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School Counselors
Click here to find out information about School Counselors and the school counseling program in Georgia. Counselors can provide students with a variety of information and support. This covers everything from helping students select classes and identify possible careers to obtaining personal and psychological counseling.
If you are a parent, and think your child would benefit from the services of a school counselor, please contact your local school. If you believe that your child is not getting the type of counseling they need, please contact your local school district central office.
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Student Support Teams
Student Support Teams (SST) exist in every Georgia school and function as problem-solving groups. In this capacity, the help students achieve success by removing or finding ways around roadblocks to that success.
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| Curriculum |
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Curriculum and Instruction
Click on this link to find out more information about the courses offered as part of the GaDOE’s different programs of instruction. This includes information about courses, textbooks, and lesson plans.
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Courses and Books
This section provides detailed information about courses offered by Georgia schools and the textbooks used to teach them.
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| Behavior and Discipline |
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TAADRA
This link provides information about the Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act, and the GaDOE’s compliance with it.
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Behavior Support and Student Discipline
The Behavior Support program helps students, parents, and teachers address behavioral problems that disrupt the student’s learning or degrade the general classroom learning environment. It helps them locate support services available through the school, school district, and public and private community organizations. It also helps parents and school authorities address student discipline based on the appropriate discipline for the severity of the behavior.
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School Social Work and Visiting Teacher Services
This link takes you to a page that promotes a program designed to help students work on nonacademic issues that effect their academic performance. Education professionals, parents, and community leaders are coming to the realization that these nonacademic issues not only effect student’s academic work, but can undermine their entire outlook on life and jeopardize their future as adults who contribute positively to society.
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| Testing and Performance |
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Report Card
In this section, you will find information about the annual Report Card for the state and local school districts. These report cards are the State’s yearly report to the people of Georgia summarizing a variety of educational accomplishments during the previous year and outlining the directions and goals for education in the coming year.
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AYP
The Annual Yearly Progress report provides detailed information not only for the state, but also for each school and school district within the state showing whether they met the requirements for the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
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| Infrastructure |
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Transportation
This link provides you with information about student transportation and efforts by the GaDOE to ensure that all students have appropriate transportation to get to and from school.
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Facilities Services
The Facilities Services Unit assists local school systems in developing long-range capital improvement plans, acquiring the funds needed to implement their plans, and reviewing their architect's plans to construct adequate and safe school facilities.
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School Codes
Click here to read an explanation of school codes and how they are used. It also provides access to the GaDOE Facilities database so you can look up school codes and information about any public school in the state.
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| Other Educational Options |
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State Schools
This section provides information about state schools, including Atlanta Area School for the Deaf, Georgia Academy for the Blind, Georgia School for the Deaf, and Georgia PINES (Parent Infant Network for Educational Services).
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Charter Schools
This link provides information about the state’s charter school program. This includes a list of charter schools, their charter requests, their demographics, and other pertinent information about each.
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Georgia Learn and Serve
This link connects you with the Georgia Service Learning site. Service learning is a method for teaching and learning that engages every learner in hands-on academic projects within the community. This helps students learn to apply their academic learning to real-world situations and strengthens communities by providing opportunities for interaction between students and the world of their immediate communities.
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| Recognition |
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Teacher of the Year Program
Click here for more information about the Georgia Teacher of the Year program. This is the chief teacher recognition program in the state. It spotlights the teaching profession and recognizes outstanding public school teachers at the local and state levels.
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Schools of Excellence
The Georgia Schools of Excellence program, which can be accessed through this link, is the way the state recognizes outstanding excellence in education by schools in the state. These schools are chosen each year by the state board of education.
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Milken Educator Awards
The Milken Educator Awards are granted each year by the Milken Family Foundation. These awards were founded in the 1980s by education pioneer Lowell Milken as a way to honor outstanding educators. These awards, which exist at the state and national levels, provides both public recognition and financial rewards to chosen educators. These awards are granted both on the state and national levels.
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