To help the Upper School students better know new teachers to the Upper School (US) after a mostly remote year, several new teachers have answered the following questions.
The pandemic has affected everyone in our community, and seniors’ college searches have been especially different this year, with travel restrictions, less in-person tours, and campuses being closed
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Four times a year in the Catlin Gabel School (CGS) Upper School, each teacher sends a survey to the students of their class. The survey is called the Student Experience Survey, and it asks the students for feedback on how the class is going.
After a long awaited announcement of Catlin Gabel School’s transition to hybrid learning, many students have been left with questions due to the sheer magnitude of new information that is being shared with families. We sat down with Aline Garcia-Rubio, head of the Upper School (US), to answer a few important questions.
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Twelve weeks into the 2020-2021 school year, Catlin Gabel School (CGS) students found themselves adjusting to a new schedule, with Wednesdays designed to hold no classes except a morning commitment to C&C. While CGS students will now begin their transition to a hybrid model, they will still be guaranteed this “Community Wednesday.”
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As the 2020-2021 school year approached in late August and early September, schools across the country implemented different hybrid learning models to allow students to safely attend in-person classes during the pandemic. Catlin Gabel School (CGS) hopes to soon apply hybrid learning as well.
Less than a month and a half after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were approved for emergency use by the FDA, 24.7 million doses have already been administered, with 3.8 million people fully vaccinated. Despite new, more infectious variants, depressing totals of 4,000 deaths on Jan. 26 alone and over 25 million reported cases and 425,000 deaths in the U.S, and a slower-than-expected rollout, the vaccine offers glimmers of hope for life after COVID-19.
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While communities throughout the Portland metropolitan area were greeted by accumulating snow the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 26, metro area students shared contrasting comments on the concept of virtual “snow days.”
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Upper School students have been on all kinds of recent adventures outside of school. Here are a variety of photos (some with captions) about their experiences.
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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.
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From 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.
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As 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?
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As 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
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On 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.
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College 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.
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Every 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.
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At Catlin Gabel School (CGS), the student-led Anti Racist Collective (ARC) is the newest facet of the school’s progress towards antiracism.
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We’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.
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