Atlanta Public Schools students improved their performance by four percentage points and eliminated the achievement gap between the district and students around the state on the new Georgia Grade 8 Writing Assessment in 2011. Also, 83 percent of APS eighth-graders scored at “meets” or “exceeds” standards levels. The results indicate steady improvement by APS students to […]
More than 2,000 math and science teachers converged on the Georgia World Congress Center this week to improve their skills through the two-day, third annual District-Focused Mathematics and Science event. The event also served as an opportunity to get teachers better acquainted with the third phase of the Georgia Performance Standards rollout of the new […]
We had a blast out at the Math & Science District Focused Professional Learning workshop that began today and concludes Thursday at the Georgia World Congress Center. Here we had a chance to meet Deerwood Academy fourth-grade teacher Joycelyn McCulley, who explained the seminar she delivered to her peers on the Georgia Performance Standards curriculum […]
Hutchinson Elementary will host its annual Wellness Field Day on Friday. All of the grade levels, including pre-K, along with the educational partners, the PTA and the parent patrol will sponsor a booth with snacks for the students. The students can earn “Hutch Bucks” valued from $1 to $5 to purchase the snacks. (Learn more […]
You have to admire the students, faculty and staff of Long Middle School for not taking it easy for the remainder of the school year, as they focused on their third annual environmental project. The theme, “Evolving Environmentally,” allowed students create dioramas or eco-friendly structures that would support their research on the environment. Each class […]
Morningside Elementary School fifth-graders have been visiting the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum for more than 15 years in conjunction with the Georgia Performance Standards unit on World War II. Last year, 15 Morningside fifth-graders took part in the 70th anniversary commemoration of Kristallnacht at The Temple on Peachtree Street. This year, the […]
Frank L. Stanton Elementary fourth-graders will receive a valuable environment lesson when they hop on Georgia State University’s BioBus on Thursday morning in the school parking lot. Students will learn about “Water in the Environment in a session that will run from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. The water module provides several visual and hands-on activities that teach […]
The Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing (HTM) small learning community at Douglass High School is raising the bar. For the 2009-2010 school year Tonya Fulton, HTM teacher and Stephanie Bailey, academy leader of HTM were granted $30,000 from the Michael Jordan Grant Foundation to develop a “HTM Career Laboratory” for students of this SLC. The HTM Laboratory will […]