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    Posse Foundation Flyer
    Mercer University Campus Tour Permission Form
     
    For 11th graders only- the Posse Scholar program will be here on Tuesday March 14 during the lunch periods in the CCC room A230. They will be sharing the history of the scholarship, it's colleges to where they provide tuition scholarships, and the application process. 
    To sign up this presentation, please do so via either the link or QR code: 2023 Posse Scholar Presentation
     
     
    To learn a bit more about Posse, either review the first attached PDF document to this email or visit here: Posse Atlanta
     
     
    2. Next, we are having a chartered bus field trip to Mercer University in Macon, GA on Friday March 24. This trip is specifically targeted for those who've applied and been accepted to Mercer University, or for those students who are currently enrolled in our engineering programs with Ms. Schofield or Ms. Nunnink, as Mercer has very strong STEM concentrations (particularly all types of engineering - biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, mechanical), and we simply want to ensure that our STEM students are exposed to a variety of post-secondary options within our state for this field of study. 
     
    To learn more about Mercer's engineering school, visit: 2023 Mercer University
     
    To join this field trip, you must submit the permission form to the counselors no later than Friday March 17. Please see the second attached PDF document to this email for the official permission form. This field trip is a first come-first serve situation, where we can only take up to 30 students.
     
     
    Achieve Atlanta Scholarship
    SMSEA Application and FAQs
    Mercer University Field Trip Permission Form
     
    1. For those who joined us on Wednesday March 1 for our bi-annual financial aid presentation - Thank You. 
    To access the presentation provided by the GSFC (GA Student Finance Commission), please click here: 2023 Financial Aid 101
     
    To access our scholarship drive where hundreds of scholarships are housed, please click here: 2023 Scholarships
    Then to review the AA (Achieve Atlanta) scholarship, please open the first attached PDF document to this email. 
    For our current 11th graders - Ms. Collier and Ms. Ratchev, our college advisers are here at Midtown to assist you with navigating how to apply for college and scholarships. These two young ladies are located in the CCC room A230. 
     
    2. For those interested in getting ahead in their credits, particularly in math or science, the SMSEA program has released its application for the summer 2023 session. SMSEA is the Science Math Summer Enrichment Academy. The location will be at North Atlanta HS, and the deadline to submit your application is Friday April 7. To submit your application do so here: 2023 SMSEA Application
    You should review the 2nd attached PDF to this email for more details. 
     
    3. Thirdly, for those interested in enrolling in our district's virtual school full-time (not part-time) for the 2023-24SY, the AVA (Atlanta Virtual Academy) is taking your applications until Friday March 10. To apply, you must submit your app here: 2023-24 AVA Full-time Application
    Here are some points to consider about the full-time AVA program ~
    • AVA is a program, not a school. Therefore, students must be enrolled at their zone school to receive AVA enrollment. 
    • AVA has two components - full-time and part-time. This application is for their full-time program, where you will be attending all of your classes virtually, not at Midtown HS. 
    • With AVA's full-time program, families are expected to monitor student progress, productivity and attendance.
    • AVA full-time students can participate in extracurricular activities at their home schools.
    • AVA students take all national (PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP) and state (EOG, EOC) exams at their home schools.
    • Accepting a seat offer into AVA is a semester-long commitment. Therefore, once the parent accepts the seat offer for Fall Semester 2023, they may not return to their zone school until the end of the semester - January 2024.
    • No late applications will be accepted after the application window closes on Friday March 10.
    4. Next, we are having a chartered bus field trip to Mercer University in Macon, GA on Friday March 24. This trip is specifically targeted for those who've applied and been accepted to Mercer University, or for those students who are currently enrolled in our engineering programs with Ms. Schofield or Ms. Nunnick, as Mercer has very strong STEM concentrations (all types of engineering - biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, mechanical), and we simply want to ensure that our STEM students are exposed to a variety of post-secondary options within our state for this particular field of study. To learn more about Mercer's engineering school, visit: 2023 Mercer University
     
    To join this field trip, you must submit the permission form to the counselors no later than Friday March 17. See the third attached PDF form to this email for the form. This field trip is a first-come-first serve situation, where we can only take up to 30 students. 
     
