On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 6:00 p.m., Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education will hold it’s Community Meeting at 130 Trinity Avenue and we need you there. As you may know, there are currently two new charter schools looking to open in Atlanta by fall 2019: Ethos Classical and Harriet Tubman School of Science and Technology. Both schools have submitted…
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Extra Curricular Activities Lead Students to Success
“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I discovered the extra curricular activities that interested to me; theatre and music.” – Morgan Freeman Eric Stirgus recently wrote an article focusing on the effects on extra curricular programs on student performance. As a product of Atlanta Public Schools and former teacher, I know first hand the importance of…
Educators, We Have To Prioritize Teaching Students How To Resist and Organize
Students are going to remember what we said and what we did in our classrooms at this moment in history. They’ll remember if their teacher opted out of conversations about the unfair treatment of marginalized people, and if he or she ignored the hateful rhetoric seething through the gums of our new president. Students will say, “No we didn’t talk…