(ATLANTA) October 2, 2019 – Fathers Incorporated (FI), activated its annual Million Fathers March (MFM) back-to-school father engagement project on Friday, September 27th. The launch of the day of activities took place at M. Agnes Jones Elementary in Atlanta. The Projected Impact of Nearly 446k Students,77,000 Dads in 82 Cities and 26 States Had a Reach of over 44.6 million…
Advocates for Teachers say APS Superintendent Search Needs to Be Transparent!
This article is originally covered here by Maureen Downey of AJC. Atlanta teacher advocacy group, AFT wants transparency with new search for the next leader of APS. The method use to seek out the current APS Superintendent is still a concern for APS parents and stakeholders. This includes long time voice for Atlanta teachers. AJC – Verdaillia Turner is an…
Johnathon Hines Becomes the First Black Male Teacher in Atlanta to Win Pre K Teacher of the Year
Original Post by: BecauseofThemWeCan A little sunshine to make you smile today! Johnathon Hines, an Atlanta Pre-K Teacher, just became the first African American man to win Pre-K Teacher of the Year in Georgia. Hines is a teacher at Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology in Atlanta, GA, the first public school in Dekalb County named for our…
Black Parents Cannot Afford to Lose Focus: Our Kids Have Suffered Enough.
Written by David Mitchell, Founder/CEO of Better Outcomes for Our Kids and partner of EdLanta. When you’re a parent thinking about what’s best for your child, I can only imagine the fear and anger one must have when watching the conversation happening between the Atlanta Board of Education and the current superintendent. After you shed yourself of those concerns, what…
A Million Black Fathers Marching for Zion
It may seem like a cliche, but a million Black fathers marching streets across America for their Black sons is empowering. But it’s not simply a cliche, it’s a nationwide movement of Black males doing something different to change the rate of Black boys being successful. Fathers Incorporated , a non profit organization in Atlanta, Georgia. is not only changing…
Customer Service Should Be a High Ranked Area for Schools; Sadly It’s Not!
If you have ever been into a Chick-fil-A restaurant, you know how welcomed you feel when you walk into the door. That’s the exact same feeling that children, parents and guests should have when they walk into a school. The main office of a school is the first place that guests come to; it’s the welcome and information center. It’s…
Family Engagement in Schools Is An Untapped Resource for the Success of Black Boys.
There’s a popular neighborhood saying, “family over everything”, which ironically is quite the opposite of what it actually happening with modern day American families in school Districts across the Nation. Pew Research Center stated in a recent article that “Two parent families are on the decline in America!” This statement is proven by the high rates of divorce, prison entry and death…