    5. Finally, for juniors only - the Posse Scholar program will be here on Tuesday March 14 during the lunch periods in the CCC room A230. They will be sharing with current 11th graders the history of the scholarship, it's colleges to where they provided tuition scholarships, and the application process. 
    To sign up this presentation, please do so via here: 2023 Posse Scholar Presentation
     
    To learn a bit more about Posse, visit here: Posse Atlanta
     
    Achieve Atlanta Scholarship Flyer
    2023 SMSEA Application and FAQs
    Mercer University Field Trip Permission Form
     
    1. For those who joined us on Wednesday March 1 for our bi-annual financial aid presentation - Thank You. 
    To access the presentation provided by the GSFC (GA Student Finance Commission), please click here: 2023 Financial Aid 101
     
    To access our scholarship drive where hundreds of scholarships are housed, please click here: 2023 Scholarships
    Then to review the AA (Achieve Atlanta) scholarship, please open the first attached PDF document to this email. 
    For our current 11th graders - Ms. Collier and Ms. Ratchev, our college advisers are here at Midtown to assist you with navigating how to apply for college and scholarships. These two young ladies are located in the CCC room A230. 
     
    2. For those interested in getting ahead in their credits, particularly in math or science, the SMSEA program has released its application for the summer 2023 session. SMSEA is the Science Math Summer Enrichment Academy. The location will be at North Atlanta HS, and the deadline to submit your application is Friday April 7. To submit your application do so here: 2023 SMSEA Application
    You should review the 2nd attached PDF to this email for more details. 
     
    3. Next, for those interested in enrolling our district's virtual school full-time (not part-time) for the 2023-24SY, the AVA (Atlanta Virtual Academy) is taking your applications until Friday March 10. To apply, you must submit your app here: 2023-24 AVA Full-time Application
    Here are some points to consider about the full-time AVA program ~
    • AVA is a program, not a school. Therefore, students must be enrolled at their zone school to receive AVA enrollment. 
    • AVA has two components - full-time and part-time. This application is for their full-time program, where you will be attending all of your classes virtually, not at Midtown HS. 
    • With AVA's full-time program, families are expected to monitor student progress, productivity and attendance.
    • AVA full-time students can participate in extracurricular activities at their home schools.
    • AVA students take all national (PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP) and state (EOG, EOC) exams at their home schools.
    • Accepting a seat offer into AVA is a semester-long commitment. Therefore, once the parent accepts the seat offer for Fall Semester 2023, they may not return to their zone school until the end of the semester - January 2024.
    • No late applications will be accepted after the application window closes on Friday March 10.
    4. Lastly, we are having a chartered bus field trip to Mercer University in Macon, GA on Friday March 24. This trip is specifically targeted for those who've applied and been accepted to Mercer University, or for those students who are currently enrolled in our engineering programs with Ms. Schofield or Ms. Nunnick, as Mercer has very strong STEM concentrations (all types of engineering - biomedical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, mechanical), and we simply want to ensure that our STEM students are exposed to a variety of post-secondary options within our state for this particular field of study. To learn more about Mercer's engineering school, visit: 2023 Mercer University
     
    To join this field trip, you must submit the permission form to the counselors no later than Friday March 17. See the third attached PDF form to this email for the form. This field trip is a first-come-first serve situation, where we can only take up to 30 students. 
     
     
    2023 Achieve Atlanta Scholarship
     
    Thank you for attending our bi-annual financial aid presentation on Wednesday March 1, 2023. 
     
    To access the presentation provided by the GSFC (GA Student Finance Commission), please click here: 2023 Financial Aid 101
    To access our scholarship drive where hundreds of scholarships are housed, please click here: 2023 Scholarships
     
    Then to review the AA (Achieve Atlanta) scholarship, please open the attached PDF document.
     
     
     
    1. Please join us on Thursday Feb 16 at 6pm for the Alumni Panel discussion. This is where former students of Midtown/Grady return to share some of their experiences as they migrated from high school to their current college. Very insightful. This event will be over zoom - see below for login information, or preview the attached flyer . 
     
