Valentine’s day symbolizes more than just an anniversary. It is a day for proposals, new love, and continuations of strong romantic bonds. It opens a portal to rekindling past relationships, gift-giving, affection-showing, and most importantly the gifting of chocolate. Yet, … Continue reading Valentine’s Day: How a Misogynistic Festival Came to Symbolize Love
And here’s what we did the past 24 hours. We did what we loved, and stopped what we hated. Dr Benjamin Lee The morning of November 5 begun in downpour. Sheets of rain assaulted students who The morning of November … Continue reading Relay for Life 2021 – Doing what we love
“Oh, I love seeing teachers outside of school. It’s like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs,” says Janis Ian from the movie Mean Girls. A while ago a friend told me how unfathomable to her it was that … Continue reading An introduction to some teachers’ (animal) pets
Innovation Institute- we’ve all heard about it, we’ve all seen it, and we’ve all been inconvenienced by its awkwardly stationed doors, but what exactly is it? Innovation institute, according to Ms. Young, one of the teachers and coordinators of this program is “an interdisciplinary style of teaching and learning, and a collaborative environment.” Students who choose to do innovation institute are signing up for a two year course where they will be versed in subjects such as Asian History, Science, and English. The other courses such as Math, Language, PE, and an elective, are taken on A days. The courses … Continue reading Innovation Institute: An (informative) Exposé
Find out about the story behind the rainbow stickers that have manifested around the school. Continue reading Introducing LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Training
When one thinks of an artist, one thinks of passion and confidence. At SAS Pudong, no teacher wields these qualities quite as well as Mr. Stephen Finegold. As the PAC director of the school, Finegold manages most performances, on top of teaching his theatre classes. Any student or collaborator of his can surely tell you of his dedication to teaching the arts. Continue reading Teacher Profiles: Stephen Finegold
“Mental health-wise, I’m definitely doing well. By now it’s probably the opposite of my usual pre-coronavirus state, because I’m able to take more breaks.” Continue reading Quotidian reflections while in quarantine
There is little question that the COVID-19 pandemic has made people more distrustful of one another. In a time when anyone and anything could be a disease carrier, it is difficult to not be suspicious. A visceral manifestation of this distrust is violent xenophobia, expressed in public acts of brutality against Asians: a Singaporean University College London (UCL) student in the streets of London, and even an Asian-American family and child in a Texas supermarket. Such distrust shows when people dub COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.” It shows when people inside China call it “Wuhan pneumonia” and panic at the … Continue reading A Pandemic’s Crisis of Trust
Within a week, just as faculty, administration, students, and families dispersed all over the world for the Chinese New Year break, everything fell apart. The COVID-19 reality soon settled in, and thus the administration abandoned their breaks in favor of generating a Distance Learning Plan from scratch. With major administrative forces such as Mr. Marcel Gauthier, Dr. Benjamin Lee, Ms. Kristen Dickhaut, and Ms. Emily Sargent-Beasley pioneering SAS efforts in response to the crisis, versatility and flexibility became traits of high demand. Experience from SARS and H1N1 outbreaks were belittled by the sheer reach of COVID-19. Now, after around three … Continue reading A homage to the tireless efforts of SAS faculty and administration in responding to COVID-19
Darcy Dixon, a Shanghai American School Pudong High School psychology teacher, arrived home with her husband Bret Drury, a physics teacher, mid-March after an exhausting return to Shanghai. Dixon found the process of returning to Shanghai daunting for herself and … Continue reading Operation Speed Dial: A Short-Lived, Yet Heartwarming Endeavor