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Atlanta Wolfpack wins fifth GHSA State Wheelchair Basketball title in six years!

by talkupaps 8 Mar 2011

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UPDATE: The Atlanta Wolfpack team WON its fifth state wheelchair title in six years over the weekend! Reece Johnson scored 12 points in a 35-25 win over arch-rival West Georgia in the finals held Friday at the Gwinnett Arena. Johnson is a senior at Crim Open Campus, was praised by his coach in an AJC article:

“Reece has grown from being just a player to being a mentor,” Wolfpack coach Andrea Arnold said. “We appreciate the development that he has shown personally, athletically, even socially, just making sure that he is a resource to his teammates. He will be greatly missed.”

The Atlanta Wolfpack team will compete for its fifth Georgia High School Association‘s AAASP Wheelchair Basketball Championship in six years on Friday, March 11, at the Gwinnett Arena. Tip-off is noon. The Wolfpack will compete against Meriwether County’s West Georgia Wolverines, who are their toughest competitors.

The Wolfpack took an easy win at the State Wheelchair Basketball Semi-final Tournament on Saturday, March 5, at Warner Robins High School in Houston County against the Gwinnett Heat, finishing the season undefeated with a 6-0 record.

Currently the team has won four GHSA State AAASP Wheelchair Basketball championship titles — 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 — which ties the league record for the most consecutive state championships. (Read The Atlanta Educator article here.)

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Inside The Atlanta Educator: Adapted sports athletes

by talkupaps 17 Dec 2010

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We continue our look at the features, profiles and images from the latest issue of of The Atlanta Educator with a look at the adapted sports athletes of Atlanta Public Schools. If you haven’t picked up your copy before the break, you can view and print individual articles here, or you can read it online at www.issuu.com/atlantaeducator.

Here’s the intro:

Each year, athletes in the district’s Adapted Sports Program rise to the occasion. But this year has been truly exceptional.

Consider the two state championships — in wheelchair handball and wheelchair basketball — under the auspices of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs (AAASP). Then there is the series of grants they have earned. Atlanta Wolfpack athletes also attracted attention and respect from members of the Atlanta Dream women’s NBA team. After a campus tour of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, these talented students are now focused on the path to college.

Kennedy Middle students take to the court of Inclusive Schools Week

by talkupaps 10 Dec 2010

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Students from Kennedy Middle School‘s Program for Exceptional Children (PEC) and general-education students got to know each other a little better on the court as they participated in physical-education activities together during Inclusive Schools Week. Seven of the more severely disabled students had fun bowling, playing volleyball and trying baseball in the gym, assisted by sixth- and eighth-grade students.

Physical-education teacher Fabrice Aime (Kennedy’s 2010 Teacher of the Year), adapted PE coach Vanessa Morton, PE coach Cecilia Wooten, Beverly Easterling (PEC lead teacher), and eighth-grade math teacher LaQuise Glass helped monitor the action.

Easterling was amazed at how quickly students came together during activities, including general-education students who previously weren’t the most social around PEC students. (“One girl just came up to me and said, ‘Can we do this every week?’ Easterling said.) A student with a more severe disability normally becomes hyperactive in group settings, but grew calmer and more relaxed over the course of the hour.

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Burgess-Peterson Academy PEC students enjoy a multi-sensory field trip for Inclusive Schools Week

by talkupaps 9 Dec 2010

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UPDATE: Principal Robin Robbins explains Inclusive Schools Week activities here.

For Burgess-Peterson Academy‘s Program for Exceptional Children teacher Monetia Hollie, the timing could not have been more perfect. She was thrilled to learn that Inclusive Schools Week (Dec. 6-10) would occur during the same week she had planned a field trip to celebrate the definition of inclusion.

This week, Hollie took seven PEC students and four general-education students on a trip to Sensations TheraFun, a playground facility in northeast Atlanta that is specially designed for sensory recreation. It serves as the perfect learning environment for students with autism or sensory-processing disorders. Burgess-Peterson students participated in activities such as the “zip line,” in which a student climbs a ladder holding a big round ball, then slides down a ramp while wrapping arms and legs around the ball. They also entered a room that featured iridescent lights, water fountains and mirrors that created differing sensory experiences.

