Every night, as Chantal Boulanger cleans the classrooms at U-32, she finds returnable bottles in the trash cans and recycling bins. If you walk down the hallway around 4:00 pm, you’ll see these bottles lined up along the windowsills of…
Author: Katie Phillips
Decision Day: New Tradition, Mixed Reception
On June 1st, 2018, over half of the senior class flooded into the gym for their Decision Day assembly. They took their seats on cold metal chairs, and stared out over a sea of younger students, who applauded as the…
Student Council Elections: A New Approach
This year, the U-32 community experienced a walk out in support of gun control, a school-wide email chain discussing violence in school, and the decision to raise the Black Lives Matter flag. In the next few years, our school will…
Goal-Gradient Theory: A Tool For Thinking About Proficiencies
“Imagine handing a saxophone to somebody that had never played before, and handing them a middle-school level piece of music,” says David Powelson, sitting at his desk in the band room. “The resources are out there, they could sit down…
Student Council Elections: Make Them Work For You
Interviews and Photographs by Anne-Marie Mattagno On May 22nd, 2017, eight hundred students streamed through the doors of U-32. Kids slipped strips of paper into cardboard boxes, casting their votes for the next year’s Student Council. Until voting day,…