International Community School to Host Documentary Screening

The Medlock Park charter school is the subject of "A Place in the World," a documentary.

Medlock Park's International Community School will host a screening next weekend of A Place in the World, a documentary that chronicles the school and its diverse study body. The screening will be held in the school cafeteria Saturday, April 27, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., according to the Medlock Area Neighborhood Association. See the MANA post for more details. Patch told you about the documentary – including its trailer – last April. The movie's website says the film "follows three families with ties to the school, a first-year teacher, and the new principal of the school over the course of two years, as they adapt to, and learn from, this diverse and complex social environment. The film asks the question of whether we can learn to live …

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International Community School Launches Student Voting Rally

The school's fourth graders held the voting rally Oct. 9 at the Medlock charter school.

The International Community School students held a rally outside their school to encourage unregistered citizens to register to vote on the very last day of voter registration on Oct. 09. Fourth grade students at the Medlock school are taking the right of citizens to vote freely in elections very seriously. In fact, two days after the rally, they turned advocacy into action by conducting a special school election. Three questions were on the ballot, all of great interest to the student body: When a member of the school's staff stopped by to see what was happening, fourth grade poll worker Joshua Dawkins was quick to explain that the "real" election will be taking place in November. This story was provided by the International Community …

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Next Emory Lavista Parent Council Meeting to Tackle Charter Schools

The Wednesday, Oct. 17 meeting will be held at the International Community School in Medlock.

The Emory Lavista Parent Council will tackle the subject of charter schools next week when it brings its traveling group to Medlock's new charter school, the International Community School. The session, titled "The Georgia Charter School Ammendment: The Devil is in the Details," will include state Rep. Scott Holcomb giving an overview of why the state ammendment is up for a vote Nov. 4. It will also include Mark Peevy, former executive director of the Georgia Charter School Commission and Margaret Ciccarelli, legislative services manager and an attorney with the Professional Association of Georgia Educators. The meeting begins at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at the school, 2418 Wood Trail Lane, Decatur.

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Tom Doolittle

10:00 am on Tuesday, October 23, 2012

From Dunwoody Crier--blogger "Alpharetta Mom" http://www.thecrier.net/our_columnists/article_5bd46dc2-121d-11e2-a5cb-001a4bcf887a.html "A couple of concerns - we currently have a law in Georgia which affords an appeals process to petitioners who have been denied a charter by a local board. Why isn't this adequate? The enabling legislation, HB 797, allows charter petitioners the option to declare …   more ›

Bank Donates School Supplies to International Community School

The Medlock charter school was one of 24 schools in five states to receive supplies from City National Bank.

City National Bank recently donated a generous amount of school supplies to the International Community School in Medlock. Taking part in this donation were (l-r) fifth grade student Preslie Ladd, science and technology teacher Sudha Awasthi, and City National colleagues Randie Brooks, account manager and Imane Bitar, customer service officer. The bank donated more than 36,000 school supplies to 24 schools and one community organization in five states.

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International Community School Moves Into Medlock

The K-5 charter school has moved into the Medlock Elementary School building on 10 acres.

The board of directors, staff, and families of the International Community School are extremely pleased to announce that the doors of its new Medlock campus are now open. With larger classrooms, a cafeteria, a gym and 10 acres, the single K-5 location is now home to 370 students and 85 staff members, all of whom are eager to strengthen the school's education programs and services. After 10 years spent leasing space from two local churches, and after a comprehensive multi-year search for a solution to the challenge of having their own school building, ICS finally found its home in the former Medlock Elementary School in Decatur, an unused DeKalb County School District building. Renovations and repairs to the property began in early July, …

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Jonathan Cribbs

3:48 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012

Good to see someone using that building. I know the community was concerned.   more ›

Medlock Charter School Readies for First Day Next Week

The International Community School has signed a 10-year lease with the DeKalb County School System to operate inside the old Medlock Elementary School building.

Video Preview: A Film About The International Community School

"A Place In The World" is a feature-length documentary that has been in production for several years about the school that will move into Medlock Elementary School in the fall.

Many newspaper and magazine articles and television news spots have been devoted to the International Community School in Avondale Estates, a virtual United Nations of elementary education. Refugee children from dozens of nations, plus local children, attend the school. Now ICS, which is moving into the now-defunct Medlock Elementary School in the fall, is going to be portrayed in a feature-length documentary, A Place in the World. Here is a preview of the movie. The movie's website says the film "follows three families with ties to the school, a first-year teacher, and the new principal of the school over the course of two years, as they adapt to, and learn from, this diverse and complex social environment. The film asks the question of …

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