UPDATE: There are still more photos available in a special gallery set up on the district Web site, http://www.atlantapublicschools.us. Check out the photo gallery here. There were so many great images from today’s Peyton Forest Elementary playground build with KaBOOM! and The Home Depot, so we thought we’d offer this little photo gallery. We’ll see […]
For Peyton Forest Elementary ESOL teacher Beth Bolden (pictured, above left), the six-hour construction of an entirely new playground was the culmination of a three-year dream. For Principal Karen Barlow Brown (pictured, above right), it confirmed the commitment of her staff and the surrounding community to make her school a better place for her students. […]
In conjunction with its Teacher of the Year celebration, the wellness program at F.L. Stanton Elementary held a lupus walk Oct. 9 at Mozley Park on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The school’s Teacher of the Year, Rhea Foster, lost her 24-year-old daughter to lupus in 2004. Many other families have been affected by this little-known […]
There’s a great story in the AJC today by Gracie Bonds Staples about how local school systems (including APS) are fighting obesity with innovative strategies. The story includes one of our favorite community partners, rock-star chef Linton Hopkins (Restaurant Eugene, Holeman & Finch Public House), and his work at E. Rivers Elementary. But there’s also […]
WSB-TV filmed Whitefoord Elementary students working in the Edgewood Community Learning Garden on Sept. 28. This taping, featuring Joe Washington from HGTV, will be used as a public service announcement highlighting the work of the Southeastern Horticultural Society in the Edgewood neighborhood. The Edgewood Community Learning Garden is the Southeastern Horticultural Society’s first community garden […]
This just in, courtesy Morningside Elementary Instructional Specialist Kori Sanchez, who shared with us this video on the Atlanta-based Mother Nature Network of recent garden work at the school. The host is Atlanta’s own Farmer D.
Representatives from the Atlanta Falcons were scheduled to visit eight different sites — including Brown, Long and Turner middle schools — as part of the NFL-United Way’s “Hometown Huddle” project to promote better health and fitness. The AJC has a nice little piece on the event here. From the article: The Falcons are the only […]
The 100 Black Men of Atlanta‘s annual Fitness For Life Family Fair has been rescheduled from earlier this year to Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at B.E.S.T. Academy. The media is invited to attend this event and experience community outreach that combines health education with fun activities. The family health fair is part of […]
Atlanta Public Schools’ nutrition department is proud to offer its featured Produce of the Month, in which they select a produce item that will be an integral side item in school meals. October’s selection: North Carolina sweet potatoes. For the uninitiated, there are approximately 400 different types of sweet potatoes. The sweet potato has yellow […]
Fickett Elementary was hoping for about 250 volunteers to show up Saturday for a playground build partnership with KaBOOM! and Foresters. About 540 showed up. That’s the kind of passion that the Ben Hill neighborhood has for the school, which welcomed a completely new playground (with a few surrounding extras) over the weekend. “It’s about […]