5th Graders Organize Standing March 5th-grade students at Jackson Street School organized a Standing March outside the school today. Students of all grades and ages were encouraged to participate by listening to speeches, creating signs, and standing by the road to get their message out to passersby. The organizers described their reasoning for calling it...
The students at Ryan Road and Jackson Street dove into the beginning of year with high-tech projects such as seen here–building Piper computers with the use of Raspberry Pi’s and monitors. Students traditionally have a step by step curriculum for each grade level exposing them to different aspects of this overall project like the physical...
Hi JSS, I hope everyone is in the back-to-school swing of things! I have a few newsletter things to share with you, but first, I want to tell you a tiny story. One of our students was having a tricky moment (as we all do), and a JSS educator chatted with them about their shirt...
Dear families, Happy Pride Month! Whoever you are, whomever and however you love, you have a home at Jackson Street. As a parent and as an educator, I want the kids in my care to know that they rock, no matter who they turn out to be. One of the people to whom I turn...
Hello, Jackson Street! It is so nice to have a school full of teachers and children! I hope the return has been happy and relatively smooth for all of you, too. It has also been lovely to see so much activity outside. Teachers have been taking kids outside a ton, which I bet is something...
Hello JSS Families, It has been so nice to see the building full of children and teachers again! Everywhere I turn, I see educators working hard and happy kids having fun at school. There has been an update to the schedule for elementary students that I would like to tell you about. Wednesday, April 14th and Wednesday,...