[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwsb89rlkMI%5D A group of seven British educators finished up their week observing elementary and middle schools APS with a “high tea” at the Center for Learning and Leadership, sharing notes from their trip before preparing their return to the United Kingdom. The teachers shared their experiences with APS administrators Joyce McCloud (Office of the […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no6_witF-Gk%5D By the time we caught up with British teachers Lynn Keast and Annemarie Kendell the bus was waiting to take them back to their hotels after spending their third and final day at M. Agnes Jones Elementary, so we only had a moment to check in on their experiences. But it was still […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPjBFQOrCs%5D For the third consecutive year, the Sutton Middle School boys’ soccer team captured the Metro Atlanta Soccer League title. Just as impressively, the team cruised to a 15-0 season after almost doubling the number of games from last year’s 9-1 championship season. The Cougars outscored opponents 76-8 and dominated in all but a […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDisV0ZYL2c%5D We were really excited to learn about the teachers from the United Kingdom visiting Atlanta Public Schools this week to interact with our school faculty and staff and share some of the ideas. So we decided to pop in on one of the schools, M. Agnes Jones Elementary, and listen in on what […]
The 18th annual Bus Trip Across Georgia will make stops at two schools in APS next week, including The New Schools at Carver at 1:45 p.m. Oct. 27 and Charles R. Drew Charter School at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 28. More than 70 education stakeholders representing business, government, education and citizen groups will participate as riders on […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNn-2U_mfNA%5D UPDATE: Read AJC article here. Congratulations go out to Grady High School‘s vaunted mock trial team, which came home this past weekend with a unique world title. Twelve members of the team, which previously place third in national competition this past summer, won the Empire City Mock Trial Association Tournament held in New […]
Seven public school teachers from Cornwall, England, will visit half a dozen APS schools next week as part of an international exchange of best and alternative educational practices. The British teachers are scheduled to visit Coretta Scott King and Kennedy middle schools and Dunbar, Smith Primary, Jones and Parkside elementary schools Monday-Friday, Oct. 25-29. The […]
The Inman Middle School 5K Race will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, (registration will be at 7:30 a.m.). The theme: “Walk, Run, Soar Like an Eagle.” The cost is $10 per student, $20 per adult and $25 on the day of the race. The school welcomed 200 runners last year and hopes […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZuPwSavfNk%5D UPDATE: Beggs discusses the recent Domecoming football showcase. Jeff Beggs has joined APS as director of athletics with district-wide responsibilities for leadership of the interscholastic sports program, sports training and competition throughout all grade levels. Beggs brings a 31-year background as a system-level athletic director, a high school athletic director, head coach, assistant […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi_IOCDZIFw%5D Wanda Brown-Cook Carver School of the Arts Dr. Marvin Pryor, principal Randolph Bynum, associate superintendent of high schools Wanda Brown-Cook, a native of Atlanta, graduated from Spelman College with a bachelor of arts degree in English. She received a master’s degree in education at Buffalo State University of New York in the Teacher […]