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Students and Their Mental Health: How Schools Can Help Through Early Screening

By Olivia Johnson Fall 2025 Intern|2025-10-23T18:19:11-04:00October 14th, 2025|

As Mental Illness Awareness Week comes to a close, and in honor of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, here are some ways that educators are addressing their students’ mental health. Screening and Prevention Programs Many schools and educational organizations have started implementing screening and prevention programs that address students’ mental health struggles. Common screenings include questions about a student’s suicidal ideations, [...]

Understanding the Basics of Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

By Emma Zande Fall 2025 Intern|2025-11-10T11:31:45-05:00October 8th, 2025|

Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic saw an education system rattled and rearranged as a result of mandated public shutdowns and quarantine protocols. Today, parents, educators, and policymakers are voicing concerns about students’ mental health and social skills following an extended period of technology-mediated interaction. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs have risen in popularity to address these concerns. What is Social Emotional Learning? [...]

Where Does School Lunch Come From?

By Nathan Hilyard Summer 2025 Intern|2025-11-10T11:38:32-05:00July 29th, 2025|

It’s a classic American scene: The lunch lady plops a mysterious jiggling blob onto your tray. The mystery meat seeps juice, slimily mingling with peas and coating the bottom of your milk carton. Just as you have time to gaze down in despair, she cries out: NEXT! Luckily this scene is mostly fiction, but the basic menu of meat, bread, vegetables, and dairy [...]

The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools

By Allison Sawyer Summer 2025 Intern|2025-10-08T14:19:06-04:00July 23rd, 2025|

Introduction Cellphones have always been the hot topic amongst teenagers alike. Conversations of the latest model, all the upgrades it contains, and where to find the cutest cellphone cases run rampant throughout schools. The real problem lies within the constant usage of cellphones in classrooms, disrupting the sole student and others around them. Cellphone Bans Across Schools Cellphone bans have steadily increased across [...]

Are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Teaching Aids the Key to “No Child Left Behind”?

By Allison Sawyer Summer 2025 Intern|2025-10-08T14:17:07-04:00July 19th, 2025|

The Creation of Kahnmigo - With the sudden uptick in AI usage, people have either leaned away from it or embraced it entirely. In this case, AI has been an invaluable tool in moving forward to a future where all children are given the opportunity to have a proper education. Stand Together Trust, a company that leads in education innovation, has decided to [...]

The Benefits of Translation

By Nathan Hilyard Summer 2025 Intern|2025-10-08T14:29:03-04:00July 2nd, 2025|

My senior year of high school I spent an entire semester trudging through Francisco Jiménez’s autobiographical novel, Cajas de Cartón. Though the book was middle grade fiction, my English-speaking mind had to take its time moving in this new language. Sentence to sentence, the new vocabulary padded around in my brain, each phrase a new net of meaning that gave these words a [...]

STEM vs STEAM

By Nathan Hilyard Summer 2025 Intern|2025-10-08T14:39:54-04:00June 11th, 2025|

In an increasingly technological world, it is no surprise that our systems of education focus on training young thinkers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or as they are known together: STEM. STEM has become a leading buzzword on the resumes of up and coming professionals, guiding how educators and employers prioritize the development of these practical, technological skills. Studies show that STEM [...]

Drum Majors, is the Band Ready? For Life?

By Nathan Hilyard Summer 2025 Intern|2025-11-12T15:53:05-05:00June 10th, 2025|

Drum majors, is the band ready? The inquisition echoes across the field. Friday night lights shimmer off the bells of horns, your elbows ache at attention. In just a few moments, you will get the command to raise your instrument and set off on the sub-ten minute journey known as the field show. A coordinated movement of some 100+ students, all in matching [...]

A Case for Long Books

By Nathan Hilyard Summer 2025 Intern|2025-11-12T16:03:53-05:00June 3rd, 2025|

I’ve always been drawn to the allure of a long book. In middle school, I remember lugging around a hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, proudly turning startled heads as I thumped the book to my desk during break time. I took a certain pride in wading through these long books, feeling that there was something to be [...]

A Brief History of Illustration

By Nathan Hilyard Summer 2025 Intern|2025-11-12T15:59:08-05:00May 27th, 2025|

The best part of story time was when the teacher finished reading a page aloud and rotated the book, revealing to an eager class the wide, glossy pages of illustrations illuminating what we’d just heard. John Locke understood this when he argued that pictures were essential to a child’s comprehension of a story as for children, showing is always better than telling.[1] By [...]