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MLK Sr. Community Resources Collaborative awarded $4 million to address education disparities
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – New money is now pouring into The Martin Luther King Sr. Community Resource Collaborative to help kids get a better education in Atlanta Public Schools.
The organization received the grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research Grant (EIR). The grant was given to organizations for educational innovation, research, and development of new solutions. The group will use a curriculum that is culturally responsive, which will address cultures, home languages, and more.
Shadeed Abdul-Salaam at Morehouse College said this is needed now more than ever, especially for underserved students.
“There’s been a lot of fall off that occurred in multiple communities because of access, because of tools, because of resources, teacher shortages,” Abdul-Salaam said. “Our goal is to design something that we know that has a special impact on our community,” he said.
According to a press release sent on the behalf of the organization, there will be a focus on students of color, English language learners, students with disabilities, students living in poverty and kids facing economic challenges or trauma.
Morehouse and Spelman College experts and students will provide teachers with training and support. They will also be co-developers of the curriculum.
“We’re actually going to be designing and creating a curriculum that’s based on social and emotional learning, that really is getting at the whole child. So, we’re looking at just engaging students to help them understand concept emotionally, socially, intellectually,” said Dr. Nicole Taylor, Associate Professor and Chair for the Education Department at Spelman College. “We’ll also be working with other partners such as CWK, which is Connect with Kids. They’re a top digital firm, educational organization and they really have mastered the art of storytelling through technology,” she said.
The project will be called, “Sankofa Chronicles: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum from American Diasporas.”
“We’re really going to be looking at the diasporas, in the sense that we’re really going to be trying to connect students with things that they are familiar with—in terms of culturally, just looking at those who look like them, and just really trying to teach them through those lenses,” Taylor said.
It’s a multi-media curriculum that will include short-form documentaries and other text to help tell stories in the community that has a rich heritage.
“Looking at the stories of our people, looking at the stories of their people and really be able to grasp just concepts,” Taylor said. “Whether it’s humility or self-regulation, or emotional regulation or resilience through the people and their community,” she said.
Taylor said that through storytelling, students will be understanding the past and current history while moving towards the future.
“A lot of it goes back to if you don’t understand or roots, or foundation where you came from, then it’s hard to continue in the future to know what is needed, how to keep going, how to give, how to collaborate,” Taylor said. “So, the hope is for students to really understand, just the stories of the community, their own stories,” she said.
Taylor said throughout the next few months, they will be developing the curriculum while bringing in the college students. She said the next step after that will be to start engaging with the high school partners.
Leaders said students in Atlanta could start to see the curriculum next school year.
“We’re going to need to lean on all of APS, all of Fulton County Schools, and we want to identify students who are extremely strong or do well– as well as students who need help,” Abdul-Salaam said. “We’re going to go in and start off with a few schools here in APS and then we’re going to roll our programs out to the whole team eventually,” he added.
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ATLANTA – Drivers in Midtown Atlanta should prepare for traffic changes this week as a new roadwork project begins along 10th Street.
What we know:
The Atlanta Department of Watershed Management said part of 10th Street will close starting Wednesday for sewer repairs.
The construction will impact the eastbound lane between Charles Allen Drive and Monroe Drive.
Officials said the repair project is expected to continue for about four weeks.
Crews will work overnight on weekdays from 5 p.m. until 5 a.m. Construction activity will continue around the clock on weekends until the project is complete.
What you can do:
Motorists traveling through Midtown are encouraged to plan ahead and expect delays in the area during the closure.
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Three Biggest Questions Facing the Atlanta Hawks Following the NBA Draft Lottery Results
The 2026 NBA Draft has come and gone, and while the results did not go the way that the Atlanta Hawks had hoped, landing at No. 8 overall, but they are still getting a top-eight pick in a deep draft when they are coming off a season in which they won 46 games and made the playoffs. Atlanta had hoped that having the most favorable selection from the Pelicans and Bucks would turn into a top-four pick, but they are going to get a chance to add to their young core with a high-level talent.
Now that the NBA Draft Lottery is over, what are some questions facing the Hawks?
1. Who could they take with the pick?
We will get into other scenarios later, but for this exercise, let’s just assume that the Hawks are going to stick at No. 8 and make a selection.
While the top four picks are likely going to be (in some order) AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, Cameron Boozer, and Caleb Wilson, the rest of the draft does not seem to be as certain.
There is a popular sentiment that the quarter of guards consisting of Keaton Wagler, Darius Acuff, Kingston Flemings, and Mikel Brown Jr are going to be picks 5-8, but that is not as much of a certainity as the top four.
The Clippers are picking 5th, but they just made a big trade for Darius Garland. Brooklyn just took four guards in last year’s draft, and the Kings are always a wild card, though of these teams, they have the biggest need at guard and don’t seem likely to veer from that.
In the NBA, needs is usually ignored in the draft and the best player available is taken most of the time, but it will be interesting to see which players the Clippers, Nets, and Kings decide on.
If those teams do take three of those guards, the Hawks would have their choice of whoever is left over from that group or players such as Michigan center Aday Mara, Arizona guard Brayden Burries, or Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg.
2. Could the Hawks move up or down in the draft?
While I think as of right now that the most likely scenario is that the Hawks stay put at No. 8, they do have some interesting options to potentially move up or down depending on how things fall.
As I mentioned earlier, the Clippers just traded for Darius Garland and if the Hawks wanted to get ahead of the Kings and Nets to land the guard of their choice, they could try and put together an attractive package to try and make a trade with Los Angeles.
The Nets seem less likely to move down, but after taking four guards in last year’s draft, could they move down and try to target another position?
What about a trade down? If the Hawks had been at No. 7 or in the top four, I would say a trade down is unlikely, but at No. 8, there could be an opportunity there for Hawks general manager Onsi Saleh. Would Oklahoma City be interested in moving No. 12 and No. 17 for No. 8? That would give the Hawks three first round picks and if they like a player that could be in that range, that would be a possibility, though all of this is just hypothetical at the moment.
3. Do the Hawks attempt to move the No. 8 pick for an established star?
Saleh has been adamnat that the team is not one player away and that the Hawks wanted to add through the draft, but even in a draft as deep as this one, the odds of getting a star player at No. 8 are long.
It is tough to really gauge the trade market for this offseason right now, but the No. 8 pick is an attractive asset. Could the Hawks try to trade for Celtics star Jaylen Brown? Again, it is tough to know who else could be available this summer and I would bet against the Hawks moving this pick for a veteran player, but never say never in the NBA.
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On a sad day overall for Braves Country, due to the passing of the legendary Bobby Cox, Spencer Strider gave Atlanta fans something to be happy and hopeful about with a stellar outing, shutting down the Dodgers potent offense for 6.0 innings with 8 strikeouts and 15 whiffs. He looked as good as he has in a long time. His fastball averaged 96.4 MPH, with 17 inches of induced vertical break and he had four pitches working nicely together. Even if Strider doesn’t quite return to his Jacob deGrom levels of dominance, having him as a true #1 or #2 quality starter would make a huge difference for this Braves team to pair with Chris Sale. Bryce Elder has been great this season, but shouldn’t be the second best starter in the rotation of a World Series contender. If Strider can keep something like Saturday night’s version of himself moving forward, that’s a huge development for him and this team.
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