Bay Creek, Suwanee teachers win award for projects

Sherry Aglietti, a science teacher at Bay Creek Middle School, and Soo Son, who teaches third grade at Suwanee Elementary School, have been named 2017 Atlanta Families' Awards for Excellence in Education winners. They received $7,500 that includes funds for innovative classroom projects ($3,500), professional development ($1,500) and personal stipends ($2,500). In Aglietti's project submitted for the AFAEE award, called Cultivating Community, seventh-grade life science students will work through a series of lessons where they are introduced to cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems of plants. Son's project for the AFAEE award is a STEAM PBL Collaboratory to connect the classroom and the world. It will consist of collaboration spaces so students may discuss issues and brainstorm solutions. It will have more tablets for students to do the research, and 3D printers so they may build their ideas, test their hypotheses and deliver presentations.