Incoming APS ninth-grade students were provided a weeklong preview of high school life during the district’s Jumpstart to Success Summer Academy held last week at all APS high schools. The students attended orientation classes that detailed the district’s themed small learning communities that are associated with all APS high schools. The purpose of the program is to […]
By now hopefully you’ve read about Frederick Douglass High School‘s national championship team in the Capitol Hill Challenge competition — either in the AJC or right here (and right here) in Talk Up APS. They’ve become quite the celebrities, and will be featured at noon Sunday on CW69’s “Focus Atlanta.” Here we speak with team […]
Jeffrey Brown, a rising senior at The New Schools at Carver’s Early College, won a $4,000 Wilderness Scholarship from Outward Bound Atlanta that will be put toward a 21-day hike in the North Carolina mountains in July 2010. This won’t be the first time for Brown, who’s gone on a couple hikes with the program […]
Deonte Bridges is just one of several Atlanta Public Schools graduates who had a story behind his years of hard work. Bridges, valedictorian for Booker T. Washington High’s Senior Academy, truly captured the essence of his challenges his speech graduation at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. And APS’ Department of Learning Technologies was there […]
It’s graduation week, so we thought we’d share this video presentation introducing you to the valedictorians and salutatorians of our high schools — most of which have been beneficiaries of our High School Transformation Initiative. This project has taken our traditional campuses and divided them into small learning communities with academy leaders under the supervision […]
This just in from The Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education … The Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education has announced that Charles R. Drew Charter School and The New Schools at Carver have been selected as two of seven schools that will make up this year’s annual Bus Trip Across Georgia. The theme this […]
UPDATE: Read the AJC article here. Congratulations to a team from Douglass High that recently won national title in the Capitol Hill Challenge (CHC)! The CHC is a special edition of the SIFMA Foundation’s educational program, The Stock Market Game (SMG), which shares with members of Congress real-time examples of students benefiting from the program […]
UPDATE: See photo gallery here. Read the flattering AJC feature here. Booker T. Washington High School‘s Freedom Writers were honored by Atlanta’s oldest law firm, Kilpatrick Stockton, for achieving a 96 percent acceptance rate into college while being offered more than 190 scholarships worth more than $6.4 million. In an announcement today at the Atlanta Event […]
The CTI State Leadership Conference was held at the Macon City Marriott and Centreplex over the weekend. There were approximately 530 students from around the state entered in 34 competitive areas. The students were entertained by Keith L. Brown, aka “Motivator of the Millennium,” who delivered a strong but energized message about being the best. His message […]
By now, most everyone in the APS community is familiar with the announcement this week of the 2010 Gates Millennium Scholarships, with APS leading the nation in the number of scholarships received at 29. And as some may have noticed in this moving account inside Thursday’s article in the AJC, one student in particular stands […]