If students are to succeed, it is critical that they receive support at all levels of the educational process. The following information helps not only to support students, but also to support the parents, teachers, and other educational professionals who provide much of a student’s support network:

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.

Courses and Books
This section provides detailed information about courses offered by Georgia schools and the textbooks used to teach them.

Curriculum and Instruction
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.

Family Connection Partnership
Family Connection Partnership website is up-to-date at http://www.gafcp.org/.

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.

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.

School Counselors
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.

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.

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.

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.

TAADRA
This link provides information about the Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act, and the GaDOE’s compliance with it.

Teacher Recognition
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.