Pam Santoro: Alpharetta, GA Real Estate Agent: Principal for a Day at Summit Hill Elementary School.

On Wednesday, November 20th, I had the pleasure of learning first hand about our great Fulton County Schools. I was the honorary Principal of the Day at Summit Hill Elementary School shadowing Principal Nancy Murphy for a day. I was so impressed with the students, staff and parent volunteers

At the start of the day, I was the guest speaker on the Husky's morning televised announcements. The media specialist, Michelle Howard, explained that all third, fourth, and fifth graders get a chance to produce the morning news from handling all the equipment to being news anchors.

Summit Hill Elementary School has 726 students on its beautiful Milton campus. The mission of Summit Hill Elementary is to work passionately and collaboratively to inspire every student's success in life and learning. Touring the school, I observed different grades with Thanksgiving hats, treats, wagons, pouches, and more. What's amazing is the wonderful way the teachers incorporate technology into teaching with students never missing a beat. Whether covering reading, math, social studies or science, students were inquisitive, knowledgeable, solution oriented and very tech savvy.

As a realtor and a mother of two Chattahoochee High school graduates, I have always known that we have great North Fulton schools, but this reaffirms my knowledge.

I attended a staff planning meeting, visited the media center, and ate lunch in the cafeteria. It was a fantastic experience. As a business person, I recommend getting involved in the schools. So much energy there. Not only can we give back to the community, but I believe we get more from the experience.

Here are a few of the pictures from the school plus a small slide show of my day http://youtu.be/6m1LbJ7DtLI :