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The Georgia BioEd Institute’s Summer Biotech Immersion program, sponsored by local biopharma company UCB, provided a laboratory-intensive professional learning experience to eight high school biology/biotechnology teachers on June 4-8, 2018. If funded for summer 2019, the pilot program is intended to become an annual offering for Georgia educators from Georgia Bio, the state’s life sciences industry association.
Designed to help stakeholders better understand the policy environment surrounding current school discipline practices in our country. This compendium provides information on school discipline laws and administrative regulations for the United States, including the 50 States, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.
ATLANTA (CBS46) — After a wave of student violence, metro communities are looking to solutions for school safety.
Wednesday night, a townhall at Banneker High School addressed concerns and preventative measures for its campus and beyond.
In Fulton County, a child brought a loaded gun to school on Wednesday. In Bibb County, four students died by suicide this school year, one of them an elementary student.
The superintendents from those school districts and others shared such stories with Gov. Brian Kemp to illustrate the seriousness of the safety issues they are confronting. Kemp called the meeting, which was held at the governor’s mansion on Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a resolution agreement with Forsyth County Schools (district) in Georgia concerning whether the removal of books from its school libraries created a hostile environment for students based on sex, race, color, or national origin under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded more than $7.6 million to support public safety and community justice activities in the Middle District of Georgia. The grants, from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), will help build community capacity to curb violence, serve victims and youth, improve behavioral health response, expand officer safety and support evidence-based juvenile justice strategies.
Tracey Smith, principal of Brookwood Elementary School in Georgia, shared with eSchool News her strategies for helping teachers take ownership of their work and helping students take control of their learning by creating a more positive learning culture.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Explains how schools and districts can create a continuum map to graphically document all of the supports available to students across content areas and identify which students receive those supports across three tiers. Continuum maps can help stakeholders understand the activities and resources available in a school or district.