Blue Ridge Elementary Writing Celebration

Grant Musicians Perform with Master Drummer

Grant Elementary School musicians recently performed with University of Missouri visiting scholar and master drummer Emmanuel Agbeli at the Missouri Theatre. 

Life Sized Number Lines Teach Math Concepts

Russell Elementary School kindergartners in Gina Johanning's class took to the playground to make life-sized number lines.

Using Marbles to Learn Velocity

Battle High School Math teacher, Justin Burns, took his students outside to calculate the velocity of a marble released at 45 degrees and test their equations.

CRE Peer Mentors make a "Significant Impact" on School Community

Each week, six Cedar Ridge Elementary School fourth-graders and six fifth-graders spend time serving as Peer Mentors for students in Adapted PE and Direct Academic and Behavior Instruction classes (DABI).

JMS Students Learn from MU Music Outreach Musicians

Jefferson Middle School Orchestra students recently performed with a cellist from the MU Music Outreach Program followed by a Question and Answer session.

WMS Students visit MACC

The West Middle School seventh and eighth-grade AVID students visited MACC on March 17.  

CPS Administrators Tour Fairview Elementary School's Nature Play Area

The superintendent and other members of the district’s central office administrative team recently visited Fairview Elementary School for an update on place-based learning at the school.

Celebrating Pi Day with Pie

West Boulevard Elementary School celebrated Pi Day on March 14 with a family open house that included math games and pizza pie.

RBHS Musicians Perform at Inaugural UMKC Conservatory Concert Festival

Rock Bridge High School's Windy Symphony musicians performed at the Inaugural UMKC Conservatory Concert Festival in the beautiful Folly Theatre in Kansas City.

Celebrating Math Week in CPS

Elementary students from across Columbia Public Schools participated in a Virtual Math Week from March 7-11.

CACC Students Participate in Public School Student Showcase at Missouri State Capitol

Columbia Area Career Center Civil Engineering students had an engaged audience as they explained their AR Topographical Map during the 2022 Public School Student Showcase at the Capitol Rotunda earlier this month.

Gentry Students Celebrate Read Across America with Costumes and a Book Tasting

To continue the year-wide reading focus goal, Gentry Middle School celebrated Read Across America Week with a variety of activities, including dress-up events,  pop-up bistro and more.

JWMS National History Day Projects

Sewing for Literacy

When Books N Bags co-leaders Beverly Borduin and Nancy Adrian approached Rock Bridge High School Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, Lisa Kurzejeski, about creating bags for the books, she immediately said yes and put her Sewing 1 and Sewing 2 students to work.

CPS World Language Center recently placed 2nd in Video Competition

Rock Bridge High School teacher Shawn Beatty's Japanese students and students attending the World Language Center recently placed second in the Kizuna Across Cultures Video competition. 

Celebrating Twosday with Fairview Kindergarteners

Fairview kindergarteners celebrated Twosday on 02/22/2022 with a fancy tea party. They practiced their best table manners and using quiet voices. Several students even practiced drinking with pinkies up. 

5th graders at Russell Test and Observe Chemical Changes

Russell Boulevard Elementary 5th grade teachers Kara Johnson and Josh Smith split their students into teams to explore how all matter is made up of small invisible particles too small to be seen and how materials can be identified by their properties. Then students tested their theories by combining substances and observing the reactions. 

Russell 4th Graders Learn About Energy Through Chain Reaction Machines

Russell Boulevard 4th grade teacher Hannah Hassemer guided her students through an energy unit that included building chain reaction machines.

Battle Buddies Celebrate the Holidays

Usually, the BHS students walk over to Battle Elementary to meet with their designated Battle Buddy, but this week the elementary students visited the high school.