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There are at least a hundred reasons to get excited about the great things happening in APS. What is the best way for me to celebrate my 100th blog posting? By celebrating our students of course! Take a look at a few awesome highlights from around the district. Two North Atlanta video broadcast students, Jada…
→KIPP Strive Primary was my first stop during school visits this past Friday. I visited the adjacent middle school, KIPP Strive Academy recently to give out AFAEE awards, but this was my first time on the primary side of the building. From the moment you walk into their beautiful Beltline adjacent facility, you are greeted…
→By now, you know that I truly believe that the social and emotional learning of students is equally as important as their academic success. This week we celebrate School Psychology Awareness Week in our district and we are featuring conversations with several school psychologists on our Talk Up APS blog. The article features several of…
→I spent time Friday at Beecher Hills Elementary School, an IB Primary Years Programme neighborhood school with 360 students in grades PK-5 that feeds into J.C. Young Middle School and Mays High School. The school has a great sense of community. It sits on the Atlanta Beltline and the staff likes to walk on the…
→Today, as a nation, we say a collective thank you to the 21.4 million veterans who have served and protected our country during times of war and peace. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed November 11th as Veterans Day in 1954 to “…preserve our heritage of freedom.” Atlanta Public Schools is proud to have many of…
→I am pleased to announce the members of our three new stakeholder advisory and oversight committees: Finance and Budget Advisory Committee, Special Education Advisory Committee, and SPLOST Oversight Committee. Last month, I announced that we were creating the committees as part of our broader community engagement work in Atlanta Public Schools. We asked individuals who are…
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