In 2024, Upper School math teacher James King walked into a Reading Room filled with food, beverages, balloons and music. English teacher Marquita Gill collaborated with King’s colleagues in the math...

Over his eight years at the school, upper school English teacher Kyle Dennan’s classroom walls have been covered in years of memories, including pictures of inside jokes and height charts. As he prepares...

Sophomore Claire Glickert attended the American Festival for the Arts for the first time the summer before she began seventh grade. Since then, she has been a part of AFA’s composition program and recently...

After a combined 25 years of teaching at the School, beloved middle school teachers David Frauenfelder and Zachary Flowerman will leave behind a Latin legacy. Frauenfelder, a middle school Latin teacher...

Adrian Pruett’s math class has transformed almost every day. It has been a stage for the class to sing about radicals; it has been a stadium for classes to relax with a game of Silent Ball after they...

While most students spend their weekends catching up on sleep or finishing homework, sophomore John Brandt Gerdes heads toward the water. At the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, he adjusts sails with the...

The moment her son Jack was diagnosed with autism in 2015, Liz Selig’s life shifted. What had once felt like a clear picture of motherhood suddenly became uncertain, filled with questions she did not...

Although Nathalie McDaniel was surrounded by over a thousand high school students at the National Junior Classical League convention, she was completely alone. In 2023, McDaniel was the only St. John’s...

As freshman Ben Nguyen stepped foot onto the Plaza for the first time, a feeling of unease formed. The only accepted student from Spring Branch Academic Institute, Nguyen knew none of his new classmates....

Upper School French teacher Elizabeth Willcutt is known for locking late students outside her classroom at the start of the carrier. On the third day of school, Upper School math teacher Bethany Goldman...

On a quiet stretch of summer before freshman year began, two middle schoolers found themselves returning to the same conversation during lunch: philosophy, ethics, politics and the kinds of questions that...

Ashna Bhagia would not hesitate to give a speech in front of her grade, yet her first time behind the podcast mic left her nervous and stuttering. “Even though I love talking to people and I love...