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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

“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...

“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...

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...

“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 ...

"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....

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...

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...

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...

What is the impact of fruiting trees on backyard bird populations? Are there waste streams that can be recycled through concrete that reduce the carbon emissions of the constructi...

Congratulations to John Jay High School’s physics teacher Jim Panzer, who was an invited speaker at the American Association of Physics Teachers conference in St. Louis, Missouri,...

The sixth graders are gathered in pairs and trios around a half dozen vertical white boards, thinking about n . Math teacher Selina Hedigan wrote the equation 8n + 6 = 2(4n + 3...

Three students modeling the latest in letter A walked down the center of Meadow Pond’s cafeteria—a runway lined with family members. All smiles, they posed for a moment, then circ...