Across our schools, we celebrate student achievement with the opportunity for students to present their project-based learning studies to their peers and community. Continue Reading →

Across our schools, we celebrate student achievement with the opportunity for students to present their project-based learning studies to their peers and community. Continue Reading →
Atlanta’s partnership with Purpose Built Schools broke new ground for both APS and Georgia. Jovan Miles, principal of Thomasville Heights Elementary School, shared the benefits of the partnership school model in a guest column on the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s education blog, Get Schooled. Continue Reading →
“AVLF and Purpose Built Schools helped me a lot,” says Ms. Pearson. “I really do appreciate how strangers went out of their way to help a single mother like me. Their hearts are genuine and pure.” Continue Reading →
From Carver to Price, Slater to Thomasville Heights, our team of educators have a passion for turning around schools, impacting families and our community, and deliberately changing the trajectory of students. But with this work comes challenges. Life inside a turnaround school is incredibly meaningful, but there are daily obstacles that each of our teachers… Continue Reading →
A promising new program for low-income students and their families at Atlanta’s Thomasville Heights elementary school has cut the student turnover rate by nearly half. Continue Reading →