Atlanta Public Schools students once again will get some much-appreciated help with their school work tonight when the award-winning Homework Hotline reopens its phone lines. The Hotline phone number, 678-553-3029, normally can be reached Mondays through Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. You can also visit the Web site: http://www.myhomeworkhotline.org. A joint venture between […]
Fain Elementary today recently received a $500 book grant from Target. The school will host an Open House/Target Book Donation celebration at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, with a brief celebration in the school’s media center. Fain used the money to purchase textbooks from First Books. Hat tip to Fain Media Specialist and Communications Ambassador […]
The visit by Parks Middle School students and faculty to Canada is the gift that keeps on giving. The school will welcome author, educator and poet Dr. Afua Cooper (right), who will visit on Sept. 14. Dr. Cooper will appear at visual-arts classroom from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cooper is a noted historian and is the author […]
We continue our series on how APS teachers spent their summer. Next up: Maynard H. Jackson High math teacher Neville McFarlane, who used his Fund for Teachers grant (through the Atlanta Education Fund) to attend a photovoltaic and installation workshop in Colorado. What’s a photovoltaic and installation workshop, you ask? So did we. Here’s Mr. McFarlane’s […]
Here’s an amazing story, courtesy of Brenda Street, media specialist at D. H. Stanton Elementary. Street helped lead the school’s participation in the International Student Media Festival, and you’ll be delighted at how well the students did. Each spring there is a Georgia Student Media Festival sponsored by Georgia Association for Instructional Technology, Georgia Library Association […]
We continue our series on how APS teachers spent their summer with our first duo: Nancy Hultquist (above right) and Kelley Jordan-Monné (left) from Morris Brandon Elementary. These two teachers traveled to Bamako, Mali, to continue to develop the school’s relationship with their sister school, Kalanso Espace Education. Kalanso and Morris Brandon began their sister-school partnership […]
The deadline’s drawing near for the 2010 Atlanta Families’ Awards for Excellence in Education (AFAEE). Teachers and principals are invited to attend the AFAEE Open House from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at the ISC Peterson Building over on Mary Dell Drive. Read more about the even in this press release. RSVP to […]
Inman Middle School seventh-grade teacher Pam Andrews has been selected to serve on the 2009-10 Superintendent’s Teacher Advisory Council. In a letter to Ms. Andrews announcing the selection, Georgia Department of Education Superintendent Kathy Cox cited the teacher’s expertise and commitment to help students achieve academically. “I greatly value the ideas and opinions of classroom […]
There’s an interesting article in Education Week about the impact of “top-notch” teachers on their peers. Quoting from a new study, the articles suggests new evidence about the so-called “spillover effect” in teaching. Study co-authors C. Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann, working from 11 years of data, measured teacher quality by two different types of […]
A belated congratulations to Morningside Elementary for being honored with a Healthy Schools award from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation at the Healthy Schools Program Forum in New York last month. Morningside joined fellow APS member Burgess-Peterson Academy and 112 other schools across the country in receiving the award. (Read more about Burgess-Peterson’s award here.) There […]