December 2010

Inclusion Pre-K students and facilities staff celebrate Inclusive Schools Week

[gallery link=”file” orderby=”title”] Tony Muckle, operations and maintenance manager for School Reform Team (SRT) 1, celebrated Inclusive Schools Week by inviting 37 APS Pre-kindergarten general and inclusion education students housed at John F. Kennedy Middle School to decorate the office holiday tree with their paper ornaments. Students from Kennedy’s inclusion Pre-K and general Pre-K classes decorated […]

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Kennedy Middle students take to the court of Inclusive Schools Week

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCnsRQkRw2U%5D Students from Kennedy Middle School‘s Program for Exceptional Children (PEC) and general-education students got to know each other a little better on the court as they participated in physical-education activities together during Inclusive Schools Week. Seven of the more severely disabled students had fun bowling, playing volleyball and trying baseball in the gym, […]

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Student Wellness Ambassadors help kick off childhood obesity prevention program with The Links, Inc., and Community Voices

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iTcpC39CJ4%5D Student Wellness Ambassadors from Towns and Woodson elementary schools joined representatives from The Links, Inc., and Community Voices of the Morehouse College School of Medicine to help kick off a childhood obesity prevention program Thursday at the School of Medicine. (Community Voices promotes projects to help find ways to increase access to quality […]

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Burgess-Peterson Academy PEC students enjoy a multi-sensory field trip for Inclusive Schools Week

UPDATE: Principal Robin Robbins explains Inclusive Schools Week activities here. For Burgess-Peterson Academy‘s Program for Exceptional Children teacher Monetia Hollie, the timing could not have been more perfect. She was thrilled to learn that Inclusive Schools Week (Dec. 6-10) would occur during the same week she had planned a field trip to celebrate the definition […]

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APS celebrates Inclusive Schools Week with creative, fun activities

UPDATE: Tony Muckle, operations and maintenance manager for School Reform Team (SRT) 1, celebrated Inclusive Schools Week by inviting 37 APS Pre-kindergarten general and inclusion education students housed at John F. Kennedy Middle School to decorate the office holiday tree with their paper ornaments. Read more here. UPDATE: Students from Kennedy Middle School’s Program for Exceptional […]

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APS celebrates Inclusive Schools Week with creative, fun activities

UPDATE: Tony Muckle, operations and maintenance manager for School Reform Team (SRT) 1, celebrated Inclusive Schools Week by inviting 37 APS Pre-kindergarten general and inclusion education students housed at John F. Kennedy Middle School to decorate the office holiday tree with their paper ornaments. Read more here. UPDATE: Students from Kennedy Middle School’s Program for Exceptional […]

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Venetian Hills Elementary forms Grandparents Support Club

Grandparents increasingly are finding themselves in the role of primary caregiver or guardian for their grandchildren, especially during the recession. Just from 2006 to 2007, the number of children living with a grandparent as a guardian jumped 6 percent, according to research by The Pew Research Center. Numbers like these hold true for the grandparents […]

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Walter F. White Elementary certified as a No Place for Hate school

Walter F. White Elementary learned Monday that it has been officially certified as a No Place for Hate School by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the group announced in a press release. The announcement came in a Banner Certification Program in which Hollande Levinson, ADL education director, presented a banner to White guidance counselor Dale W. Tate. Tate […]

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Grady High reaps more national journalism honors

Grady High‘s Grady News Now (GNN) won the prestigious Pacemaker Award at the 2010 National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) conference in Kansas City, Mo., in November. The award signifies that GNN ranks as one the top five scholastic broadcast programs in the nation. This is GNN’s third Pacemaker Award. GNN also took first place Best […]

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