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The student news site of Grand Center Arts Academy, St. Louis, MO

GCAAtoday

The student news site of Grand Center Arts Academy, St. Louis, MO

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Eleanor Phillips, senior

Eleanor Phillips, senior

Brooke Schuessler, Staff Writer May 10, 2018

“If I could travel back to any time period it would the medieval times. It would be that time period because that's when the world starts coming out of the dark ages and starts creating the art and culture...

Quiz: Can you guess these staff members by their baby photos?

Quiz: Can you guess these staff members by their baby photos?

Aurora Phillips, Staff Writer May 9, 2018

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, see if you can guess these staff members from baby photos. (function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https://embed.playbuzz.com/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk'));

Nyla Burns, freshman

Nyla Burns, freshman

Kennedy Brown, Staff Writer May 7, 2018

“I prefer drawing, but I do like digital art because I have an Ipad pro and an Apple pen. So I use that a lot, and I think its cool because I wanna be an animator when I’m older. I want to create my...

Diana Rudolph middle school teacher, quietly  took notes on high school history teacher, Evan Smiths incorporative teaching style; While students followed along in Smiths lesson taking notes and shouting out opinions.

Arts and academics: teacher collaboration and observation

Kennedy Brown, Staff Writer May 4, 2018

Teachers and administrators came together in March to observe one another's classes and gain a new perspective about the inner workings of different classes. Educators all around the school participated...

Reggie Coleman, junior

Reggie Coleman, junior

Ace Moen, Staff Writer May 3, 2018

"I am very curious to see what is going to happen in my future. I’m really not nervous about it. I want it to happen. I want the future to come to see what I can accomplish and how much I can do to change...

Jay Mitchell, freshman, lived with her mom ever since her mom got a divorce with Jay’s dad. After that, Jay’s mom got laid off of work and after that moved in with Jay’s grandmother.  “The place that she [her grandmother] lives in is horrible. There’s roaches and rats. I used to sleep on the couch and on the couch the roches would crawl on me and rats would be on me when I was sleeping. All I would do was flick them off and go back to sleep, even though I was kind of scared, because rats and roaches are on me,” Mitchell said. After that Mitchell’s mom decided they should leave and go live in a hotel.

 Parent Teacher Organization and staff join forces to help students in transition

Aliena Yost, Staff Writer May 2, 2018

Parents, counselors and teachers have helped students that are in transition and are in need of additional help. They have become more aware of students and their actions, especially since there has been...

Madison Hathaway Wheeler, 8th grade

Madison Hathaway Wheeler, 8th grade

Natalie O'Dell, Staff Writer April 30, 2018

"I had anger issues, so my counselor at my old school would talk to me, and she would get to know me not as the Madison who always got in trouble, but as the Madison who is really smart and really caring,...

Riley Wild, 6th grade

Riley Wild, 6th grade

Natalie O'Dell, Staff Writer April 26, 2018

“You can express your feelings and emotions through other music, but with singing...it's actually saying the words that you feel and getting the expressions and emotions out,” -Riley Wild, 6th grade 

Students meet with prominent black St. Louisans for cross-curricular STEAM Museum project

Students meet with prominent black St. Louisans for cross-curricular STEAM Museum project

  While the month of February focuses on black history, the students in Travis Armknecht and Caitlin Munguia's classes chose to look not only backward but also forward by interviewing prominent...

Google Arts and Cultures new selfie feature receives mixed reviews

Google Arts and Culture’s new “selfie” feature receives mixed reviews

Paisley Regester, Staff Writer January 30, 2018

Google Art and Culture’s new, free app has recently gone viral. The app analyzes and matches an individual’s face to the subjects of famous paintings. The paintings are collected from a database containing...

Charles Pierson, junior

Charles Pierson, junior

Aurora Phillips, Staff Writer December 12, 2017

"Being at this school, and especially being at an art school, you’re constantly thinking about the future, at least in my perspective. I’m constantly thinking about the future, and what’s next for...

Rusty Smith, high school counselor

Rusty Smith, high school counselor

Elyse Luecke, Managing Editor December 8, 2017

"Do not put too much value into what other people say about you. Especially if it comes across negatively, that you need to look at that person and determine, 'Do I respect them?' and if I do, then maybe...

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