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Michelle Wirth

On Monday, Aug. 20, First Lady Sandra Deal paid a visit to Centennial Academy and Westside Atlanta Charter School. The special school stops were part of the First Lady’s “Read Across Georgia” initiative. The program supports Gov. Nathan Deal’s goal to increase the percentage of children who can read at grade level by the time they […]

Georgia Charter Schools Association is pleased to announce that Sydney Chaffee, the first charter school teacher selected as National Teacher of the Year, will serve as a keynote speaker for the 2019 Georgia Charter Schools Conference! GCSA’s conference will take place in Savannah, Feb. 13-15, 2019, at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. Register now! […]

**REGISTER NOW** Help your teachers start the year with fresh tools in their toolbox!  The GCSA Teacher Symposium: Creating a Culture of Engagement in the Classroom is ideal for new and veteran teachers who are looking to engage with other educators and explore strategies to create classrooms where curiosity is fostered and students are motivated to actively engage in […]

Georgia Cyber Academy begins the school year with a new Head of School and a significant number of changes. The changes come as Georgia Cyber Academy seeks renewal from the State Charter Schools Commission in 2019. School leaders say half of the more than 12,000 students who attend the school are being served well. But […]

Elisa Falcó has been promoted to GCSA’s Executive Vice President of School Success. She began working with GCSA as a consultant in the area of quality initiatives. Then GCSA hired her as Director of Education & Training. In that role, she led the expansion of existing training programs as well as the development of new […]

Georgia Charter Schools Association is pleased to welcome RaShaun Holliman back to GCSA as Vice President of Policy and Advocacy. He most recently served as the Director of the Office of Community Schools at the Ohio Department of Education (ODE), the state office responsible for the oversight of Ohio’s charter schools and their authorizers.  His […]

As the 2018-2019 school year gets underway, Georgia Charter Schools Association is excited to welcome more than a dozen new charter school leaders to public charter schools throughout Georgia. New leadership gives schools an opportunity to set fresh goals, visions and to build on successful programs that were previously implemented. GCSA is excited to work with and support […]

Join GCSA for “The State of Georgia Charter Schools” on Friday, August 31st in Albany and Friday, September 7th in Savannah. This meeting is for school leaders and board members of all Georgia public charter schools. As we kick off a new school year together, this will be a perfect time to network with other school leaders, GCSA team members, and representatives from the Georgia Department of Education (Charter Division) […]

The Georgia Charter Schools Association is one of the leading providers of GaTAPP, a performance-based, job-embedded teacher preparation program designed to assist Georgia educators with alternative certification. The program is designated for teachers who are employed by a Georgia school but are not traditionally certified in a post-secondary college or university school of education. Teachers who […]

Eighth graders in all of Georgia’s public schools saw a slight increase in their End of Grade math scores on the Georgia Milestones in 2018. The percentage of eighth-grade students who scored proficient or higher on the test went up by 0.1 percentage points. The score is a key indicator of whether students are ready […]

On July 25, the State Charter Schools Commission approved four new charter schools: Ethos Classical, Harriet Tubman School of Science and Technology, The Community Academy for Architecture and Design (TCAAD) and Yi Hwang Academy. Three of the approved schools are GCSA incubator schools and the fourth is a GCSA member that received support through the petitioning process. […]

The Georgia Charter Schools Association wants for all Georgia public charter school leaders and board members to join us for the “State of Georgia Charter Schools” in one of the following locations: Monday, Aug. 20 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Atlanta; Friday, Aug. 31 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Albany; or […]