The Catlin Gabel School (CGS) Environmental Action Team (EAT) created an innovative challenge aimed at reducing carbon emissions, a leading cause of climate change. The project was spearheaded by three CGS ninth graders: Campbell Swaim, Sofia Rutman, and Mahala Lambert.
Read MoreFrom teaching during a pandemic to student run non-profit Babies with Books, the Elevate with Spark @ Catlin Gabel (Elevate) Podcast has shared a myriad of topics and projects with the Catlin Gabel School (CGS) community. CGS Educational Technology Specialist Rob van Nood started the podcast nearly three years ago, and since then his listenership has steadily grown to a few hundred people per episode.
Read MoreAs part of Catlin Gabel School’s (CGS) commitment to inclusion and diversity, one area that some students feel is neglected and overlooked is the study of and conversation around religion. With the upcoming holiday break coinciding with predominantly Christian holidays, it leaves students to wonder: is CGS religiously inclusive?
Read MoreAs we begin the holiday season, families seeking tradition and joy have been further thwarted by a worrying upward trend in cases, deaths, and hospitalizations associated with COVID-19
Read MoreOn Oct. 28, Oregon Governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Department of Education released new guidelines for having school on campus. These updates significantly relaxed the restrictions and thresholds needed for on-campus learning.
Read MoreCollege admissions across the nation are changing in light of COVID-19, which poses a unique application process for this year’s seniors, the Class of 2021.
Read MoreEvery year, families around the nation celebrate a spooky holiday by carving pumpkins, dressing up in their most terrifying costumes, and trick-or-treating. But with a global pandemic looming overhead, this year's Halloween was more trick than treat.
Read MoreAt Catlin Gabel School (CGS), the student-led Anti Racist Collective (ARC) is the newest facet of the school’s progress towards antiracism.
Read MoreWe’ve all been subject to a three-year-old who believes that they can get away with sneaking a cookie, even when their hands and mouth are littered with crumbs. “I didn’t take the cookie,” they swear. “I was in my room the entire time!” Parents are typically angry and disappointed in their young children, reprimanding them and promising harsher punishment the next time they would dare to lie. However, the majority of kids continue to do so.
Read MoreWith classes functioning completely online since the start of the school year, many students at Catlin Gabel School (CGS) are already experiencing Zoom fatigue or Zoom burnout, that feeling that students can’t possibly continue going about school this way. The symptoms include lack of motivation, headaches, extreme drowsiness, depression, and anxiety or higher levels of stress. All of these symptoms can have a negative on students' overall mental health.
Read MoreSince the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Portland Public Schools (PPS) has worked to find ways to provide meals to those students who need them. Many students who attend public schools rely on the school for meals during the week.
Read MoreOn Sept. 10, in response to our nation's recent and powerful outcry for racial justice, Catlin Gabel School (CGS) Head Tim Bazemore, sent out a schoolwide email containing a statement and draft for potential plans to make CGS an antiracist institution.
Read MoreAs the 2019-20 school year came to a close in early June, the world around us erupted in every way possible. One of the leading forces of this eruption was the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests due to the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. (May they rest in power.) Determined and concerned Catlin Gabel School (CGS) students joined forces to combat racism and created a new student group called the Anti-Racist Collective, or ARC.
Read MoreAlthough the logistics of getting to and from the mountain might prove troublesome for winter sports athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic, some Catlin Gabel School (CGS) skiers remain optimistic about hitting the slopes this year.
Read MoreGiven the remote shift to the beginning of the school year, ninth graders face new challenges of immersing themselves into a new community.
Read MoreSince the start of remote learning and the COVID-19 pandemic at Catlin Gabel School (CGS), 13 more students have required financial aid for tuition, and 35 students who were already in the financial aid program needed additional help.
Read MoreAs Catlin Gabel School (CGS) endures the struggles of remote learning, work on the newly acquired Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) campus has slowed.
Read MoreCatlin Gabel School’s (CGS) first ever Hispanic Affinity Group for the Upper School (US) will meet this year during the remote learning period.
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