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Atlanta SMART Academy

5th-8th Public Charter School in Southwest Atlanta

P.O. Box 42964 Atlanta, GA 30311
706-432-1773
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    Instagram post 2252481325717849112_8635772110 Whats Up Wednesday? This year is a leap year so we want you to LEAP into canvassing with ASA! Get it? Click the link in our bio to sign up to volunteer. Or visit our website and click Events. No experience necessary. See you there! #artseducation #charterschools #gacharters
    Instagram post 2252370508867583721_8635772110 Billionaire media executive and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey is best known for hosting her own internationally popular talk show from 1986 to 2011. From there she launched her own television network, OWN. Born in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, Winfrey moved to Baltimore in 1976, where she hosted People Are Talking. Afterward, she was recruited by a Chicago TV station to host her own morning show. Winfrey launched The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 as a nationally syndicated program that ran for 25 years, until 2011. With its placement on 120 channels and an audience of 10 million people, the show grossed $125 million by the end of its first year, of which Winfrey received $30 million. #artseducation #blackhistory #charterschool #atlantaeducation
    Instagram post 2251939797113546035_8635772110 🗣🗣Now enrolling 5th and 6th grades! Click the link in our bio. Tag an Atlanta parent. Is your child innovative or creative? Into science, math or the arts? Enroll today! #artseducation #atlantaeducation #charterschool #middleschool
    Instagram post 2251645724368427503_8635772110 Katherine Johnson was a mathematician, one of NASA's human "computers" and an unsung hero of the space agency's early days Johnson did calculations for the first moon landing, and later for the space shuttle program. President Barack Obama awarded her the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, at a 2015 White House ceremony. She died Monday at the age of 101. #blackhistory #science #math
    Instagram post 2251039251817027269_8635772110 RIP B. Smith Born Barbara Elaine Smith, she was a multi-faceted and multi-talented personality. In addition to building restaurants and a home decor collection, over the years, Smith was a fashion model, actress, TV host and bestselling cookbook author. In 1976 she became one of the first African American women to appear on the cover of “Mademoiselle” magazine. #blackhistory #artseducation
    Instagram post 2250920955131384478_8635772110 Daniel Hale Williams was one of the first physicians to perform open-heart surgery in the United States and founded a hospital with an interracial staff. Daniel Hale Williams III was born on January 18, 1856, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Like his father, he took up barbering, but ultimately decided he wanted to pursue his education. He worked as an apprentice with Dr. Henry Palmer, a highly accomplished surgeon, and then completed further training at Chicago Medical College. Due to the discrimination of the day, African American citizens were still barred from being admitted to hospitals and black doctors were refused staff positions. Firmly believing this needed to change, in May 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first hospital with a nursing and intern program that had a racially integrated staff. In 1894, Williams moved to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed the chief surgeon of the Freedmen’s Hospital, which provided care for formerly enslaved African Americans. The facility had fallen into neglect and had a high mortality rate. Williams worked diligently on revitalization, improving surgical procedures, increasing specialization, launching ambulance services and continuing to provide opportunities for black medical professionals, among other feats. In 1895, he co-founded the National Medical Association, a professional organization for black medical practitioners, as an alternative to the American Medical Association, which didn’t allow African-American membership. #blackhistory #artseducation #science #math #atlantaeducation #charterschool #solutionists
    Instagram post 2248864221473556803_8635772110 Huge shoutout to our founding school leader making history! Thank you to GCSA for the opportunity to join the Incubator. We are forever grateful. 💙 Follow them @gacharters or visit the website to read the full article. #artseducation #atlantaeducation #gacharters #charterschool #southwestatlanta
    Instagram post 2248746624463639036_8635772110 Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 memoir, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', and her numerous poetry and essay collections. Angelou spent about 5 years in silence after a traumatic childhood experience. During World War II, Angelou moved to San Francisco, California. There she won a scholarship to study dance and acting at the California Labor School. In the mid-1950s, Angelou's career as a performer began to take off. She landed a role in a touring production of Porgy and Bess, later appearing in the off-Broadway production Calypso Heat Wave (1957) and releasing her first album, Miss Calypso (1957). Angelou went on to earn a Tony Award nomination for her role in the play Look Away (1973) and an Emmy Award nomination for her work on the television miniseries Roots (1977), among other honors. #blackhistory #artseducation #charterschool #atlantaeducation
    Instagram post 2248130231260806846_8635772110 Thank YOU! Your generous support has helped us raise $9,150! Every dollar moves us closer to our goal of $20k to prepare to open in August 2020 for 192 founding 5th and 6th graders. Can you see the excitement on their faces? We do too! Donate today by visiting our website or clicking the link in our bio. Like, share, repost and tag a supporter! #ThankfulThursday #artseducation #charterschool #atlantaeducation #gacharters
    Instagram post 2248042059432776498_8635772110 This is why we’re SMART! Now Enrolling rising 5th and 6th graders for next school year. Sign up today! 💙 Link in bio #artseducation #charterschools #atlantaeducation #middleschool
    Instagram post 2247297073909317139_8635772110 Langston Hughes was an African American writer whose poems, columns, novels and plays made him a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. In 1951 Hughes published one of his most celebrated poems, "Harlem (What happens to a dream deferred?')," discussing how the American Dream falls short for African Americans: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? #artseducation #blackhistory #atlantaeducation #charterschools
