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Arts Update: Alternative Photography and Drawtober!

September 18, 2026

Alternative Process Photography in the IMPACT Lab

The grades 7 & 8 arts elective, alternative process photography, has officially kicked off, and the results are already impressive. Students jumped straight into hands-on experimentation, manipulating light sources and testing textures to produce beautiful compositions.

Working in collaborative groups, the artists layered translucent images, masked light, and stacked textures to create dynamic, high-contrast compositions. Watching these groups work with color and play with light has been a joy.

Sixth Grade Preps for Drawtober

Pencils are sharpened, and plenty of G.O.O.S. (good on one side) paper is being sourced: Sixth Grade Innovation Arts is preparing for Drawtober 2026! The list of daily drawing prompts for the month of October has been selected by our sixth graders, and they are ready to draw. Keep an eye out; the prompt reveal and full calendar drop are coming soon!

– Brit Conroy, innovation coach

A student at a desk holding a pencil with a math textbook

By Sarah Pikcilingis, seventh grade math teacher |

October 9, 2026

A seemingly simple warm-up exercise in a recent seventh grade math class posed the question, “For each pair of shapes, decide whether or not they are the same.” This warm-up should take 2 or 3 minutes. Instead, when they checked…
Two students set up a marble run in science class

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October 9, 2026

What is energy? Where does the energy in roller coaster cars come from? Does a coaster’s height affect its speed? These are some of the questions fourth graders are asking in science class. To answer these questions, students have been…
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October 2, 2026

Students in eighth-grade English read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders over the summer and have spent the first few weeks of school engaging in discussions to deepen their thinking and perhaps expand their perspectives on the book’s themes. They also have…
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