UPDATE: Hilaire Anelone photo gallery here. Atlanta Public Schools is proud to announce its Teacher of the Year, Hilaire Anelone of Maynard H. Jackson High. (Mr. Anelone also represents Jackson as the High School Teacher of the Year). Born and raised in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Anelone came to the United States to complete an engineering […]
Out of more than 500 art and writing samples, Booker T. Washington High School became the recipient of two honors from a recent essay contest. The former recognizes Kamalia Blunt and Rosa Cromartie as the first- and second-place winners, respectively, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Essay Contest. The latter acknowledges Washington High as having […]
Congratulations are in order for the Sutton Middle School boys soccer team, which captured the city championship last week in winning the Metro Atlanta Athletics Conference. Head coach Jacob Bland, who also is the head coach of the the North Atlanta High boys varsity team, was extremely proud of a team that finished the season with […]
We’re not exactly restaurant critics over here, but we know a great APS parent when we see one, so we couldn’t more thrilled to learn that E. Rivers Elementary parent/supporter and rock-star chef Linton Hopkins had his Restaurant Eugene named the AJC‘s 2009 Restaurant of the Year. (Guess they’d seen enough after 10 months.) Hopkins […]
As the son of a math teacher, Slater Elementary Principal For a Day Dave Cohen expected to see kids grimacing over equations — and teachers working hard to keep them focused. Instead, he saw students who were eager to answer math questions, guided by teachers who cheered their success. “There’s a lot of positive energy […]
This may have been the first time for Luz Borrero (above) — deputy COO, City of Atlanta — as Turner Middle School’s Principal for a Day, but she had plenty of experienced visitors along with her during her visit to the school on Tuesday. That’s because she was welcomed not only by Principal Karen Riggins-Taylor […]
Pat Willis, executive director, Voices for Georgia’s Children, and Courtney Gay, community affairs manager for the Atlanta Braves, were Principals for a Day at Sylvan Hills Middle School where Gwen Atkinson is the principal. Their day started with orientation, followed by a tour of the school’s single-gender structure for its 442 students. Atkinson took Willis […]
Sometimes you really can go home again. As Dr. Gwen Benson of Georgia State University walked the halls of Dunbar Elementary, the former Atlanta Public Schools employee couldn’t help but note how far the district has come. “It’s more inclusive of students with disabilities, and there’s more support for students and principals,” said Benson, who […]
William N. Failor, president and COO of Cobbs, Allen & Hall, Inc., is no stranger to E.L. Connally Elementary School. In his third year as a participant of Principal for a Day, Failor read the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin to a kindergarten class and later treated each student to a choice of […]
Warren T. Jackson Elementary put its best foot forward in hosting Target Store Team Leader Andy Morris as its Principal for a Day. Principal Lorraine Reich showed off one of the school’s biggest assets — its teachers — following a video presentation for the community partner. Morris met members of the school’s PTA, including Co-Presidents […]