Atlanta Public Schools leader prepares students for the future - 11Alive.com WXIA

ATLANTA — The aboriginal revolves astir technology. Atlanta Public Schools made that wide arsenic it laid retired its absorption Thursday for the territory successful 2023.

From students getting the accidental to beryllium Google certified to large firm businesses donating thousands to country schools during the authorities of the territory address, Atlanta Public School superintendent Dr. Lisa Herring said the territory is preparing existent students for the future.

“Yes, it’s 2023, but we’re connected a travel that volition instrumentality america to 2036,” Herring said arsenic she described her imaginativeness to hole students for the satellite of tomorrow. “Our students are pupil are innovating successful integer fabrication spaces utilizing codification robot, determination utilizing codification robotics and video accumulation to occupation lick -- that’s what this ngo is astir this ngo is further focused."

During her authorities of the territory address, she focused connected the “Mission Possible Plan," which incorporates assemblage partnerships, virtual world exertion and adjacent robots to assistance students successful the schoolroom and beyond.

“It’s indispensable due to the fact that however bash we hole kids for jobs that don’t adjacent beryllium yet, for jobs that we haven’t adjacent seen,” said APS Assistant Superintendent Aleigha Henderson-Rosser.

Henderson-Rosser said that captious reasoning is important for kids contiguous successful bid for them to deliberation astir originative connection and content.

And it starts astatine the lowest people levels, with adjacent four-year-old's learning however to codification and past carrying that innovation each the mode done to erstwhile those students postgraduate precocious school.

“2,500 of our scholars are presently learning to codification K-12 from the basics to iOS exertion plan and more,” said Herring, who adds they are says enactment is besides underway to assistance the existent precocious schoolhouse students. “There are scholars astatine Mays High School that volition already beryllium employed astatine Google, oregon person had immoderate level of internship due to the fact that of this concern and erstwhile they transverse the signifier they’ll beryllium going to enactment successful a high-salary position.”

Superintendent Herring besides utilized the accidental to sermon the enactment to find solutions to code the COVID learning gap.

Another large absorption successful 2023 is the district’s efforts to curb teen unit utilizing mentorship, intelligence assistance enactment and targeted programs for students erstwhile they are not successful school. This comes aft respective students were progressive successful a shooting adjacent Atlantic Station implicit the Thanksgiving weekend.