UPDATE: Check out Tom Dunn’s profile in the AJC! Inspiring doesn’t begin to describe the New York Times profile of King Middle School teacher Tom Dunn. The veteran defender of death-row inmates entered the teaching profession through Teach for America, and has been putting his unique blend of idealism and lawyer’s grit to help build […]
The annual Little Five Points Halloween Parade always seems to give Atlantans a nice head’s up that the ghoulish holiday is coming. And the freaks and geeks to lined Euclid Avenue in the bohemian neighborhood definitely got their fair share of costumes, face paint and general parade fun. But the real fun came from music […]
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) presents its first-annual Domecoming Football Classic Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Georgia Dome. The first game starts at 11 a.m. with Grady vs. St. Pius, followed by North Atlanta vs. Carver, Washington vs. Riverwood and Mays vs. Villa Rica. Current APS students and alumni of North Atlanta, Mays and Washington high […]
We continue our look at the APS Teachers of the Year with a mini-profile of the Elementary School Teacher of the Year, Morningside Elementary‘s Rachel Willis. Rachel Willis is a product of the Atlanta Public Schools system. After graduating from Grady High School, Willis received a bachelor of arts degree in government from Smith College. In […]
The AJC had a nice article on the Atlanta Board of Education’s winning the CUBE award for board governance in today’s print edition, but not online. Here’s the complete text: Atlanta’s school board has won a national award for excellence. The National School Board Association’s (NSBA) Council of Urban Boards of Education awarded the nine-member […]
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 […]
The National School Boards Association’s Council of Urban School Boards of Education (CUBE) has awarded the Annual 2009 Award for Urban School Board Excellence to the Atlanta Board of Education. The announcement came today at a special awards ceremony in Austin, Texas. Read the press release here.
Students from around Atlanta Public Schools took part in Jumpstart’s annual Read for the Record event, with Garden Hills and Towns elementary schools each hosting their own event and Finch and Venetian Hills elementary schools joining in on a larger event at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. Mike Beatty, commissioner for the Georgia Department […]
On Thursday, Jumpstart‘s Read for the Record will be a major part of Atlanta Public Schools’ day. There’s the major event planned at the Hyatt Regency (265 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta GA, 30303), in which guests will read from Eric Carle’s classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Guests readers include David Chandley, meteorologist from WSB-TB; Mike […]
Atlanta Public Schools’ Special Olympics master’s level softball team brought home gold medals by winning the state championship held Oct. 2-4 in Statesboro. After a grueling three-day competition, the team ended up No. 1 in the state of Georgia. APS Special Olympics athletes also competed in the softball-skills competition, winning gold, silver, bronze and fourth-place […]