SPECIAL SECTION | SEPTEMBER 16-29, 2016
Fall 2016
EDUCATION GUIDE Theater offers a part in ‘the ultimate group project’
HIL MOSIER
Sam Reed, left, a student at The Galloway School in Sandy Springs, rehearses for “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged,” in the school’s Chaddick Theater on Sept. 8. PHIL MOSIER
For some local high schoolers, plays really are the thing
Farm-to-cafeteria: Schools provide fresh local produce for lunch
BY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWIS
BY LESLIE JOHNSON
It says something about a high school class when a fire alarm goes off and nobody races gleefully for the door. Pace Academy theater teacher Sean Bryan said his “entire class moaned in great frustration” when a fire drill sounded during a recent acting class. His students were
doing their daily warmup — mimicking the leader of the moment in interpreting music through movement. “They were frustrated because they were having a blast,” Bryan said. On top of that, darn it, they had to put their shoes back on. See FOR on page 2
Here’s some food for thought: For thousands of metro Atlanta schoolchildren, the proverbial apple-a-day may come from just around the corner, thanks to a national farm-to-school initiative. In fact, healthy produce on the school lunch menu could be sprouting from as
close as a school garden that students help maintain and harvest, within a few hours’ drive on a Georgia farm or a stone’s throw regionally, in Florida or North Carolina. Since 2011, the school nutrition programs in the DeKalb and Fulton systems have participated in the National Farm to See FARM on page 14
TURNAROUND STRATEGIES Challenges for public schools
FAILING SCHOOLS Gov. Deal proposes state takeover
BACK-TO-SCHOOL COSTS Expect to pay more
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