The Business of Education
APS Today broadcasts from the Center for Learning and Leadership with a look at the “business” of education.
Fain Playground: It may look like child’s play, but it took a team of business partners from Home Depot, the National Business school students signed up for the Arts Cool program, they may not have known that their instructor Aviation Association and KaBOOM! Playgrounds to provide more than $110,000 and a team of volunteers who built a 2,500-square-foot playground for the students at Margaret Fain Elementary School in just one day!
APS Youth Entrepreneurs: In its second year in Atlanta Public Schools, Youth Entrepreneurs of Atlanta, in association with the Georgia Pacific Foundation, is bringing its hands-on business experiences to three more APS high schools, adding future business leaders from Grady, Douglass and Washington high schools to the YE-ATL participants at Mays and Southside high schools.
Newsbriefs: Topping the APS Today roster of stories this month-
- 100 Health Science students got a lesson in trauma surgery at Morehouse School of Medicine
- Grady High School celebrates student talent at its outdoor fall festival
- Civic and business leaders go to “training camp” to prepare for the Principal for a Day Program
- SRT-4 Executive Director Dr. Gloria Patterson is honored as an education trailblazer by Women Looking Ahead Magazine
Kathy Cox Constitution Day: State School Superintendent Kathy Cox brought a high-energy Constitution Day lesson to students at Crim Open Campus High School.
Atlanta Reads: What do you do when the internationally acclaimed author you were expecting calls in sick, your co-host gets stuck in traffic and you have an auditorium filled with enthusiastic APS students? That’s when Atlanta Reads shows its creativity.
Project GRAD: Our final story is about the lengths to which some students will go to get a college education and the lengths that their mentors will go to support them.