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APS celebrates Inclusive Schools Week with creative, fun activities

by talkupaps 9 Dec 2010

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UPDATE: Tony Muckle, operations and maintenance manager for School Reform Team (SRT) 1, celebrated Inclusive Schools Week by inviting 37 APS Pre-kindergarten general and inclusion education students housed at John F. Kennedy Middle School to decorate the office holiday tree with their paper ornaments. Read more here.

UPDATE: Students from Kennedy Middle School’s Program for Exceptional Children (PEC) and general-education students got to know each other a little better on the court as they participated in physical-education activities together during Inclusive Schools Week. Seven of the more severely disabled students had fun bowling, playing volleyball and trying baseball in the gym, assisted by sixth- and eighth-grade students. Read more here.

UPDATE: For Burgess-Peterson Academy’s Program for Exceptional Children teacher Monetia Hollie, the timing could not have been more perfect. She was thrilled to learn that Inclusive Schools Week would occur during the same week she had planned a field trip to celebrate the definition of inclusion. Check out that field trip to Sensations TheraFun here.

Students and staff from Cleveland Avenue Elementary School’s Program for Exceptional Children kicked off Inclusive Schools Week (Dec. 6-10) by releasing blue and white balloons in front of their school. It’s just one of several district events this week, and we’ll have updates from other individual schools as the information comes in.

Other activities Cleveland Avenue planned for the week include daily morning announcements by their Junior Beta Club members sharing a celebrity who has been diagnosed with a disability and an inclusion parent workshop with parents reading to students. The school will end the week Friday with a student essay/poetry contest with the theme “What Inclusion/Diversity means to me.”

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APS celebrates Inclusive Schools Week with creative, fun activities

by talkupaps 9 Dec 2010

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APS celebrates Inclusive Schools Week

by talkupaps 3 Dec 2010

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Students and parents at Deerwood Academy and several other Atlanta Public Schools ate lunch together on Thursday for Family Engagement Day.

Atlanta Public Schools’ Inclusive Schools Week highlights families, schools and communities that have dedicated time and resources to promote inclusive education for all students.

An inclusive school provides a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse population of students who are marginalized due to disability, gender, socioeconomic status, cultural heritage, language preference and other factors.

The week-long celebration provides an important opportunity for educators, students and parents to discuss ways to ensure that schools improve their ability to successfully educate all children. Students, faculty and staff can show their support by wearing blue on Wednesday, Dec. 8, “True Blue Inclusive School” day. The week is being sponsored by the Program for Exceptional Children.

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APS’ Program for Exceptional Children rolls out three-year inclusive education initiative

by talkupaps 5 Aug 2010

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APS PEC interim director Constance Goodson (left) and executive director of Student Programs and Services Aaron Fernander (middle)

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 Systemic Change,” that the district will implement unified, system-wide inclusive school practices framework over a three-year period through intense professional development and teacher assessment. The term “inclusive practices” is the collection of organizational and instructional practices used by effective schools to educate a diverse student population, including students with disabilities in general education settings.

Also new this year: Every school will have a lead special education teacher who will coordinate logistics in collaboration with special education teacher, and all special education teachers will serve as case managers for their students. In addition, principals (or assistant principals at larger schools) will serve as the Local Education Agency Representative, which is required for every PEC student that participates in an Individualized Education Program.

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Save the date: Program for Exceptional Children system-wide teachers’ meeting, Aug. 4-5

by talkupaps 29 Jul 2010

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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 from SRT-3 and SRT-4, GNETS, all middle-school teachers. The second day will include SRT-3, SRT-4 and the Office of High Schools, psychologists and social workers, charter schools, Hillside and Bridge.

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Save the date: APS PEC parent focus groups, March 30-31

by talkupaps 23 Mar 2010

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The Program of Exceptional Children (PEC) invites all Atlanta Public Schools’ PEC parents to attend a parent focus group. Parents/guardians are invited to participate by sharing their child’s experiences and their involvement in the program. The meeting will be facilitated by The Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, a network of special and general education leaders that is sponsored by the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) of Newton, Mass.

The parent focus group is part of an independent audit commissioned by APS to help improve outcomes for students with disabilities. The report identifies what the district is doing well, and makes specific recommendations for improvement.

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