Student-athletes are becoming drained from having to do multiple workouts a day as school athletics get more competitive and gym classes become more intensive. This leads many athletes to wonder if gym...
What was an interesting previous job before teaching?
The last full-time job I held prior to teaching (and during my first two years of teaching) was as a lab technician at a place called Geotechnical...
“They’re going to take our phones at the beginning of the day.” “Our bathroom time is going to be limited”. These were just some of the rumors circulating around NAI in the week before the disciplinary...
After three long nine week periods of school, NA students are going to have a lengthy nine day spring break, the longest spring break the district has had in a while.
While the break will be longer...
Normally, sophomores in high school are solely focused on doing better in school, athletics, or extracurricular activities. However, there are always a select few who, in addition to the three things listed...
What was an interesting previous job before teaching?
I had several previous jobs. I spent one summer working on a seed farm.
What was it like?
Among the tasks I had on the seed farm...
Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron in London, England, December 10, 1815 to Lord Byron, a famous poet, and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who divorced 2 months after her birth. Her mother was known to...
When you're in high school, you want to fit in. You have to fit in, the thought of not fitting in is enough to make you sweat. It’s enough to make me sweat.
Because the movies suggest that standing...
Names. There are so many. It is one reason that each and every person is different from the rest. Something people are called since the day they were born. Something that is yelled to grab someone’s...
NAI Sophomores were hit with a shock when teachers announced the details for scheduling for their first year at NASH. The excitement of seeing such a wide variety of options for their Junior year was called...
Walking into class to learn about a challenging then topic to miss homeroom and, sometimes, the beginning of your second-period class while riding on a shuttle bus. This is the daily routine for one sophomore...
"A springboard for my future," says Sarah Sharar, a senior at North Allegheny’s Senior High School, describing what NA means to her.
With a vast school district like NA comes an environment filled...