“Has it been a good day, or a crazy day?” we asked one of our principals as he shepherded students onto buses at the end of the first day of school Monday. “It’s been a good day! OK, a crazy day, too, but a good day!” he responded, as Atlanta Public Schools’ nearly 48,000 students […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIbJqIHNxU%5D UPDATE: Check out the photo gallery here. It may have been increasingly hot outside, but the students and parents of the East Atlanta neighborhood were having a cool time Saturday morning inside Burgess-Peterson Academy at the school’s Open House Community Day. The event, similar to many around APS this past weekend, served as […]
Springdale Park Elementary (SPARK) students and parents got a chance to visit their classrooms and tour the school today at the second annual “SPARK Sneak Peek” back-to-school event. Students had the opportunity to spend time in their classrooms and interact with their teacher and classmates, while parents learned about after-school enrichment programs, signed up for […]
APS students begin the 2010-11 school year on Monday, Aug. 9, with a projected enrollment of 47,789 students at more than 100 schools throughout the district. On the first day of classes, teaching and learning will commence in all APS schools that are on the traditional calendar. The district also has three year-round schools that […]
Atlanta Public Schools’ Program for Exceptional Children (PEC) rolled out its new inclusive school practices initiative that will be implemented over the next three years, to approximately 900 special education professionals during a system-wide training held Aug. 4-5 at Douglass High School. PEC interim director Constance Goodson stated during her presentation, titled “Pathways to […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zlEWG4fm8%5D We had a blast out at the Math & Science District Focused Professional Learning workshop that began today and concludes Thursday at the Georgia World Congress Center. Here we had a chance to meet Deerwood Academy fourth-grade teacher Joycelyn McCulley, who explained the seminar she delivered to her peers on the Georgia Performance […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKa-NCysz_k%5D Former Chicago Cubs baseball player C.J. Stewart never forgets his roots — and we’re talking roots that go all the way back to elementary school. Stewart brought the “Ambassadors” players from his LEAD2Legacy foundation to his old stomping grounds at Grove Park Elementary to help teachers prepare for Day One APS (Aug. 9). […]
Next week the Program for Exceptional (PEC) children will hold a system-wide teachers’ meeting at Douglass High School (map). Titled “Pathways to Change,” the meeting will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4 and Thursday, Aug. 5. The first day will include SRT-1 and SRT-2 PEC teachers, paraprofessionals and middle-school teachers […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuyVgPrGAQ%5D Here’s a great video from our coverage of Principals’ Academy held Thursday at Douglass High School. (Check out the blog post below.) Kudos to our intern, Lyntoria Newton, who serves as the executive producer of this video in collaboration with our media production team of Scott King and Armon Moore.
The first in the state hybrid school bus became part of the APS fleet of school buses that transports students to school July 14, the first day of classes for the district’s year-round schools. The Thomas Built Hybrid Saf-T-Liner C2 bus was used to transport students to and from Boyd Elementary School with students from the surrounding […]