UPDATE: View photo gallery here. Watch video here. The second annual Neighborhood Celebration provided Atlanta Public Schools to showcase the schools in the southeast Atlanta neighborhoods that feed into host school Maynard H. Jackson High School, on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. The school halls were filled with representatives from the participating schools as well […]
We’re getting really excited about Saturday’s Neighborhood Celebration at Maynard H. Jackson High School (1 p.m.-4 p.m.), which will showcase the southeast Atlanta schools in APS. We’ve spent the past couple weeks offering glimpses at what these participating schools have to offer our students, and it’s a pretty diverse array. But particularly special is the […]
It’s time to take another look at Atlanta Public Schools. This year, the focus of our second-annual Neighborhood Celebration will be southeast Atlanta schools that feed into Maynard H. Jackson High, which will host festivities on Oct. 2. Part pep rally part celebration, this event allows community members to see just a few of the exciting […]
GE Vice Chairman John Rice spent the morning at Toomer Elementary School with Caitlin Hickey‘s kindergarten class learning all about the ritual of their daily morning meeting and listening to them count in Mandarin to showcase Toomer’s participation in the Confucius Institute. “I feel so glad that I finally got a chance to meet you,” he told the kindergarteners. […]
Students from around Atlanta Public Schools and partners from both Emory University and Nanjing University came together as part of the Confucius Institute‘s 2009 Mid-Autumn Festival held Thursday at the Atlanta Confucius Institute, which is housed at Coan Middle. Performers ranged from Coan and the four other APS participating schools: Toomer Elementary and Carver School of the Arts, […]