Bloodshot, bleary eyes.
Screaming children in the background.
Faulty internet and bandwidth overloads.
Mountains of homework. Mountains of work to grade.
Patience levels tested to the verge...
To many students, art classes play a unique role in their school schedule. It gives them a break from the lecture-based classroom and encourages them to display individuality through their own work. When...
On June 4, History teacher Nate Martell was enjoying an end-of the-year department lunch when he received a text saying that his girlfriend was in labor. Martell quickly drove his motorcycle to the hospital...
It was the last final of first semester when Erin Levin got the call that the baby was coming five weeks early. She, her husband and her mother flew out to Idaho to meet Elizabeth Rose Levin, delivered...
On Feb. 20, Nhat Nguyen and his wife welcomed their son, Theodore Nguyen. At home, he is called “Theo” or “Ti-heo,” a nickname that traces back to Nguyen and his wife’s Vietnamese roots.
“I...
Breast-cancer survivor, future best-selling novelist and high-school English teacher. Jane Gilmore, long-term substitute for English teacher Erin Levin, has had an eventful life, but the one thing that...
“When my baby first smiled at me, I melted like Olaf from Frozen,” said Daniella Howard, new mother and Drama and English teacher.
Howard has been on maternity leave since the beginning of...
School mornings can be difficult. Turning off the alarm without pressing snooze. Summoning the willpower to crawl out of the cozy, warm bed. For some, like AP Statistics and Algebra 2 Trig teacher...
Southbound on Highway 85 is the direction to go on a given weekday morning commute to work. This route is better than northbound, where the traffic often mirrors a situation similar to a parking lot. Compared...
To most teachers, an everyday commute is a source of stress, with traffic and unexpected delays all a possibility for the day. However, some teachers have found ways to bypass these problems.
For history...
Regularly commuting to school can be tedious, difficult and demanding. With traffic, the threat of tardies and unexpected delays, most students find getting to school a challenge. However, there are those...
Every morning, Japanese teacher Jeremy Kitchen, known as Kitchen-sensei by his students, prepares for a busy day as he enters his classroom. As the only Japanese teacher on campus, he is tasked with teaching...
