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School site visits will be
offered free of charge on Thursday and Friday.
Advance
registration is highly recommended. Onsite registration will be offered
on a space available basis. Read the following descriptions of the sites
offered and
click here to register for the school site visit(s) of your choice.
Parkside Elementary School
Thursday
9:00 a.m.
For Parkside Elementary (Thursday) and Inman Middle School (Friday), the
bus will leave at 8:45 am to reach the schools at 9 am. The bus will
return to the hotel at 11:00 am.
Parkside Elementary is on the threshold of becoming a museum magnet
school, which will involve the staff and students in various cultural
arts adventures. Parkside also collaborates with various universities,
the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and Fernbank Science Museum. Parkside has
an enrollment of 430 students, K-5, ninety percent of whom are eligible
to receive free/reduced price lunches.
Parkside’s Goal:
Parkside Elementary ensures that each student is offered a quality
education in a safe and caring environment.
Educational experiences at Parkside provide
students with a global perspective and an appreciation for cultural
diversity, involve them in an academically challenging curriculum, and
prepare them to be creative users of technology. We maximize each
student’s growth and development through the collaborative effort of the
school, the home, the community, and our business partners, with the
ultimate goal of our students becoming productive citizens.
Neighborhood Charter School (NCS)
Thursday p.m.
For
the Neighborhood Charter School (Thursday) and Harmony Leland Elementary
School (Friday), the bus will leave at 11:45 am to reach the schools at
12 noon. The bus will return to the hotel at 2:00 pm.
The NCS
effort is grounded in the belief that all children can be successful
learners and that parents, guardians, and the local community hold
primary responsibility to ensure that all children in their neighborhood
school have access to and success in public education. Closely aligned
with that philosophy is the belief that a public school should be the
meeting place where a socially, racially, and economically diverse area
knits its many strands into a single tapestry of community. Their
approach has four primary components:
1.
Involvement of Parents, Guardians, and Family
2.
Community/Diversity
3.
Constructivism
4.
Educational Partnerships
NCS is
a site-based management school and uses a multicultural curriculum. The
Parent Diversity Committee and school faculty join together to ensure
that diversity is respected.
Inman Middle School
Friday a.m.
Inman
Middle School stands out as one of the top-ranked middle schools in the
state. It is a National School of Excellence and a Georgia School of
Excellence honoree. Inman placed fourth in the nation in the National
Academic League competition. Inman students exceeded every state CRCT
score in every grade for language arts, reading, math, science, and
social studies. The students also excel in writing. Over one-third of
Inman’s students participate in the Gifted and Talented Program. Inman
Middle School has 30 extra-curricular clubs. The school has an
International Awareness Club. Inman students have excelled and won
awards in a variety of activities: debate, band, orchestra, chorus,
girls’ and boys’ soccer, chess, Math Congress, and Science Fair. Inman’s
photography club has been supported by a grant from the Arthur Blank
foundation for three years in a row and mounted an exhibition at the
Federal Reserve Bank gallery. Inman’s Junior Beta Club raised over
15,000 pounds of food for the Atlanta Food Bank and has plans for a
spring book drive for schools with needy media centers. Inman Middle
School students have much ethnic and linguistic diversity.
Harmony Leland Elementary School
Friday, pm
The
staff at Harmony Leland Elementary School envisions their school as a
place that fosters a life-long love of learning with appreciation and
acceptance of diversity through rigorous and relevant academic and fine
arts educational experiences. The
Leonard
Bernstein Center approach combines the fundamentals of artistic process
and classical education with effective teaching practices and curriculum
design. Teaching is based on four principles:
1.
Learning springs from engaging experiences.
2.
Children inquire when they are interested.
3. They
start to love learning when they actually create something.
4. They
begin to master subjects when they reflect thoughtfully.
These
four principles, modeled on artistic process, support research which
reveals that creating art in any subject improves the quality of
education and develops critical thinking skills. This type of learning
builds workforce skills and cultivates core values to support our
culture. At Harmony Leland, we are fortunate to be the only
elementary
Leonard
Bernstein Performing Arts School in
GA. We are fully supported by our Cobb County Schools officials who
have generously provided a strings program. Each child receives
violin instruction by a highly trained Suzuki instructor.
Harmony
Leland Elementary School has a diverse student body.
To register for these visits
click here:
http://www.viethconsulting.com/members/nameevreg.php
For
questions regarding the educational site visits, please contact
eliza@nameorg.org.
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