Brown Middle School science teacher and football coach Ernest Davis recently received the biggest surprise of his life: a pair of tickets to Super Bowl LIII! An avid football fan, a teary-eyed Davis was greeted on Jan. 25 by Brown Middle School cheerleaders, football players, members of the school’s drumline, and a cheering group of […]
Nearly 350 participants joined the Children’s March for Literacy on Jan. 19 with a goal to collect 5,000 books and raise $30,000 to build and stock 72 Free Little Libraries across Atlanta. The march was organized by The Empowered Readers Literacy Project, a non-profit envisioned by a 5-year-old little girl who set out to tackle […]
Nearly three years after Grady High School freshman Alexia Hyneman was struck and killed by a car at the intersection of 10th Street and Monroe Drive while riding her bike home from school, a group of students are rallying together to make a difference in their neighborhoods and school community. Founded by 11th grader […]
With innovative projects exploring everything from biomedical research, water filtration and plant growth, to physics, environmental and animal science, nearly 500 scholars from across Atlanta Public Schools showcased their scientific and engineering skills at the 2019 APS Regional Science Fair. Held Jan. 23-24 at the Coan Building, this year’s science and engineering fair was sponsored […]
In celebration of National Reading Day on Jan. 23, Heritage Academy launched a free two-day book fair that not even Clifford the Big Red Dog could miss! “It is the mission of Heritage Academy Elementary School staff to teach the children how to read, write, think, compute, appreciate the arts, speak well and behave in socially acceptable […]
Volunteers exchanged hope for humility as they washed the feet of nearly 500 F.L. Stanton and Cleveland Avenue elementary students and adorned them with brand new socks and shoes. The nonprofit organization behind the experience, Samaritan’s Feet, aims to inspire impoverished children around the world and to offer encouragement to those who need it most. […]
Crim Open Campus High School senior Keyshawn Releford hopes to one day become a carpenter or engineer. Thanks to the hands-on experience he’s gaining at school, Keyshawn is well on his way to fulfilling that special dream. Now enrolled in the Crim Entrepreneurship class, Keyshawn and his classmates are busy learning to repair and refurbish […]
“I never would’ve dropped out of college if I’d had my posse with me.” This statement, made by an anonymous student, was the impetus for The Posse Foundation. For 30 years, the college access program has identified and trained young scholars who might be overlooked by prestigious schools and placed them in supportive, multicultural groups […]