More than 500 stuents in APS’ Chinese-language program attended and performed at the annual Chinese New Year celebration, held this year at Maynard H. Jackson High School. In this “Year of the Tiger” celebration, Coan Middle students performed “The Story of Nian”; Jackson High students performed “Happy New Year”; Toomer Elementary students performed “Pulling Out […]
The students, faculty, staff and parents at Maynard H. Jackson High School collected more than 130 cases of bottled water for the “Fountain of Hope for Haiti” campaign. Initially, the goal was to collect 100 cases. However, exceeding the goal is validation that the school community is serious about involvement in humanitarian efforts. The campaign […]
Youth Entrepreneurs of Atlanta (YE-ATL), a privately funded business program hosted in public high schools, teaches students free-enterprise fundamentals through hands-on learning activities, including a final project of writing and presenting a workable business plan. During the spring, every YE-ATL student must complete and present a business plan. While students are encouraged to develop plans […]
More than 300 parents, community members and APS employees packed the gymnasium of Inman Middle School on Monday to hear Superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall’s report on SRT-3 schools. Atlanta Board of Education members Emmett D. Johnson, Cecily Harsch-Kinnane (vice chair), Brenda Muhammad and Mark Riley were present. The superintendent talked about the district’s work […]
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, […]
GE employees have been working with Maynard H. Jackson High School for more than 20 years. The GE/Jackson High School Mentoring Program is in its third year of activity and the program kick-off was held last month. The GE Mentoring Program is a critical component of the positive impact GE has on the students at […]
UPDATE: Hilaire Anelone photo gallery here. Atlanta Public Schools is proud to announce its Teacher of the Year, Hilaire Anelone of Maynard H. Jackson High. (Mr. Anelone also represents Jackson as the High School Teacher of the Year). Born and raised in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Anelone came to the United States to complete an engineering […]
Earlier this month, more than 150 enthusiastic APS students attended the 2009 Engineering, Architecture, and Construction Career Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center. Sponsored by the Career and Technical Education (CTE) department of the Office of High Schools, the primary purpose of the conference was to motivate students to achieve at higher levels while […]
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 […]
You may recall Zicuria Ussery (above right), the student at Maynard H. Jackson High who won the APS district-wide 2009 Youth Entrepreneurs Atlanta (YEA) Business Plan Competition with a blueprint to open a smoothie cart in the school cafeteria. (See press release here.) Well, check out the latest, from the AJC‘s Gracie Bonds Staples … […]