Mrs. Eleanor Henry, the music teacher at Stephen Foster School 67, says she loves what she does. And she must. She’s been doing it for 47 years, 38 of them at Stephen Foster!

A new school year brings a lot of excitement; and our English as a New Language (ENL) program has several new offerings for our multilingual families. The ENL department organized a welcoming back-to-school initiative for a group of refugee families at a pair of our west side schools.

Broad Ripple Magnet High School for the Arts and Humanities student Ruby Smith is a national finalist for the 2014 Maytag Dependable Leader Award.

Students at SUPER School 19 are enjoying a healthy new option at lunch this year. A fresh salad bar was unveiled this week!

Indianapolis Public Schools, STEMNASIUM LEARNING Academy and K12 Mobility will team up for Code for the USA at Arsenal Technical High School on Saturday, August 30, 2014.

Our friends at the Indiana Fever organized a fun event to help emphasize the importance of reading to Indianapolis Public Schools students. The Fever teamed up with the Indianapolis Public Library to host a special reading event for the 3rd grade classes from Center for Inquiry School 2.

Students in the JROTC program at John Marshall Community High School volunteered for the second year in a row at the Indianapolis Colts Back to Football 5K on Saturday, August 23.

If your students ever feel like school is seriously cutting into their play time, then Lew Wallace School 107 may just have the program for them. Lew Wallace is working this year with LEGO Education StoryStarter to motivate students while developing them into stronger writers and readers.

Students in the Broad Ripple Magnet High School Theatre program spent Friday, August 22, working together during their Team Building Day.

Looking for a way to help our students? ReadUP is a program that matches local volunteers with students to build and maintain grade-level literacy.