Tiedra Hutchings, Crim Open Campus’ 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year, is attending the HistoryMakers 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute on African American Political History, through July 31. Hutchings was the only teacher in Georgia to be awarded the NEH scholarship for The HistoryMakers Education Institute, as well as being one out […]
Do you have any idea how amazing and enriching the Atlanta Education Fund‘s Atlanta Fund for Teachers‘ fellowships are? Then maybe you were elsewhere while we ran this past falls “What I Did This Summer” series that allowed the APS grant recipients to tell in their own words what they out of the experience. Everyone was able […]
We conclude our incredibly enlightening and popular “How I Spent My Summer” series that chronicles the experiences of the Fund For Teachers grant recipients through the Atlanta Education Fund. Finally: E. Rivers Elementary teacher Terri Dunson, who traveled to China for a kind of panda adventure you definitely won’t get at the Atlanta Zoo — […]
Our “How I Spent My Summer” series follows the experiences of teachers who were awarded the Fund for Teachers grant through the Atlanta Education Fund. Next up: Last year’s APS Teacher of the Year Charon Kirkland (pictured above) of Carter G. Woodson Elementary and her team member, Scott Elementary‘s Lorrae Walker. The pair traveled to […]
We continue our series “How I Spent My Summer” looking at how APS teachers used their Atlanta Education Fund’s Fund for Teachers grant. Next up: Grady High School Latin teacher Amy Leonard, who did “Roman Holiday” one better with a heckuva learning experience in Italy. Ms. Leonard describes her story after the jump …
Our “How I Spent My Summer” continues with Xylecia Taylor, a third-grade teacher at Dobbs Elementary. Taylor used her Fund for Teachers grant (through the Atlanta Education Fund) for a trip to Ghana, where she was involved in a range of activities including learning how to harvest bio-diesel fuel. Here’s her story, in her own words … […]
We continue our series on how APS teachers spent their summer. Next up: Maynard H. Jackson High math teacher Neville McFarlane, who used his Fund for Teachers grant (through the Atlanta Education Fund) to attend a photovoltaic and installation workshop in Colorado. What’s a photovoltaic and installation workshop, you ask? So did we. Here’s Mr. McFarlane’s […]
We continue our series of stories from teachers who spent their summer using their Atlanta Fund for Teachers grant (through the Atlanta Education Fund). Next up: Beverly Easterling, teacher at Kennedy Middle School. Ms. Easterling used her grant for a trip to South Africa, where she studied racial reconciliation. She titled her essay “Seeking Wealth in […]
We continue our focus on teachers and how they spent their summer with yet another winner of the Atlanta Fund for Teachers grant, Sydney Butler (above right) of Alonzo A. Crim Open Campus High School. The grant is sponsored by the Atlanta Education Fund. Ms. Butler traveled to Spain for an international conference on special […]