    2. The ASVAB will be administered on Friday Feb 17 at 8:30am in the JROTC department which is located in the F-bldg hallway (football stadium). For a little information on what the ASVAB is and access to study guide materials, please go to: 2023 ASVAB Info & Study Guide
    Walk-ins the day of the test will not be allowed, so to sign up for the exam, please register here: 2023 ASVAB Spring Semester's Registration
     
     
    Hello Midtown Community, 
     
    Dual Enrollment Information Session Flyer
     
    In an effort to avoid crowding everyone's email with 2023-24 DE (dual enrollment) application information, we are sending this particular email out to allow you or any Midtown student seeking to receive DE information for the 2023-24SY to make their claim now by letting us know that they are interested. 
     
    And how do you let us know? If you are or your child is strongly considering submitting an application to one of our dual enrollment partnered colleges, please make one submission via the link identified as "2023-24 DE Potential Applicants" or scan the QR code below ~
    2023-24 DE Potential Applicants
     
     
    We thank you for submitting your interest as we will now only communicate 2023-24 DE application info with those who submitted their interest via the google form or QR code above. Make sense? 
     
    For a snippet of what exactly is DE(dual enrollment), please click here: 2023-24 Basic Description of the DE program
     
     
    On Wednesday Feb 15 at 6pm here in Midtown's media center, yes, we are most certainly facilitating our DE info session where you will be able to meet/interact with our DE partner colleges (see the attached flyer). 
     
     
    For Juniors:
     
    The Horatio Alger Scholarship program has $25,000 scholarships for current 11th graders to apply now. This is the nation's largest need-based scholarship programs. For more information visit: https://scholars.horatioalger.org/, or you may review the flyer embedded into this email below. 
     
     
    To submit your application, go to: The 2023 Horatio Alger Scholarship Application
    Deadline is Wednesday March 15, 2023.  
     
    horatio
     
     
    Atlanta Bar Association Summer Internship
    Dual Enrollment Information Session Flyer
    Financial Aid Flyer
    Hope and Zell Miller Information
     
    1. First please continue to go into this google drive as it contains a whole host of upcoming events. See link for access: 2023 Unique Academic, Community Service, Summer Programs & Upcoming Events
     
     
    2. For current 11th graders, the Atlanta Bar Association is once again recruiting high schoolers to join their organization as a summer intern. This is a paid position, where you'd actually be employed/working at the bar association's office. Apps are available on Friday February 10. See the first attached document to this email for details. 
    To apply and seek more information, visit: 2023 Atlanta Bar Association Application & Information
     
    3. Please plan to attend these two events ~
    • The dual enrollment meeting is on Wednesday February 15 at 6pm (see the second flyer attached to this email).
    • The financial aid information session is on Wednesday March 1 at 6pm (see the third flyer attached to this email). 
     
    4. Lastly, many of you are asking if it's mandatory to take Physics. The short answer is yes - that's of course if you're seeking to be in a good position for eligibility with the HOPE/Zell Miller scholarships. There's a minimum number of what the GSFC (Georgia Student Finance Commission) agency considers HOPE rigorous courses, that every high schooler must take in order to be at the very least considered for these two lucrative state merit-based scholarships. 
    To learn more about HOPE/Zell Miller, you may review the fourth attached flyer to this email, or please click one or all of these links ~ 
     
     
     
     
    For 10th and 11th Graders:
     
     
    There is an event happening here on Midtown's campus in the cafeteria during your mid-winter break on Tuesday Feb 21 and Wednesday Feb 22 from 10am-2pm. The first 150 students to sign up may participate and earn 12 service hours. Please hurry and review the 1st flyer attached to this email for details and for the registration's QR code. 
    Next, to learn of other community service events that may need your help, please visit this Google drive: 2023 Community Service 
     
     
    Next, please be sure to always check out the flyers for upcoming events. Go to this drive - 2023 Unique Academic, Community Service, Summer Programs & Upcoming Events.
    Three upcoming events that may be of upmost importance are ~
    • The dual enrollment meeting is on Wednesday February 15 at 6pm (the flyer is attached to this email).
    • The financial aid information session is on Wednesday March 1 at 6pm (this flyer is attached to this email too). 
    • Our continual Saturday School program here at Midtown. The next session is Saturday Jan 28.
    Lastly, here is a wonderful program by the QuestBridge program. See the 4th/last attached flyer or you can definitely always refer back to the drive: 2023 Unique Academic, Community Service, Summer Programs & Upcoming Events. This program is for current Juniors c/o 2024, please - please - please, if you discover that your family meets the QuestBridge financial eligibility, and you are deeply interested in attending one of their partnered schools - for example the type of schools that are partnered are  Emory, Univ of Chicago, Yale, Boston College, Duke, etc., then you should definitely apply!!
     
