When it came to finding a middle school for my daughter, I was admittedly “that mom” —the one who was a little overzealous about finding the right school. I did my research, crunched all the data and summarized all my findings in a bigger-than-life spreadsheet— all...

I began my eleventh year of teaching at GALS and my twenty-first year of teaching overall as though I’d hardly ever taught before. In the first few weeks, I’ve joked with my colleagues and friends that I feel like a newborn baby of a teacher who is learning anew the...

Dear GALS Community! Happy Fall!! The past 18 months have been like an alternate reality for many of us. For our students, this was a real shift in their adolescent lives as they knew it. As we finished up our fifth week of school, we wanted to reach out to share a...