Twice a year at Catlin Gabel School [CGS], students receive narrative reports with an overview of their progress in each class. At the end of each overview, students can find the grade achieved in the course. Instead of a traditional letter grade, CGS utilizes alternative grading methods, opting for verbal equivalents.
Read MoreThe Diversity Summit is an annual conference that takes place here at Catlin Gabel School (CGS). At this conference, CGS hosts around 150 students from other schools in addition to their current student bodies to alk about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The summit usually includes keynote speakers, workshops, affinity groups, and performances. I wanted to look further into what students think of the summit, and more importantly what critiques they have of it.
Read More“Aaaaahhhhhh!” shrieks Catlin Gabel School (CGS) ninth grader Dylan Beckett, who plays Pugsley Addams, strapped to a torture device.
Read MoreOn Saturday, Jan. 22, 2020, about 30 teenagers huddled in Elsa Norling’s basement in northeast Portland, Ore., awaiting local artists Dial Carlos, Zoid, Paris, and Likethehighway.
Read MoreThanks, Lauren. Nice to meet you, Lauren.
I’ve been called Lauren at first encounters for almost my whole life. I’ve been called fellow Asian classmates’ names, and I’ve had my name butchered in front of hundreds of people multiple times.
Read MorePortland students from across the city walked out of class by the hundreds on Friday, Dec. 6, to participate in the latest climate change protest. The path of the march, which was led by local Pacific Islander and Indigenous youth, wound from Shemanski Park to Terry Schrunk Plaza.
Read MoreI am quiet. I like to think before I speak. I prefer having few but strong friendships. I start to feel drained in a crowded, noisy room. I love to hang out with my friends, but I need to take some time alone to recharge.
I am an introvert.
Read MoreAge demographics are often seen in nationwide polls: 18 to 29-year-olds, 30 to 49-year-olds, 50 to 64-year-olds, and 65 years and above. But getting a grasp on what high schoolers think is a far more difficult and subjective process. They aren’t included in these polls.
Read MoreIn the United States, we have a kind of music that, along with blues and jazz, is uniquely American. In country music, America is a wasteland and a sweet home, and Americans themselves are cowboys, honkey tonk guitar players, lady mule skinners, and families with a fast knowledge of “old world” ballads.
Read MoreMost Catlin Gabel School (CGS) students benefit from systems of power, and students could leave the institution furthering social inequities without proper education about their privilege.
Read MoreFreedom of speech is something hotly debated and contested in today’s socialsphere. However, not many people have talked about how school administrations limit freedom of speech for their students.
Read MoreThe 17 steps up to Dant 10 proved to be a Herculean task as I tried to crutch my way into the classroom before Dave Whitson, the Palma Scholars Program Director, could spew his infamous line: “You’re 15 seconds late.”
Read MoreConsent is often thought of in a sexual context, and lack of teaching consent is an issue that’s often seen manifested on college campuses as seen through the “no means yes” incidents. But at Catlin Gabel School (CGS), consent is taught starting in preschool.
Read MoreEver since sophomore year, I’ve walked onto campus with a smile plastered on my face even though I know that I’m faking it three-quarters of the time. I’ve sat in the student lounge with my friends and felt upset that I couldn’t find the energy within me to join them in their easy conversation. I’ve wondered why it hurts to laugh and why smiling has become just something that tenses up the muscles in my cheeks and nothing more.
Read MoreStarting in the 1870s, Portland and surrounding areas became infamous for a practice called “crimping.” Crimping, commonly known as “shanghaiing” was the act of kidnapping (often through drugging) and selling people to ship captains, men as free labor and women as prostitutes.
Read More“Wow, you’re in the smart people math class!” is something that has followed me around since the first time I placed into Findley Elementary’s “Challenge Math Program,” a math class that met five times a week. During “math time,” a handful of kids from each class in the grade would stand up from their desks, collect their things, and quietly leave to a different classroom.
Read MoreAlthough other local schools may provide higher salaries to their teachers, Catlin Gabel School (CGS) continues to attract a variety of qualified and specialized teachers.
Read MorePart of being a politician is running for election, and most politicians will tell you that this is their least favorite part of the job. For Ted Wheeler, however, it has seemed at times that his least favorite part of the job is the job itself.
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