
March 20, 2025
Internet safety expert Katie Greer told John Jay Middle School’s sixth grade what she learned about their school after spending just three minutes online. It included first day of...

March 20, 2025
There’s a surprise in store for audiences after the curtain closes, at the end of Grease—it opens again! The extra serving of pop culture was Director David Fritsch’s idea. “I wan...

March 17, 2025
Up to the moment of the presentation, Principles of Engineering students were troubleshooting the lights on the Blue Dolphin Diner. “It should work, based on the code we created,”...

March 11, 2025
The curtain lifts slowly to reveal two dozen pairs of tap-dancing feet … and the times steps, buffalos and shuffle ball changes don’t stop, all evening! John Jay High School Theat...

March 10, 2025
March means many things … including St. Patrick’s Day! Increase Miller Elementary students enjoyed the sights and sounds of Celtic culture with a visit from two bagpipe players—In...

March 10, 2025
“Look!” one of the second graders called, without putting down his binoculars. A flock of Canadian geese flying in "V" formation passed overhead. The chorus of honks quickly disap...

March 6, 2025
Aiden created a train car that levitates using magnets. John built an electromagnet and tested his hypothesis regarding how many paper clips it could hold. Victoria created experim...

March 3, 2025
Students may have come to John Jay’s theater expecting a heartening story of justice prevailing in the criminal justice system. What they received was a first-hand look at the wor...

February 28, 2025
Meadow Pond’s gym hummed with happiness as students decorated colorful classroom banners with pipe cleaners, stickers, markers, streamers, mini pompoms and personalized paper hear...

February 28, 2025
The students opened their eyes with a start to the rap-tap-tap of a drummer’s call. Peter Cutul, a visiting educator from Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, had asked the fourth...

February 27, 2025
What do Super Bowl ads and Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre have in common? This is the uncommon conversation in Kelsey Madonna’s seventh grade social studies class ...

February 26, 2025
From the moment the students quietly sat down, the drums called out from the stage and got them moving! The children spontaneously clapped and bopped in time to the rhythms—the fa...

February 25, 2025
“One of the biggest celebrations in Poland is the Harvest Festival.” “Haiti is in the Caribbean, it shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.”“Portugal bull f...

February 25, 2025
“If you dream it, believe it, and work hard for it, anything is possible.” By the time Principal Cristy Harris reached the end of “Mae Among the Stars,” a picture book by Roda Ah...

February 20, 2025
Having only one book, and rereading it a half-dozen times? A seven-year-old using an ax, alone? A family building their house, by hand? A whole school in one room, and some of the...

February 20, 2025
“Welcome to Special Persons Day. Someone you love is here. Sit back and enjoy this concert. Let us make you feel loved.” With these words, delivered by beaming second graders on ...

February 20, 2025
"You are going to leave here smiling,” Increase Miller Elementary’s Assistant Principal Dr. Michael Weschler said to the full house gathered for the Kindergarten Kindness Concert....

February 13, 2025
The Jay Center’s lights dimmed, and, without prompt, students began waving their phone flashlights in time to The TrebleMakers’ rendition of a Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars hit. Moment...

February 12, 2025
The breadth of eighth-grade English language arts is reflected in Lisbeth Arce’s classroom. Bookshelves brim with realistic and historical fiction, and forward-facing containers o...

February 4, 2025
When this all-star video premiered at a recent Community Meeting, the energy was contagious. Soon the whole school was singing about positive bus behavior—staying seated, followin...