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Freshman Reps; Bridging the Gap
Freshman Reps; Bridging the Gap
Jonathan Carr has taught in Portland for nearly 25 years, many of which have been at Grant High School.
Mr. Carr: Behind the Teacher
Getting the most out of her dual citizenship, Mirabel Kotamarti will learn political science from a new perspective in Canada. Courtesy of Mirabel Kotamarti.
A Broad Scope
The Grant Constitution team listens to Rep. Maxine Dexter. Dexter talked about how civic engagement and open dialogue help maintain a healthy democracy.
“Superstars”: Rep. Dexter Speaks to the Grant High School Constitution Team
Courtesy of Anya Zucker.
End of an Artistic Era
Jonathan Carr has taught in Portland for nearly 25 years, many of which have been at Grant High School.
Mr. Carr: Behind the Teacher
Melody Rockwell guides students through a mandala project in her Grant High School art classroom, offering feedback while encouraging creativity and personal expression.
More Than Art: How Melody Rockwell Helps Students Create Themselves
Kimberlee Armstrong became a teacher at 31 years old, after spending several years working with nonprofits and as a student mentor.
Leading With Purpose
Don Gavitte’s time as a teacher at Grant High School and as a parent have paralleled each other. To him, so have the core lessons.
An Encompassing Pursuit
“I was at Shreiner’s Iris garden and I saw this cat. He was lying in the grass, sunbathing, and I was experimenting with double exposure. One of my (favorite) animal shots,” says Meghna Rickabaugh Rich.
More Than a Lens
Grant Fisher graduated from Grant High School in 2015, and played baseball throughout his education in high school and college (Courtesy of Laura Fisher).
Grant Fisher: A Lasting Legacy
Coaches Make The Call
Coaches Make The Call
Grant Women's Soccer huddled with matching “Save the Bread” bracelets.
From Rituals to Results: Grant Athletes’ Paths to Success
Concrete to Diamond
Concrete to Diamond
Fair Play?
Fair Play?
A New School of Thought
A New School of Thought
All in The Acting
All in The Acting
Taking care of Batts proved difficult for her family as her illness progressed. Elizabeth and Alan Batts say that in the months before her death, she cut off communication and isolated herself.
A Life Derailed
Playing the Part
Playing the Part
Even though Olivia Bee's work largely centers around working for commercial companies, she's stayed true to the artistic style she's developed over the years, something she describes as "documentary with a romantic eye."
Capturing the Light
From Pitch to Print: Behind the Scenes of Grant Magazine
From Pitch to Print: Behind the Scenes of Grant Magazine
Meet the Staff: Grant Magazine 2024-2025
Meet the Staff: Grant Magazine 2024-2025
Senior Video 2023
Senior Video 2023
Grant's new Digital Photography and Printmaking teacher spends his free time making various pieces of art.
The Media Man
Courtesy of Anya Zucker.
End of an Artistic Era
Photos of past Rose Princesses line Grant’s north hallway. Grant has participated in this tradition for at least 97 years; its inaugural Rose Festival Queen, Dorothy Hardin, was chosen in 1937. A past student saved a clipping of the Oregonian documenting this tradition between the pages of a 1956 yearbook.
Paging Through The Past
Critiques on the Coastal East
Critiques on the Coastal East
Mental Hell
Mental Hell
More Than a Sport: A Lifestyle
Creating Sanctuary in a Divided Nation
Podcast: A Choice of Words, a Matter of Conscience
Podcast: A Choice of Words, a Matter of Conscience
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Umbraphile Opens Grant High School’s Second Teen-y Desk
Umbraphile Opens Grant High School’s Second Teen-y Desk
On Wednesday, Dec. 17, Grant High School’s Jewish Student Alliance set out a poster and bouquets of flowers at Grant’s front entrance and main hall to commemorate the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
“May Their Memory Forever be a Blessing”: Grant High School’s Jewish Student Alliance Commemorates Victims of Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack
Exterior of the current, unrenovated, Jefferson High School.
PPS Proposes Ending Dual Assignment Zones, Predicted to Reduce Overcrowding at Grant High School and Improve Elective Funding at Others
Grant High School’s yearbook program has been in operation for 100 years. Now, it is facing a new challenge.
Major Changes in Grant High School’s Yearbook Program
Grant High School's pep band performing at homecoming. A day earlier, the Portland Public Schools Board of Education updated band directors' contracts, allowing them to be paid for pep band performances, among other work.
Pep Band Returns After Board Updates Contract
A PAT-sponsored billboard on Broadway that says “Can’t put students first if you put teachers last".
In My Opinion: PPS to Blame and State to Shame
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Colorful tops and blouses fill The Shopp’s racks.
Thrifting for a Cause
From Nov. 1–Nov. 21, 2023, Grant High School teachers picketed on the corner of NE US Grant Place and NE 33rd Avenue every school day.
Solidarity Strong
BREAKING: PPS’s First Teachers Strike
Two parents wearing fleece jackets point to a brick wall with a white poster covered in colorful sticky-notes.
BREAKING: PAT Introduces Expansive, Community-Centric Bargaining Proposal
Pablo Navarro performs at a Pandemonium open mic.
In the Spotlight: Music in Motion
Club leaders from left to right: Delilah Fox, Stella Fox, Paige Axness and Beatrice Gregory. Mira O’Donnell out of town, not pictured.
Period Club Returns
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Haleigh Tjensvold practicing her contemporary dance, one that requires her to show her emotions through the movement. “Dance...feeds your movement, and it's almost like your movement always has a hunger for more, more feeling,” Tjensvold says.
In the Right Company
Editorial: Liberty and Justice for All?
Editorial: Liberty and Justice for All?
Time With: Speed Racer
Time With: Speed Racer
Grant's new Digital Photography and Printmaking teacher spends his free time making various pieces of art.
The Media Man
Just Keep Swimming
Just Keep Swimming
The Optimist
The Optimist
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