Hello from the Journey Studio, and welcome to our first newsletter of Session 2! This session, several new learners have joined the Journey Studio and have quickly become an integral part of our community. We’re excited to have them with us! Genre: Preparing for TED Talks This week in Genre, we researched some outstanding TED Talks to use as models for the talks we’ll be presenting at this session’s Exhibition. After familiarizing ourselves with the TED Talk format, we began

Greetings, parents, grandparents, and families! Welcome to the final newsletter of Session 1! This week, our Journey learners wrapped up their projects, completed their badges, explored questions about philanthropy, and shared their work at the Journey Exhibition. Genre: Research Speeches and Badge Compilation This week in Genre, learners submitted their speeches for greenlighting. Each speech focused on the biography of a researcher they had chosen earlier in the session. On

Greetings, parents, grandparents, and families! Welcome to Week 6 of the Journey Studio newsletter. This week, learners continued exploring behavioral economics through Genre and Quest while studying influential entrepreneurs and the rise of Standard Oil in Civ. They also enjoyed a full day of outdoor activities at Alpine! Genre: Improving Our Behavioral Economics Experiments This week in Genre, learners continued researching behavioral economics and explored ways to improve

Greetings, parents, grandparents, and families! Welcome to Week 5 of the Journey Studio newsletter. This week, learners continued exploring behavioral economics through Genre and Quest while researching the inventions of radio and television in Civ. They also enjoyed an exciting field trip to a balloon museum! Genre: Exploring Behavioral Economics This week, learners participated in several experiments exploring how our brains process information and influence our decisions.

Hello, parents, grandparents, and family members! Welcome to the Week 4 Newsletter from the Journey Studio. This week, learners continued researching and reflecting on how the human mind works, with a particular focus on behavioral economics, behavioral experiments, and the factors that influence human decision-making. Genre: Optimism, Pessimism & Behavioral Economics This week in Genre, learners began exploring what it means to be optimistic or pessimistic. They considered h

Welcome, everyone! This week was filled with fun challenges and new discoveries. Even better, it marked the beginning of our Civilization and Behavioral Economics Quest! Genre This week in Genre, learners began researching and reflecting on rational versus irrational decision-making. Part of this work involved thinking about the decisions they make in their own lives and considering whether those decisions are rational or irrational. Afterward, learners researched different b

Hello from the Journey Studio! A lot has happened this week, and I’ll be telling you all about it in this edition of the Journey Newsletter. Genre: Discovering Our Gifts, Passions & Purpose This week, the learners spent time reflecting on their gifts, passions, and an injustice they would like to fix. These reflections are helping them think about the next steps in their own Hero’s Journey. On Wednesday, the learners began working on their Hero Boards. After receiving feedbac

Hello from the Journey Studio! This is the first Journey Newsletter of the 2026–2027 school year. We started the year this week with many new learners joining us. We also began working on our Lip Dub Quest and Hero Boards. Genre This week in Genre, we spent time thinking about who we are as people and what heroic habits are. After reflecting on our own heroic habits, we each came up with five people whose heroic habits we would like to model. Throughout the rest of the week,