If you’ve been following Talk Up APS this week, you’ll notice we’ve been offering sneak previews of the Spring issue of The Atlanta Educator. So far we’ve given little bits of profiles of some of our middle-school chess champions and a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will boost our Effective Teacher […]
Lights … camera … action! These are only a few of the words spoken by W.L. Parks Middle School students as they videotaped renowned storybook author Evelyn Coleman during a recent school visit. Parks sixth-graders have teamed up with the Auburn Avenue Research Library under the auspices of library program division manager Morris Garner. The students […]
Last week we shared a letter from education reformer Kati Haycock of The Education Trust who urged caution when considering the results of the recent report on CRCT answer-sheet erasures. This week brings another interesting article, from Karin Chenoweth, Education Trust senior writer and author of How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools. Writing for the Encyclopedia […]
There’s a great report on the WXIA (11Alive) Web site about how community partners and their private funding play such a crucial role in supporting Atlanta Public Schools. In this case, the report cites the incredible back-up provided to maintain the soccer field and field house and concession stands at E. Rivers Elementary — an […]
We here at Talk Up APS want to make sure that everyone is able to share all the good news that’s going on around the district with as many people as possible. Often times, we cut and paste links/URLs of certain blog posts into emails to friends and supporters. Have you? And have you ever […]
Kati Haycock, president of The Education Trust in Washington, D.C., responded to the recent CRCT erasure report with a call for caution in a correspondence posted on AJC education columnist Maureen Downey‘s “Get Schooled” blog. Here’s what she wrote: I hate cheating. I detest it when students do it. But my blood absolutely boils when […]
Since January, Harper-Archer Middle School’s eighth-graders have been working hard to improve their writing abilities and prepare for a school essay competition. Verna P. Colson, the school’s writing coach, made sure each received a thrilling compensation. Teams A, B, and C competed in the essay contest with three students from Team A — Marvin Nash, […]
Carver’s School of the Arts allows students to pursue various avenues ranging from drama to music technology. As a result, they were recently featured on CBS News’ “Cool Schools” series, which highlighted work from the drama, music technology, dance, band and the choir departments. After-school programs available to all Carver students were also filmed. Check […]
(UPDATE: Opening reception for the exhibit is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, at the Carver media center.) Carver’s School of Health Sciences & Research hosts the traveling Bunce Island exhibit running March 3-5. The exhibit will serve as a belated component of Carver’s many Black History Month presentations. Bunce Island (off the coast of Sierra […]
APS student-athletes from around the district signed national letters-of-intent to play football and basketball for the colleges of their choice on Wednesday, Feb. 3 — the vaunted National Signing Day — in a ceremony held at The New Schools of Carver. All of the star APS athletes were there to make their commitment official, most […]