The Dunbar Learning Complex, a model for early learning education located inside of Dunbar Elementary School, helps children and their parents build a solid foundation for success in school and life. Educare Atlanta is located on the first floor of Dunbar Elementary School, and teachers and staff from both schools collaborate to align curriculum from […]
Students in kindergarten and 1st Grade at Dunbar Elementary School join Sheltering Arms in their Operation Storybook event this year. On September 13th & 14th, volunteers took shifts in the morning to visit the classrooms and read stories to the children. Operation StoryBook is Sheltering Arms’ year-round literacy initiative with a yearly kick-off in all […]
UPDATE: Watch an extended video here. Check out the photo gallery here. Dunbar Elementary served as a host site for Wells Fargo to celebrate its entry into Atlanta in grand fashion when the bank brought in its legendary stagecoach and horses Tuesday for an event that also celebrated the work of local nonprofits. Select students were allowed […]
In the first public-private partnership of its kind in metro Atlanta, APS celebrated the grand opening (photos) of an Early Learning and Literacy Resource Center (ELLRC) housed at Dunbar Elementary. Funded by partners such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation and the Atlanta Housing Authority, the facility provides an educational […]
WSB-TV news anchor Monica Pearson has some fierce competition waiting in the wings. Dunbar Elementary fifth-grader Angel Evans did a great job interviewing Patrick McCarthy, CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation today. (Check out the photos and click here for the interview.) McCarthy is in town to celebrate the grand opening on Friday of […]
The Annie E. Casey Foundation – Atlanta Civic Partners’ Forum on the Grade Level Reading Initiative was held Dec. 9 to launch a pilot literacy initiative. The focus of the public-private initiative is to move APS students from meeting state educational standards to exceeding them. Piloted at Dunbar Elementary School, the initiative also seeks to improve […]