     
    For 10th and 11th Graders:
     
    Many of you asked about details regarding upcoming events. Please again, click on the red colored link immediately below, where you'll find flyers that contain all the details about a whole host of upcoming events ranging from (but not limited to) - the upcoming dual enrollment info session, financial aid session, community service info session, the NACAC college fair, our Saturday School dates, etc..
     
    Click this link: 2023 Unique Academic, Community Service, Summer Programs & Upcoming Events
     
    Next, many of you are asking if it is mandatory to take Physics. The short answer is yes if you're seeking to be in a good position for the HOPE/Zell Miller scholarships eligibility. There's a minimum number of what the GA Student Finance Commission agency considers HOPE rigorous courses, that everyone in high school must take in order to be considered for these two lucrative state merit-based scholarships. To learn more about it, please click one or both of these links: 
    2023-23 Basic Understanding of the HOPE/Zell Miller Scholarships (watch the video located at the bottom of the webpage)
    2023-24 Understanding the High School HOPE GPA
     
    Lastly, please see below for a wonderful academic summer program at the University of West Georgia. 
     
     
     
     
     
    1. Every official holiday has a purpose. Do you know the purpose of the MLK holiday? It is actually that - to have purpose. Purpose through volunteering and serving the community. Many of you are in need of completing your volunteer service hours requirement. Here's a host of volunteer opportunities through the well-known and reputable nonprofit - Hands on Atlanta. Please go to their site here and sign up for an event or events to which you qualify and are interested in helping. See link: 2023 Hands on Atlanta Community Service Events
     
    2. Seniors, there are several events occurring in the early part of the spring 2023 semester. Let's take a look at what's happening by going to this link: 2023 Unique Academic, Community Service, Summer Programs & Upcoming Events
    Located in this drive, you'll find flyers for the following ~
    • The Dual Enrollment Info session - Wednesday February 15 at 6pm for fall 2023 applicants
    • The Financial Aid Presentation - Wednesday March 1 at 6pm
    • Understanding Community Service presentation - via zoom on Thursday January 19 at either 1pm or 7pm
    • The Stanford University/Rustic Pathways Climate Leaders Fellowship - deadline to apply is Sunday February 5
    • Emory University's NextGen summer program - App deadline is February 15. 
    • The NACAC College Fair at the GA International Convention Center - Wednesday March 22 at 6-8pm. 
    • Midtown HS Saturday School - Jan 28, Feb 11, March 4, March 25, April 22, and May 13
    • Morehouse/Spelman College SMASH summer program - (this is for current 9th graders)
    • The Student Mental Health Advisory Board - January 17 meeting
    • UGA's VetCAMP - App deadline January 23.
    3. For the Morehouse/Spelman SMASH program, there will be an info session held on Thursday January 26 at 6pm via zoom. 
    Here's the zoom login info ~
    https://kaporcenter.zoom.us/j/95270667864?pwd=YjZtTEZoWmNKVEdEUnpDZFVJa0dNZz09Meeting ID: 952 7066 7864Passcode: 881182

     

    SMASH Academy Recruitment

    MyVoluntier How to Guide for Students

     

    1. Final Exams begin next week and here's the exam schedule ~

     

    • Tuesday Dec 13 will be exams for periods 1A and 2A
    • Wednesday Dec 14 will be exams for periods 1B and 2B
    • Thursday Dec 15 will be exams for periods 3A and 4A
    • Friday Dec 16 will be exams for periods 3B and 4B

     

