Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Monday, December 14, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
Common Sense Digital Citizenship Certification
Twenty eight Fulton County Schools have earned Common Sense
Digital Citizenship Certification, taking a major step in making sure students
have the skills they need to become responsible online. Fulton leads the nation
with the total number of schools becoming certified through the Common Sense
Education program. Schools receive certification after fulfilling several
requirements, including creating a digital citizenship vision, providing
professional development for teachers, delivering digital citizenship
instruction to students and engaging and educating parents. So far, 25,000 FCS
students have received digital citizenship instruction. For more information on the program, click
this link https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/certification-school.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015
AHS at the United Nations Conference
With over 660 delegates participating and representing over
195 countries in the Georgia State Model United Nations conference:
Alpharetta High School won third place and received the
Honorable Mention title for representing the Islamic Republic of Iran
throughout the UN.
Iran was represented by Rahul Ramesh, Achintya Arora, Nikhil
Havanur, Krishna Pari, Sawsan Selim, and Eisha Baig.
In addition, two of our delegates received the title of Best
Position Paper : Sawsan Selim representing the Islamic Republic of Iran and
Z'vonty Flugence representing the Republic of Trindad and Tobago.
Various committee specific outstanding efforts were awarded
to the Republic of Trindad and Tobago, represented by Harsh Patel, Rohan
Nuthakki, Kristin Graves, Mariana Matias, Muskan Raghuwanshi, Sitara Mysore,
and Z'vonty Flugence.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Congrats to the Speech Team!
Congratulations to the speech team for an excellent showing
at the Sequoyah Speech Meet this weekend. The following students placed in
individual competitions
Dramatic interpretation: Maya Nnaeto 2nd place
Humorous Interpretation: 1st place Anders Nelson, 2nd place
Emma Svitil, 3rd Lara Strydom, and 4th place Olivia Palmer
Duo Acting: 1st Sarah
Guzowski and Olivia Palmer, 2nd place Alex Atchison and Karthik Ramaswami, 3rd
place Sven Hedge and Blake Williams, 4th place Suma Yellamraju and Irene Velez,
5th place Brooke Bernstein and Cam Perkins
Impromptu Speaking: 1st place Emma Svital
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Faculty Awards
Please join me in celebrating our November Teacher of the
Month, Professional of the Month and PLC of the Month:
Teacher of the Month
– Katherine Rozei
The French
Exchange Program was such an incredible experience for AHS! Thanks Madame Rozei
for your leadership of this exciting exchange for our students and our school.
The memories and friendships made will stay with our students for a lifetime.
Thank you also for your leadership of the World Language department as
Department Chair. We appreciate all you do for our students, teachers and
school!
Professional of the
Month - Saida Dzaferovic
Saida (aka
Ms. D.) manages our Virtual Learning Lab with love and has been instrumental in
increasing the graduation rate at AHS. Thank you Ms. D. for all the extra time
and support you provide to our students who need to take additional classes to
graduate on time. Our students know you care about them and that you will do
everything you can to help them succeed. Your extra efforts truly make a
difference in the lives of our students! We appreciate you!
PLC of the Month –
Our AHS Counseling Team
Karen,
Keisha, Dee, Susan and Amy…we appreciate you! On this day that we celebrate
four years of increasing graduate rates, we must honor you. Thank you for all
you do to guide our students through high school and walk across the stage in
May. Each year, you end up working tirelessly to help seniors at-risk develop
that final plan to graduate while you are also writing hundreds of
recommendation letters to help students get accepted to the college of their
dreams. We appreciate all that you do for our students and know that you have
positively impacted the lives of so many AHS graduates! Thanks for all you do!
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