Students, parents, and staff members last week contributed more than 300 construction-paper “Links of Love” in a project to honor immigrants’ contributions to our country and communities. On Thursday third graders taped and stapled the links into a single chain, which they displayed at lunchtime, then hung in the Hallway Gallery on Tier 1. Students in preschool through fifth grade participated, making links and responding to age-appropriate discussion prompts. Children from preschool through...

Elementary students were treated to a colorful Pride Fashion Show at lunchtime Friday featuring 13 elementary aftercare students wearing outfits they’d designed and made. TK teacher Chloe Gilmore explains that the event was held during Pride Month “because it allowed children to work outside gendered clothing sections in stores and create unique outfits that showed aspects of their personalities.  “Stores divide clothing into ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ sections, which can be restrictive. This fashion...

For years White Pony Director Susie Kohl has been a collector of parents’ stories, and in her new book, The Best Things Mothers Do, just released on Amazon, she shines a loving light on mothers and the ways they handle challenges, sometimes extraordinary, with creativity and resilience.  Susie considers the true stories of mothers in her book heroic because they boldly counter the culture’s stereotypes of the confused mom, either over-involved or in her child’s life or oblivious to their...