    2. An academic/college prep program for 9th graders to consider is the SMASH summer program at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges July 8-28, 2023. It is a summer residential program where you will be on the campuses of Morehouse (males) or Spelman (females) solely focusing on STEM (science technology engineering math). See the QR code on the first attached flyer for more details, or see video: 2023 SMASH Summer STEM Program Video 
    Or for a quicker process, here is the link directly to the application: https://www.smash.org/apply 
     
    Please go ahead and submit your application asap ~ Deadline is Wednesday March 1, 2023
     
     
    3. Have you submitted your community service to your counselor yet? If not, then you MUST and will now need to store and manage your hours through the new platform called MyVoluntier. The platform can be accessed through your MyBackPack account. Your accounts have already been set up as you'll use your APS email as your username and your lunch number as your password. 
    The 2nd attached document is a flyer with instructions on how to upload your hours and sign up for events. Your community service hours are due to your counselor no later than the Friday immediately before spring break during your senior year. But you are certainly more than welcome to submit your hours prior to that date. 
     
     
    AVA HS Spring Course Offerings
    ASVAB Fall Exam Study Guide
     
    The AVA (Atlanta Virtual Academy) part-time program registration for spring 2023 will begin Monday December 5. 
    For those interested in taking one and/or possibly even two classes virtually through the AVA platform during the spring 2023 semester, then you may want to proceed with this registration process. 
     
    Why would or should you take a virtual course through AVA?
    • Reason #1 - You failed a course or courses from the previous semester or previous year, and you did not enroll in any credit recovery program during the summer or last school year. And now you need to recover the credit. - This is called CR or Credit Recovery. 
    • Reason #2 - You're on-track for graduation and you are simply seeking to get ahead in your credits. You're also interested in taking a course or courses that you'd ordinarily be scheduled to take in the future. Doing so will allow you to get ahead in your credits and possibly graduate early. - This is called IC or Initial Credit. 
    To apply, please go to this link: The AVA Part-Time Course Registration for Spring 2023  
     
    Once you are on the website, here are your steps - please READ THESE BULLETS CAREFULLY
    • The website's 1st page - you'll be requested to supply standard information such as your email, your school network ID, along with your lunch number. Please contact your counselor if you don't know this information. 
       
    • The website's 2nd page - this is where you'll select your course(s). You may select up to two courses. However, if you only need one course the website will not allow you to move forward, so no worries, please simply select the same course twice. Please understand that this is an application for part-time AVA (not their full-time program), and it allows you to enroll in two types of courses ~ CR or IC for either the 1st or 2nd semester's portion of the course. There's an attached document to this email that lists all of AVA's part-time courses. Then, please review below here for an explanation on how to appropriately register for the right course.
      • CR - is for credit recovery which means you previously failed a course, and you now need to redo or recover the credit so that you can be eligible for graduation
      • IC - is for initial credit which means this is a new course that you've never taken and you're now seeking to earn credit(s) so that you can either get ahead to potentially graduate early or to possibly free up your next year's schedule so that you're able to take on other programs like dual enrollment, WBL (work based learning), or even early release. 
      • Then for selecting the correct semester's portion, here's an explanation --
        • Where you see an "A" next to the course's name that means the 1st semester.
        • Where you see a "B" next to the course's name that means the 2nd semester. 
      •  
    • The website's 3rd page - this is where you must select your assigned counselor. See here for who your counselor is ~
      • ​10-12th graders with last names A-F, your new counselor is Rucker, Katrina and her email is Katrina.rucker@atlanta.k12.ga.us
      • 10-12th graders with last names G-M, your counselor is Young, Lamar and his email is Ljyoung@atlanta.k12.ga.us 
      • 10-12th graders with last names N-Z, your counselor is Falcone, Chelsea and her email is Chelsea.falcone@atlanta.k12.ga.us 
      • All 9th graders, your counselor is Blevins-Pellechia, Tina and her email is Tblevins2@atlanta.k12.ga.us
    Again, please submit your application through this link: The AVA Part-Time Course Registration for Spring 2023 
    See flyer here for deadline dates. 
     
