Alonzo Crim Open Campus High School’s mathematics teacher, Rodney Finkley, has been awarded the 2014 Innovative Grant from the Georgia Educational Technology Consortium (GaETC) and the 2013-2014 School In-Service Training Grant from Mathematics Education Trust (MET). Finkley traveled to Indonesia this past summer for Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, and is proposing to use the […]
Dunbar Elementary School recently announced new partnerships with The North Georgia Central Labor Council and Georgia State AFL-CIO. The Georgia State AFL-CIO awarded Dunbar a $5,000 grant. Dunbar Elementary was one of 20 schools in the country to receive this grant, which was written by fifth-grade teacher Remona Toomes. This four-year partnership will include participating in […]
Fickett Elementary School received a $25,000 grant from The UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of UPS. The grant will be used toward the implementation of a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program that will help expose students to career paths such as engineering, robotics, computer science, and medicine. “We are extremely grateful for the […]
Bejanae Kareem, a second grade teacher at Parkside Elementary, honed her grant writing skills and recently received over $4000 in grant money. Ms. Kareem submitted the grant request after she realized that she needed extra funding in order to carry out special projects for her class. “It has been a challenge to find funding for special […]
Tech High School has been awarded a $4,500 Mini Grant for Professional Development by the Ford Motor Company Fund. This grant will allow the technology based APS charter school to cover the cost of training teachers, providing them access to the Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies curriculum resources that integrate rigorous academic standards with real-world learning and 21st […]