[gallery link=”file” order=”DESC” orderby=”title”] UPDATE: Check out the photo gallery here. Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle visited Morningside Elementary School to launch his Healthy Kids Challenge and to applaud the school for achieving a national 2010 Bronze Award for its wellness efforts from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The statewide effort, in collaboration with the […]
What started out as a lamentable situation has become something inspirational after Fickett Elementary suffered a break-in over the weekend. The school’s broadcast room was robbed of important electronic equipment by thieves and vandals. That’s the bad news. The inspirational news is that WXIA (11Alive) swooped in for a visit on Monday afternoon, reported from […]
UPDATE: For complete coverage of the State of the Schools address, click here. Check out the video here. Check out the photo gallery here. APS Superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall insisted on accountability and provided a blueprint for Atlanta Public Schools to move beyond the CRCT investigation report during her seventh-annual State of the Schools […]
Two Gideons Elementary School students were recently recognized by the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation for creating their very own videos about what Dr. King’s legacy means to them. Third-grader Nioma Yearwood and fourth-grader Avery Dixon were among 45 students from around the U.S. who received honorable mention for their video entry. […]
The New York Times‘ Atlanta reporter, Shaila Dewan, has an interesting take on APS’ handling of the CRCT test-answer investigation. Here’s a link to her article that was published over the weekend which is a follow-up to her first article following the release of the Blue Ribbon Commission’s report Aug. 2. Here’s one excerpt of […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXSzLxNCh4%5D This past summer the Center for Learning and Leadership welcomed summer interns who come from APS’ 21st Century Atlanta Scholar Program. Our own communications office has had the benefit of two interns in particular, and would love to show off some of their work this week. First off we’d like to tell you […]
The New York Times‘ Shaila Dewan reported Monday that Atlanta Public Schools was “substantially vindicated” in the Blue Ribbon Commission’s investigation into CRCT test-answer irregularities. The New York Times‘ article was the most substatial coverage provided by the national media. Here’s an excerpt from the piece … But the deeper investigation, by an independent commission […]
The phenomenon that is Deonte Bridges continues, this time with a great profile in Sunday’s AJC by one of their top reporters, Mark Davis. In the article, Davis chronicles the exploits that led to the Washington High valedictorian’s graduation speech and his subsequent celebrity sparked the YouTube video we posted back on June 14. Since […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IyAdMhXkt0%5D It seemed like a simple enough idea: Take Deonte Bridges‘ moving valedictorian speech at the Booker T. Washington graduation ceremony that had been recorded by our Learning Technologies staff and put it up on our newly opened YouTube channel. Well, next thing you know, Bridges’ speech went viral, currently surging past 60,000 page […]
[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.