     
    Lastly, please let your counselor know if you'd like to take the ASVAB which is scheduled for Friday December 9. This is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery assessment for those interested in exploring careers in the military, National Guard, or for those who simply want to know which fields they're good in. See the 2nd attached flyer to download a study guide and again you absolultely must let your counselor know that you're interested in taking the assessment so that we can add your name to the testing list as we cannot accept walk-ins. 
     
     
    Hello 10th and 11th Graders
     
    1. Are you looking to earn more community service hours? The City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of International and Immigrant Affairs has an initiative called Welcoming Atlanta where volunteers are needed for food distribution. In fact, there's a special Thanksgiving distribution event on Tuesday November 22 at 1pm located at 3200 Lenox Rd NE Atlanta 30324. Then there's another event on the same day at 2:30pm located 2572 Lenox Rd NE Alanta 30324. 
     
    Here are other locations for food distribution in our Midtown area ~
    1676 Briarcliff Rd NE
    894 Briarcliff Terr Rd NE
    2020 Lenox Rd NW
     
    To sign up for these exciting volunteer opportunities, please go to our community service folder/drive and locate the flyer entitled "2022-23 Welcoming Atlanta Volunteer Recruitment in Immigrant Communities". There's a QR code on the flyer. You will also find other community service projects in the folder/drive such as United Way's Season of Giving events. 
    Here's the link to the Community Service folder/drive: 2022-23 Community Service Events
     
     
    Yes, it's official - the class of 2024 your total required community service hours have been reduced to 40 hours. 
     
     
    2. Lastly, if you're seeking to take all of your courses virtually for spring 2023 semester,  AVA (Atlanta Virtual School) is allowing students to apply for their full-time program. You may submit your application here: AVA's 2023 Spring Semester Full-Time Interest Application. Your application must be submitted by Friday December 9.  Please connect with your assigned counselor if you should have any questions as you submit your application. 
    For those who only want to take one or two virtual courses, AVA"s part-time application will be released at a later date- so watch your emails.
     
     
    Hello current 9th, 10th, & 11th graders~
     
     
    We have begun the process of preparing for the 2023-24 school year, particularly things related to auxiliary programs such as the ACCA. 
    What's the ACCA? It is the Atlanta College Career Academy. This is a place where APS students may enroll in courses that are associated with a variety of high-demand and high-tech fields. 
    • See the 1st attached flyer for a listing of the programs offered at the ACCA for next school year.
    • See the 2nd attached flyer for those who are currently in the 9th / 10th grade to obtain more concrete information about why you should enroll in programs like the ACCA. 
    We are during the first week of November hosting a full-scale presentation about the ACCA, its programs, admissions criteria, application process, etc. So, if you are interested in learning more about the ACCA and joining this presentation, please hurry and place your interest here: 
             or 
     
     
    For 10th and 11th Graders:
     
     
    Governor's Honors Program
    The nomination process for the 2022-23 Governor's Honors Program (GHP) will open on September 8th and will end on September 16th. GHP is a four-week residential program designed to provide intellectually gifted and artistically talented 10th and 11th-grade high school students challenging and enriching educational opportunities not usually available during the regular school year. This program will be held on the campus of Berry College from June 18-July 15, 2023.
     
    Students must be nominated by a teacher to be eligible to apply. For more information, please review the 1st document attached to this email which is the PowerPoint for this year's program and nominating process. If you should have additional questions regarding GHP, you may contact counselor Ms. Falcone at chelsea.falcone@atlanta.k12.ga.us.
    Next, as we embark on this year's national testing administrations, you should begin preparing yourself for two of the most common national exams - SAT and ACT. Below are some resources to assist in prepping for these exams. 
    • Also, please refer to the 2nd attached flyer in this email for a good tutorial resource -that's free/no cost. 
     
     
    Next, there is an important upcoming event - please save it to your calendar. 
    • On Wednesday September 28 at 6pm here at the school in-person - The Dual Enrollment Info Session. This is for anyone who's interested in participating in dual enrollment for the spring 2023 semester. There will be our dual enrollment partners available to discuss the dual enrollment opportunities at their institution. See the 3rd attached flyer for details. 
    Finally, be sure to regularly check out the following drive for community service opportunities, as information is consistently updated. Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15LL5UGsKHSTlW5dI2LVfV6-pwVh71jLE?usp=sharing

    Welcome back and to the 2022-23 school year.! As one of many email messages from the guidance department, we'd like to inform you that the AVA (Atlanta Virtual Academy) part-time course application is underway. 
     
