[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.
Tiedra Hutchings, Crim Open Campus’ 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year, is attending the HistoryMakers 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute on African American Political History, through July 31. Hutchings was the only teacher in Georgia to be awarded the NEH scholarship for The HistoryMakers Education Institute, as well as being one out […]
Four Atlanta Public Schools teachers have earned Master Teacher Certification from the Georgia Professional Standards Commission in 2010. They are Emily Boatright (Inman Middle, profiled here), Endia Way (Perkerson Elementary), TaiShara Twyman (Dobbs Elementary) and Wendy Baker (Inman Middle). To earn the Master Teacher Certification, candidates must have at least three years experience in the […]
[gallery link=”file” orderby=”title”] UPDATES: Watch video of a morning session here. Watch video of Young Middle orchestra teacher Robert Jeffrey and a student here. More than 120 students and nearly 30 teachers throughout Atlanta Public Schools have taken up residence, almost literally, at the Woodruff Arts Center for a month of intense study. The second-annual […]
Not to get all nostalgic or anything, but when we started Talk Up APS toward the end of last summer, one of the first things we did was serve up a series of essays from the Atlanta Fund for Teachers (through the Atlanta Education Fund) winners who wrote about their summer experiences. The essays were […]
Congratulations to Parkside Elementary’s Teacher of the Year, Ronnie Thomas, who recently earned a scholarship to attend the 2010 Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy (HE@SA) program this June. Here’s his own take on this experience … “I was reminded while attending the High Museum Leonardo Da Vinci Math and Science Professional Development that minorities and […]
Megan Dosmann, a first-grade teacher at Toomer Elementary School, joined an Earthwatch Institute research team for a 13-day expedition in Nova Scotia to help scientists understand how the mammals of Nova Scotia are affected by climate change. Megan’s expedition was sponsored by a grant from HSBC in the Community (USA) Inc. From March 13 – 27, Megan […]