Help for Haiti seems to be springing up all around Atlanta Public Schools, from pennies to dollars to blankets and clothing. The level of caring and giving rises with each day as students, faculty, staff, parents and community supporters rally to the nation’s aid. For example, what started out as a hallway conversation among teachers at […]
Walter L. Parks Middle School students are currently participating in a Community History Project titled “Sankofa.” This is an educational collaboration between the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. This creative project will train the Parks students on how to research, document, and record via digital/video camera the Pittsburgh community. Students […]
Did you know that Oct. 23-31 was National Red Ribbon Week? Each year, millions of students across the country don red ribbons to promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle. To underscore that message, the counseling department at Parks Middle School joined with the Communities in Schools program and the West End Medical Center to help students […]
The visit by Parks Middle School students and faculty to Canada is the gift that keeps on giving. The school will welcome author, educator and poet Dr. Afua Cooper (right), who will visit on Sept. 14. Dr. Cooper will appear at visual-arts classroom from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cooper is a noted historian and is the author […]