Education
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In-Depth
Morgan County High School Teacher Implements Sustainability into Agriculture Curriculum
Rachel Kinsaul is currently in her sixth year of teaching agriculture classes at Morgan County High School. She chooses to implement sustainable agriculture into her curriculum in multiple ways to benefit different types of learners, with a strong focus on experiential learning. One way Kinsaul does this is by taking…
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Athens-Clarke County
Local School Lunch Program Expands To Continue Feeding Children During Pandemic
The USDA recently announced that it will extend school lunches for the summer of 2021 due to Covid-19. This past school year, the school system developed a flexible model for distributing school lunches which included in person, curbside, and home delivery. School nutritionists in Athens-Clarke County worked to ensure that…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Reuse is Taking Junk, Turning it into Treasure For Teachers — And Now Creatives
The Athens Teacher Reuse Store off of College Avenue is the place to be for local public, private and homeschool educators needing classroom supplies in Clarke, Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and Oglethorpe counties. Everything is free, and the only form of payment required is a document, like a teacher ID,…
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Education
Plan After Graduation? Jackson County Schools Prepare Students For Life After High School
The question that haunts seniors everywhere — what are your plans after you graduate? Many seniors in Jackson County said they feel more prepared to answer that question after numerous efforts and initiatives by the school system. With a graduation rate of 93.5%, the Jackson County School System has been…
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Athens-Clarke County
How Pandemic Learning Affected Athens Student Teacher, Her Third-Graders
After her long Thursday afternoon teaching meeting, Gaines Elementary School student teacher, Emily Turner, 21, sat down at her computer to talk to Autumn Sanford about the hardships her third-graders faced while adapting to Zoom learning. Autumn Sanford is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in…
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Education
UGA’s COVID-19 Learning Formats Yield Benefits, Obstacles
The University of Georgia has instituted a variety of classroom instructional formats, which have posed both benefits and obstacles to the success of its students’ learning experiences since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The fall 2020 semester was spent mostly online because of the uncertainty that the pandemic brought for…
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Doing Journalism
The Lead: Ralitsa Vassileva On Communicating Well
UGA lecturer of journalism and former anchor with CNN International Ralitsa Vassileva joins us to talk about her career journey and comunication.
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Education
World Education Program Comes to Jackson County School System
Junior Michael Howard is taking six International Baccalaureate (IB) classes this year at Jackson County Comprehensive High School. His cohort is the first to study this new curriculum after the school became an authorized IB World School in October 2019. “I noticed that it is a good bit more rigorous,”…
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Barrow County
Barrow County Board of Education Looks to Finalize Teacher Vaccine Strategy
A priority for the Barrow County School System, from the beginning of the pandemic, has been to keep teachers and students safe. With vaccine rollout now underway, the school district is looking to utilize it for their educators. Ken Greene, assistant superintendent for support services in the Barrow County School…
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Diversity
Athens-Area Private Schools offering In-Person Instruction Experience Changes in Enrollment
Private schools in Athens experienced both decreases and increases in enrollment before the school year began as they offer in-person classes. COVID-19 Case Tracker Overview There have been no reported positive cases of coronavirus at Downtown Academy, Waseca Montessori School or Double Helix. Athens Christian School has had only two…