Students trickle into Tim Harig’s World History classroom sixth hour, and most of them make comments about the cold classroom. They pull on sweatshirts before settling into their chairs. Each time a...

Learn from losses. Love life anyway. Molly Stephenson, English teacher, introduces her six-word mantra to her students on the first day of school each semester. In order to learn more about each other,...

It was a normal Tuesday at lunch, except for one thing--Mandy Obermeier’s students pushed their popcorn on unsuspecting students during the Top Chef final challenge. “The students have been working...

Patrice Jackson, KHS graduate, and Mark O'Connor visited the KHS symphonic orchestra class Feb. 24 to present and perform some of O'Connor's compositions. O'Connor, violinist, has won two Grammys and composed...

Ron Sanford, business teacher, was waist deep in salmon guts. He stood in a vat of discarded fish entrails, heads and blood, tasked with unclogging a drain deep beneath the surface. Wearing only fishing...

Shark attacks were Adam Scimone’s favorite part of working in the Florida Keys at a marine science institute. “We had a little pool on the property that would fill up with seawater, and when I would...

As a defense attorney for the City of St. Louis, lawyer-turned-social-studies-teacher Peter Stragand worked on cases from minor misdemeanors to homicides. “There’s a little theater about it,”...

Gina Muller, Spanish teacher, taught English at a Madrid language academy and taught Spanish at a London international school. After completing her undergraduate studies, Muller spontaneously traveled...

Steve Jonak, math teacher, was a second lieutenant in the Air Force studying to become an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) officer at Vandenberg Air Force base in Lompoc, Calif. "About two...

Money, romance, betrayal, forgiveness, change and acceptance, just about everything you would find in an episode of Gossip Girl, but not what you would expect in a serious production about an African-American...