Agreement reached after Oakland teacher strike, but is it enough?
Sydney Riemer, Staff Writer
May 7, 2019
Filed under News, Top Stories
On Feb. 22, 2018, West Virginia teachers began a strike that would last 14 days and inspire a nationwide wave of teacher strikes in Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma, North Carolina and California that would continue into 2019. Oakland teachers walked out of school on Feb. 20, 2019 and began a seven-day stri...
Inside teacher offices
Lena Bianchi, Design Editor
January 11, 2019
Filed under Features, Online Exclusive, Podcasts and Videos
Have you ever wondered what the inside of a teacher’s office looks like? Do their offices match their personalities? Watch this video highlighting a few stories behind Urban teacher offices.
Jennifer Starkweather’s artist residency comes to an end
Zoe Lusk, Caboose Editor
November 2, 2018
Filed under Arts and Culture
Throughout the past year, Urban art teacher Jennifer Starkweather and her frequent collaborator Amanda Hughen have not only been working their day jobs, but they have also been engaged in a special environment-focused artist residency at Recology. Recology is the private company th...
Future of the Urban Theater Department
June 7, 2018
Filed under Arts and Culture
Fran After 41 years with the Urban Theater Department, Frances Evens is wrapping up her final show. Before she came to Urban, Evens describes her life as being “in line with the skill [she] needed for this job… I was in preparation,” she said. With her mother’s help, she began doing theater in ...
Breaking down grading at The Urban School
February 6, 2018
Filed under News
Walking through Urban at 5pm on Friday the day grades are released, the anxiety is palpable. Grades, especially the only letter grade we’ve seen all term, can feel so momentous. As a senior, I’ve certainly engaged in the culture of stress around grades. I never really made a distinction between my ...
We talk.
Ana Gorski, Editor of Arts and Culture
February 6, 2018
Filed under Uncategorized
When I first came to Urban my sophomore year, I never considered introversion or extroversion to be a large factor of the high school experience until I heard a rumor that “Urban is a school for extroverts.” As an anxiety-ridden young transfer, it lead me to believe that students who were ambivert...
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