26 Oct 2016 – APS Today

Sutton Middle School and North Atlanta High Host Inaugural All-Girls Chess Tournament

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Chess girls rock – and rook! Sutton Middle and North Atlanta High schools’ chess teams recently hosted the inaugural session of Chess Girls Rook! Female Empowerment Tournament at Sutton’s sixth-grade campus. The tournament is named after the rook, a chess piece that moves any number of unoccupied squares in a straight line, horizontally or vertically. Chess expert Bella […]

Dr. Betsy Bockman Receives 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Educational Advisory Foundation

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By: Alicia Sands Lurry Dr. Betsy Bockman is an educator who “changes lives” and “never gives up.” And now Dr. Bockman, the interim principal of Henry W. Grady High School, is also the recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Education and Business from the Educational Advisory Foundation (EAF). Joined earlier this month by colleagues, community […]