    For those interested taking one and/or possibly even two classes virtually through the AVA platform during the fall 2022 semester, then you may want to proceed with this registration process. 
     
    Why would or should you take a virtual course through AVA?
    • Reason #1 - You failed a course or courses from the previous semester or previous year, and you did not enroll in any credit recovery program during the summer or last school year. And now you need to recover the credit. - This is called CR or Credit Recovery. 
    • Reason #2 - You're on-track for graduation and you are simply seeking to get ahead in your credits. You're also interested in taking a course or courses that you'd ordinarily be scheduled to take in the future. Doing so will allow you to get ahead in your credits and possibly graduate early. - This is called IC or Initial Credit. 
    To apply, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/AVAPTHS  
     
    Once you are on the website, here are your steps - please READ THIS CAREFULLY
    • Website's 1st page, you'll be requested to supply standard information such as your email, your school network ID, along with your lunch number. Please contact your counselor if you don't know this information. 
    • Website's 2nd page, this is where you'll select your course(s). You may select up to two courses. Please understand that this an application for part-time AVA (not their full-time program), and it allows you to enroll in two types of courses - CR or IC for either the 1st or 2nd semester's portion of the course. There's an attached document to this email that list all of AVA's part-time courses.
    • Then, please review below here for an explanation on how to appropriately register for the right course.
      • Where you see an "A" next to the name of the course that means the 1st semester.
      • Where you see a "B" next to the name of the course that means the 2nd semester. 
      • CR - is for credit recovery which means you previously failed a course, and you now need to redo or recover the credit so that you can be eligible for graduation
      • IC - is for initial credit which means this is a new course that you've never taken and you're now seeking to earn credit(s) so that you can either get ahead to potentially graduate early or to possibly free up your next year's schedule so that you're able to take on other programs like dual enrollment, WBL (work based learning), or even early release. 
      • Then for selecting the correct semester's portion, here's an explanation --
      • SPECIAL NOTE: If you only need one course, the website may not allow you to move on until you select a 2nd course, no worries just simply select the same course twice - that way it will allow you to move on in the application process. 
    • Website's 3rd page, this is where you must select your assigned counselor. See below for who your counselor is.
      • ​10-12th graders with last names A-F, your new counselor is Rucker, Katrina and her email is katrina.rucker@atlanta.k12.ga.us
      • 10-12th graders with last names G-M, your counselor is Young, Lamar and his email is Ljyoung@atlanta.k12.ga.us 
      • 10-12th graders with last names N-Z, your counselor is Falcone, Chelsea and her email is chelsea.falcone@atlanta.k12.ga.us 
      • All 9th graders, your counselor is Blevins-Pellechia, Tina and her email is Tblevins2@atlanta.k12.ga.us
    Again, please submit your application through this link: https://bit.ly/AVAPTHS
    Fall virtual courses begin on Monday August 1, so the deadline to apply is ideally Sunday July 31, but AVA is allowing you up to Sept 2.
     
    Lastly, for those who have IC (initial credit) courses, you will need to work on your course(s) beyond the school day i.e. evenings, weekends, holidays, etc. For those who need CR (credit recovery) courses, you may in fact be scheduled for virtual period during the school day in our credit recovery lab. Counselors will explain and make such adjustments to schedules. 
     
     
    The guidance department is updating its email contact database. We'd like for you to continue being included in our email updates which focuses on things such as, but are certainly not limited to - academic resources, SAT/ACT test prep information, community service opportunities, summer programs, employment opportunities, college admissions information, financial aid, HOPE/Zell Miller scholarship information, tutorial resources, general scholarships, mental health resources, and much more.
     
    To be included in the 2022-23 email contact database, please quickly make one submission via: https://forms.gle/NJAvV19yEivYGiMR7
     
    You'll also find this link on our school's website, so please share with other Midtown HS parents/students: https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/midtown