“Has it been a good day, or a crazy day?” we asked one of our principals as he shepherded students onto buses at the end of the first day of school Monday. “It’s been a good day! OK, a crazy day, too, but a good day!” he responded, as Atlanta Public Schools’ nearly 48,000 students […]
UPDATE: Check out the photo gallery here. It may have been increasingly hot outside, but the students and parents of the East Atlanta neighborhood were having a cool time Saturday morning inside Burgess-Peterson Academy at the school’s Open House Community Day. The event, similar to many around APS this past weekend, served as an […]
Springdale Park Elementary (SPARK) students and parents got a chance to visit their classrooms and tour the school today at the second annual “SPARK Sneak Peek” back-to-school event. Students had the opportunity to spend time in their classrooms and interact with their teacher and classmates, while parents learned about after-school enrichment programs, signed up for […]
More than 2,000 math and science teachers converged on the Georgia World Congress Center this week to improve their skills through the two-day, third annual District-Focused Mathematics and Science event. The event also served as an opportunity to get teachers better acquainted with the third phase of the Georgia Performance Standards rollout of the new […]
The phenomenon that is Deonte Bridges continues, this time with a great profile in Sunday’s AJC by one of their top reporters, Mark Davis. In the article, Davis chronicles the exploits that led to the Washington High valedictorian’s graduation speech and his subsequent celebrity sparked the YouTube video we posted back on June 14. Since […]
Jeffrey Brown, a rising senior at The New Schools at Carver’s Early College, won a $4,000 Wilderness Scholarship from Outward Bound Atlanta that will be put toward a 21-day hike in the North Carolina mountains in July 2010. This won’t be the first time for Brown, who’s gone on a couple hikes with the program […]
Sutton Middle School and Warren T. Jackson Elementary became the third and fourth schools in APS to earn bronze medal National Recognition Awards from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. They were two of only 11 Georgia schools to be so honored. The medals are awarded to schools for their wellness efforts, from nutrition to […]
Deonte Bridges is just one of several Atlanta Public Schools graduates who had a story behind his years of hard work. Bridges, valedictorian for Booker T. Washington High’s Senior Academy, truly captured the essence of his challenges his speech graduation at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. And APS’ Department of Learning Technologies was there […]
As the head of Forrest Hill Academy, Tricia Rock (pictured at right, with student) is a principal whose job it is to get her students out of her school even sooner than usual. And by measurable data, she’s getting really good and getting her students out – and back into the “home” schools that sent […]
Update: Check out the photo gallery here. Dunbar Elementary students celebrated the end of the school year with a little face painting, potato sack racing and the electric slide during Field Day on Tuesday. More than 35 parents also lent their support, donning Dunbar T-shirts and corralling excited students between events. “I can’t explain how […]