by Kimberly Willis Green Eight Atlanta Public Schools (APS) eighth grade students were named REACH (Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen) Georgia Scholars and participated in the REACH Statewide Signing Day Ceremony with APS Superintendent Meria J. Carstarphen, Ed.D, Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal, and members of the Atlanta Board of Education. The APS REACH Scholars, […]
by Kimberly Green, Public Relations Manager kwgreen@atlanta.k12.ga.us Georgia first lady Sandra Deal greeted students at Atlanta Public Schools’ Dunbar Elementary as Athens-based Books for Keeps distributed 12 free books to each student April 30 to encourage summer reading at home. Dunbar Elementary was selected as the Atlanta location for Books for Keeps in partnership with APS […]
Kindergarten and first-grade students at Usher-Collier Heights listened in fascination last week as Georgia’s first lady, Sandra Deal, read the book, “Who I’d Like to Be.” Georgia resident Elizabeth Brown wrote the book at age 90, and her eight-year-old great-granddaughter illustrated the book, which is about a boy who dreams of being different animals and […]
On February 7th, Perkerson Elementary had a former school teacher and now First Lady visit their elementary school. Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal spent some time with the Kindergarten class at Perkerson. She read a poem (Learning to Read) and a book (Who I’d Like to Be) to the attentive and active kindergarteners at Perkenson […]