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 […]
Here’s a great video from our coverage of Principals’ Academy held Thursday at Douglass High School. (Check out the blog post below.) Kudos to our intern, Lyntoria Newton, who serves as the executive producer of this video in collaboration with our media production team of Scott King and Armon Moore.
No, the principal and staff at Boyd Elementary weren’t crazy from the summer heat. They figured the only sane way to ensure high attendance for the year-round school’s first day of school July 14 was to literally go door-to-door around the school’s neighborhoods. Only this way could they make sure that new and returning students […]
Gideons Elementary School‘s Junior Beta Club members participated in the 14th annual National Beta Club convention in Louisville, Ky., in late June. The students entered in several competition categories, including essay, arts & crafts, cross-stitching, scrapbooking and water coloring. Fifth-grader Jasmaine Tinsley won first place in the essay category. Her essay was one of 28 entries […]
UPDATE: See additional information on Julie Chartier here. Parkside Elementary teacher Armelia Ray Braddy was one of three Georgia physical-education teachers to be honored by HealthMPowers. Braddy received the first HealthMPowers Health Champion Award along with two other physical educators – Lisa Brown and Julie Chartier. HealthMPowers is a non-profit organization committed to promoting healthy […]
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 […]
Deerwood Academy became the eighth school in Atlanta Public Schools to be awarded International Baccalaureate (IB) certification. The elementary school, located in the Ben Hill neighborhood of southwest Atlanta, became the first school in APS outside the IB pipeline that runs schools on the north side of the metro Atlanta area and culminates at North […]
UPDATE: Come see the students perform at the residency-ending recital on Friday night at 6 p.m. at Sutton Middle School. About 40 APS students have been joined by a handful of others at this week’s Juilliard Summer Jazz Residency, which launched its third year in its third home Monday, at Sutton Middle School. The program, a partnership […]