by Sheila Sherwin | Mar 20, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Kaleidoscope
For his YIHS Senior Project, Charlie developed and executed “Food For Thought”… A food truck that today is one of the student body’s biggest fundraisers. After graduating from YIHS, I left my idyllic small-town childhood for The University of...
by Sheila Sherwin | Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was recently knitting in the teacher’s lounge of the bilingual school where I now work, and one of my Spanish colleagues asked me if I knew how to say “knitting” in Spanish. I responded that I couldn’t think of the word at the moment, but I knew it in German. The...
by Sheila Sherwin | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
My father taught in a public high school for 35 years. I was fortunate enough to be one of his students so I can say for myself what others have said to me over the years – he was a truly gifted educator. His dedication and love of subject matter (Shakespeare,...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 27, 2019 | Kaleidoscope
By Jeffrey Marshall Although it has been more than a decade since I graduated from Youth Initiative High School (YIHS), I can say without reservation that it played a profound role in my development as a critical thinker and globally-minded citizen. YIHS has a way of...
by Sheila Sherwin | Dec 27, 2019 | Kaleidoscope, Uncategorized
By Emily Colacino In the twelve years since I graduated from Youth Initiative High School I have many times found myself in unexpected situations, feeling grateful for the unique and well-rounded education I received and the ways in which it prepared me for the real...
