Media specialists focused on how to better use authors and literacy in their work at the fifth annual Media Summit held Wednesday at IBM. The teachers learned about the nuances of digital copyrighting from Barry Britt, director of copyright compliance for Soundzabound; held a grant-writing session for the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries; watched […]
Parkside Elementary School is taking a closer look at the unique ways that boys and girls learn. Recent brain science studies revealed that boys and girls do not always learn the same way, and actually benefit from different approaches to teaching. When teaching does not address the different learning styles, children suffer, especially boys. According […]
Two teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools system got the most pleasant surprise of the new school year on Tuesday when OfficeMax provided each with $1,000 worth of supplies for the classrooms. White Elementary‘s Benita Edwards and Parkside Elementary‘s Ronnie Thomas had been nominated by their principals in the annual “A Day Made Better” sponsored […]
Two Atlanta Public Schools elementary school teachers have been selected to receive more than $1,000 in classroom supplies as part of the annual “A Day Made Better” program by OfficeMax on Oct. 6. White and Parkside elementary schools teachers were nominated by their principals, and are among more than 1,000 educators at schools across […]