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Students are no longer allowed to have their devices out in class. 

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“I Am Not Eating That Cursed Jambalaya”

I realized I can celebrate my problems. I can experience magical moments with the people I love. That is what keeps me going.

Meet Brock Dunn: Interim Head of School

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Do Not Ban Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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For an artistic response prompt, students were asked to write mock-ups of modernized short stories inspired by classic folk tales such as “The Stubborn Child” by The Brothers Grimm.

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Students of Kyle Wiggins’ science fiction course were given the better part of a class period to create an advertisement for a potential future product that might exist in a distant dystopian/utopian world.

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The bad acting is intentional.

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Sci-Fi Ads

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