On the morning of March 8, more than 250 students from 11 Cobb County schools competed in the District Elementary Science Olympiad, sponsored by Cobb EMC. Fourteen teams from Murdock, Belmont Hills, Argyle, Sedalia Park,…
The School Social Workers Association of Georgia has selected CCSD school social worker Ida Hafford-Brown as the 2008 Georgia School Social Worker of the Year. This is the first time that a Cobb School Social…
On Friday, March 14, fifth grade math classes at Brumby Elementary School celebrated Pi, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle which is approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846. The teachers all wore…
Following an intensive two-month period of Saturday workshops and after school effort, six teams of Cobb students travelled to Athens on March 6 to compete in the F1 in Schools State Finals. The F1 in…
Austell Intermediate School featured a variety of community readers for its ‘Read Across America’ celebration. Cobb County District 4 Commissioner Annette Kesting (pictured above) joined in the festivities, as well as Austell Fire Chief Tim…
Members of Birney Elementary’s Boys’ Leadership Academy recently had a unique opportunity to visit with a prominent local business leader, Bob Dawson, president of Southern Linc. Fifth grade teacher Kyle Hibbler accompanied students on a…
Cobb was well represented at the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl at the University of Georgia on March 1. Still Elementary placed second in the state finals for elementary schools, while Smitha Middle School placed…
Jeff Inman, director of the District’s Prevention Intervention Center, in collaboration with the University of Rochester and University of South Florida, was recently published as a co-author in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,…
Kennesaw Mountain High School hosted the first Cobb County Male Youth Summit on Feb. 16. The conference brought together male mentor groups from schools across the District to help motivate Cobb’s young men to be…
Parents from across the Cobb County and Marietta school districts came together on Saturday, Feb. 9 to focus on the important role they play in their childrens’ education. The gathering of nearly 150 parents for…