    Instagram post 2245847509846743743_8635772110 In 1876, Edward Alexander Bouchet became the first African-American to earn a doctorate degree in the United States. Born in 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated valedictorian from Hopkins Grammar School in 1870. That same year, he began his studies at Yale University. He completed his bachelor's degree in 1874. Bouchet made history two years later, becoming the first African-American to earn a doctorate degree in the United States. After earning his doctorate in physics, Bouchet could not land a college professorship due to his race. He taught at the School for Colored Youth in Philadelphia for more than 25 years. He died in 1918. #blackhistory #artseducation #charterschool #atlantaeducation
    Instagram post 2244604388000028626_8635772110 Out spreading the word! Now enrolling 5th and 6th grades for August 2020. Want to join us canvassing? Need to enroll? Click the link in our bio! #artseducation #charterschool #atlantaeducation #middleschool
    Instagram post 2243661552936828522_8635772110 Now Enrolling Founding 5th and 6th graders! Join a challenging, engaging and restorative school community focused on high student growth. We're building innovative solutionists in SW Atlanta. 🗣️Tag a parent 🗣️ #artseducation #charterschool #gacharters #atlantaeducation
    Instagram post 2242936825574334909_8635772110 It's #ThankfulThursday and we're thanking YOU! We've raised 45% of our goal for our planning year to help bring a high quality arts school to SW Atlanta. You have time to make a tax-deductible gift. Click the link in our bio or visit our website. #artseducation #gacharters
    Instagram post 2242211714410201979_8635772110 Paul Leroy Robeson ( April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill. His mother was from a prominent Quaker family of mixed ancestry and his father was of Igbo origin, born into slavery but later escaped. Robeson was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism. Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was also a star athlete in his youth. In the United States he also became active in the Civil Rights Movement and other social justice campaigns. In 1915, Robeson won an academic scholarship to Rutgers College, where he was twice named a consensus All-American in football, and was the class valedictorian. Almost 80 years later, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He received his LL.B. from Columbia Law School while playing in the National Football League (NFL). Robeson worked briefly as a lawyer, but he renounced a career in law due to widespread racism. At Columbia, he sang and acted in off-campus productions. After graduating, he became a figure in the Harlem Renaissance with performances in The Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings. in 1945 he received the Spingarn medal from the NAACP. His efforts to end Apartheid in South Africa were posthumously rewarded in 1978 by the United Nations General Assembly. In the centenary of his birth, which was commemorated around the world, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. #artseducation #blackhistory #atlantaeducation
    Instagram post 2240761990233290518_8635772110 Meet Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003). Born in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York, Daly was an avid reader and was fascinated by Paul De Kruif’s popular book The Microbe Hunters. She was further inspired by her father’s love of science. She enrolled in Queens College in Flushing, New York, and graduated magna cum laude in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. The college offered her a fellowship to pursue graduate studies in chemistry at New York University while working part-time as a laboratory assistant at Queens College. In just one year she completed her master’s degree. Daly enrolled in the doctoral program at Columbia University and researched how compounds produced in the body affect and participate in digestion. She was awarded her doctoral degree in 1947, only three years after enrolling in the program, and was the first African American woman to obtain a PhD in chemistry in the United States. Overcoming the dual hurdles of racial and gender bias, she conducted important studies on cholesterol, sugars, and proteins. In addition to her research, she was committed to developing programs to increase the enrollment of minority students in medical school and graduate science programs. #STEM #blackhistory #atlantaeducation #womeninscience
    Instagram post 2239327195682951929_8635772110 Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an influential artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. His neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 In 2017, after a $57.3 million purchase of his art, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa bought the artist’s Untitled (1982) for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. #artseducation #blackhistory
    Instagram post 2238727244074118465_8635772110 Meet Charles “Honi” Coles and Charles “Cholly” Atkins. Check out this amazing performance! Charles “Honi” Coles was born in Philadelphia where he learned to tap dance on the streets. He made his New York City debut at the Lafayette Theatre in 1931. Performing at the Harlem Opera House and Apollo Theatre, he was reputed to have the fastest feet in show business. In 1940, as a soloist with Cab Calloway’s orchestra, Coles met Charles “Cholly” Atkins, a jazz tap dancer who would later choreograph for the best rhythm-and-blues singing groups of the 1960s. Atkins was an expert wing dancer, while Coles’s specialty was precision. They combined their talents after the War by forming the class act of Coles & Atkins. Charles “Cholly” Atkins was an American dancer who later became noted as the house choreographer for the various artists on the Motown label. He was born Charles Sylvan Atkinson in Pratt City, Alabama. In 1989, Cholly received a Tony Award for choreographing the Broadway show “Black and Blue”. #blackhistory #artseducation
    Instagram post 2238587543887954178_8635772110 🗣️Now Enrolling! 🗣️ Tag a Georgia parent. Do you have a creative child? or a child who loves science, math or the arts? Join our founding class of 5th and 6th graders in August 2020. For more info or to apply, click the link in bio or visit our website. #atlantaeducation #gacharters #artseducation #charterschools #STEM #science #math #arts
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