We continue our Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education winners with a look at Rendell Jackson, a physical-education teacher at King Middle School. Jackson is in his third year at King, after teaching in the Douglas and Fulton county school systems. A former pro football player in the Arena and Canadian football leagues, Jackson is also a published […]
Fred A. Toomer Elementary School’s first grade teacher Megan Dosmann was recently awarded an Earthwatch Live From the Field Fellowship. On March 13, Dosmann will leave on a two-week expedition with Earthwatch to study the effects of climate change on mammals in Nova Scotia. The expedition, from March 14-27, is sponsored by HSBC in the Community (USA) Inc. […]
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 […]
We continue our ongoing series on the Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education winners with a profile of Cathy Carter, third-grade department chair at West Manor Elementary School. Currently in her third year at West Manor, Carter also serves on the Mathematics and Science Committee, the One Fair Committee and School Programs Committee, and is a member of the […]
North Atlanta High School guidance counselor Terina Isaac (pictured above, at left, with a student) has been named the College Board‘s Counselor of the Year for the Southeast Region. Isaac learned of the honor in January, and will be honored at a breakfast on Friday (Feb. 19) morning, held as part of the 2010 Regional […]
We continue our series on the Atlanta Families’ Awards winners with a look at Kenya Greer, a first grade teacher at Cascade Elementary School. This is her 13th year of teaching on the elementary level. She earned her B.S. degree in elementary education from Alabama State University in 1997. Greer has taught in the Fulton County, […]
We’d like to celebrate the winners of the 2010 Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education with a series of profiles, starting today with Nza Willingham, third-grade teacher at Brandon Elementary. (We’re starting with Ms. Willingham, frankly, because she was out on a rare sick day when we came out to Brandon on Jan. 22 to […]