With classrooms across Cobb and the country going virtual, some parents and students may be concerned about how to stay safe in a digital learning environment. The Cobb Schools Instructional Technology team created a Student…
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Eighth grade CS/STEM students at Barber Middle School are excitedly awaiting the results of their entry into a unique nation-wide music re-mix competition, sponsored by Amazon and Georgia Tech. The students used their computer science and coding skills to creatively code and re-mix hit songs by the Grammy-Award winning singer, Ciara. According to their teacher Saundra Watts, the Barber students are…
In one classroom, kindergarten students may be creating a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation while students in another elementary class use Sway software for digital storytelling. Down the hall, a teacher may be reviewing data collected during a classroom assessment…
Smart boards, laptops, and tablets have transformed classrooms into digital learning environments. To help Cobb teachers and leaders leverage the technology to help students succeed, the Cobb County School District recently held the second annual Cobb InTech Conference…
NASA and the SETI Institute recently announced that the Cobb County School District is one of only 14 school districts in eight states to participate in the 2019 NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program.
Parents are able to register students who are between the ages of 5 and 17 on September 1. The Bus Route Finder is available to help parents locate the school where their children will attend based on a street address.
Several students from Cobb brought home high honors at the Piedmont Regional Technology Competition held at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Ga. Students from Sedalia Park Elementary, Tritt Elementary and Hightower Trail Middle School…
Students are deep into learning at Pitner Elementary’s HOTSpot Strategy Lab. HOTSpot stands for Higher Order Thinking Skills. Kindergarten through fifth grade students visit the HOTSpot on a regular basis to play critical thinking games,…
To help parents with School Choice transfers for the 2015-16 school year, a computer kiosk is set up in the lobby of the Cobb County School District offices. Above, Darryl York, Executive Director of Policy,…
Walton High School Junior Aditya Suri earned a $20,000 scholarship from Samsung by developing a mobile app for Android mobile phone users. Suri got the idea for the app after attending Samsung’s Mobile App Academy…