, at the Woodruff Arts Center for a month of intense study. The second-annual […]