UPDATE: For more images, visit photo gallery here. Coan Middle School built on the momentum started last summer with an Edgewood community learning garden with the unveiling of an edible garden in the back of the school’s campus. (See photos of the Edgewood community garden here.) Thanks to a partnership with the Zeist Foundation and the […]
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 […]
The Program for Exceptional Children‘s Atlanta Wolfpack team won the 2010 AAASP State Wheelchair Basketball Championship at the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) State Basketball Championship on March 12 at the Gwinnett Arena. This is the third consecutive win for the Wolfpack team. The Wolfpack team is no overnight success. Team development and a winning record is the result […]
Mayor Kasim Reed spent most of Tuesday morning at Therrell’s School for Technology, Engineering, Math and Science (STEMS), talking with students about the importance of education and being dedicated as they move through life. “You have to fall in love with hard work” he told students. Mayor Reed lectured in the 11th-grade American history class […]
Andrew Lovett is a born leader who constantly seeks new ways to engage his math students. That dedication helped him win 2009 Teacher of the Year for Carver’s School of Health Sciences & Research. The same qualities that make him a prime candidate for administrative positions within the district also make Lovett an asset in […]
Every year, the Georgia Health Occupation Student Association (HOSA) hosts a State Leadership Conference to showcase the leadership and skills training that students have acquired during the school year. This year’s competition will be held March 4-6. Carver Health Sciences & Research will compete for the second consecutive year — and the school plans to […]
We continue our series on the Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education winners with a look at Deirdre A. Denis of Whitefoord Elementary School. Denis has proudly served as an elementary school educator for the past 17 years. She started her teaching career at Longfellow Humanities Magnet in St. Paul, Minn., where she spent […]
Carver’s School of Health Sciences and Research (HSR) is on the path to producing future scientists, nurses and doctors. The school also engages students in various character-building programs, such as Pennies for Patients, Youth Truth forums and Teen Pregnancy Awareness. During Pregnancy Awareness Week, Carver’s Public Service Announcement Committee (PSA) reenacted life as a teenage […]
Emma Hutchinson Elementary teacher Hau Nguyen poked his head into a classroom filled students, smiled at the police officer leading their discussion and then darted off to the next room. Typically, he is the one discussing Georgia Performance Standards with the assembled group of third- through fifth-graders. Instead, Nguyen and other male faculty members were […]
Maynard Holbrook Jackson High School’s Information Technology Academy will be the only site in Atlanta Public Schools to participate in Operation Reboot, a program designed to transform IT workers into teachers. Thanks to Barbara Ericson, director of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, and Dr. Shirlene Carter, Jackson principal, and Dr. Phyllis Earls, Academy […]