April 21, 2026 5:15-7 PM

Adam Choper, Director of Westchester County’s Hilltop Hanover Farm, passed out pappus, white fluffy seed heads, from Showy Goldenrod for the seventh-grade students in Christina Co...

Teams of sixth graders sat at tables throughout the library, immersed in planning the worst Ancient Mesopotamian pilgrimages, ever. A herd of cows blocks the travelers’ way, a dus...

Watching bowing technique from just a few feet away, noting how musicians use eye contact and head motions to communicate with each other, listening to a world-class performance i...

James Polos, Army, who served in Korea, reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a carefully folded napkin. Inside was a Purple Heart. “This was my dad’s,” he said. “I never ...

Standing up for what’s right. Caring for other people. Being someone who people trust and count on. Listening to everyone and being open to other perspectives. These are some o...

While students had the day off on Tuesday, teachers and staff spent a productive Professional Learning Day discussing elementary math priority standards, exploring project based l...

Sustainability. Collaboration. Design. Persistence. Not many projects fold in all these lessons. The mural in John Jay Middle’s library certainly does. The 16-foot work was fabri...

“Cocoa was so excited when we got here this morning,” said John Jay Middle School’s social worker Ray DiStephan. “Her tail was wagging up a storm.” We were sitting in his office,...

The middle school's Makerspace is off to a great start! Students pop into the relaxed recess option, slip into creative mode and come back again and again because they’ve found an...

Did you hear them from your home? One of the challenges at John Jay Middle School’s Pep Rally was a cheering contest. “Cheer as loud as you can for your grade!” said Principal Jef...

A group of sixth graders stands on a low platform, looking at the cluster of students on another wooden platform about 12 feet away. A rope swing hangs between them. How will we...

“It’s second lunch,” said one of the sixth-grade students, about to take his first bite of just off-the-griddle French toast. The aroma of vanilla and cinnamon fills the room. “I’...

The season opener at Katonah-Lewisboro Schools was full of good feelings. Superintendent Ray Blanch led the team-building pep rally for all the employees of Katonah-Lewisboro Sch...

They started the day as eighth graders; by noon they were high school students. While the young people’s milestone seemed so sudden, the all-class slideshow, prepared by teacher S...

It felt as though you could almost touch the sparks of ideas flying in Katonah Elementary’s fifth grade classrooms. It was exciting enough that Lisbeth Arce’s eighth grade student...

Peek into one of the apartments in an insulae, the four or five story apartment buildings of ancient Rome. “They were livable, but often collapsed,” said Gavin. Stella’s model o...

Students’ eyes sparkled with delight during Team Zest’s Expo of Learning. They were the experts, and their parents were the ones solving algebraic equations and proofreading parag...

Just three miles from their classroom, students arrive in the lush, green world of Ward Pound Ridge Reservation. They’ve come to Kimberly’s Bridge, a bend in Cross River, to relea...

What exactly are carbon credits? If there is more water in the world, since all the ice is melting, why are there still droughts even in places like here in New York? What do YOU...