On March 13, 2024 I received a text message from Gabe Seir, who graduated from Greenhills in 2020 and is a current senior at...
In our history and social science classes, we don’t want students to just understand what happened in the past, but to learn from that history, to consider...
Greenhills science teacher Brandon Groff recently received his Michigan Conservation Stewards Program certification through Michigan State University...
By Mark Randolph, English Teacher and Shakespeare on Love Senior Seminar trip organizer Since 2005, with only a couple of...
By Jenna Goldenberg, Director of Teaching and Learning All Greenhills seniors enroll in senior seminars that engage them in the intensive study of special...
By Alex Monte-Sano, Greenhills teacher and Middle School 3D Printing Club advisor A teacher’s greatest joy is to have students who are intrinsically...
By Bruce Zellers, History Teacher and Alumni Office Liaison The Greenhills community contains a particularly rich vein of potential guest speakers for our...
By Susan Beamish, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Chair and Teacher Based on the research and practices...
This week in 11th grade English, students worked on an activity called “Mapping Desire” in the novel Passing by Nella Larsen. The story, which is set in...
In the summer of 2005, I was fortunate enough to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer course entitled Shakespeare in Production....
On the third Wednesday of the school year, we assembled the class of 2022 in the Library Courtyard. Each senior was holding a sign, not unlike a limousine...
I had gotten comfortable with the expectation that I would finish my Greenhills career as a teacher of American History. My tenure here began in 1983 with...
Times of crisis can bring out the best of humanity. Although the scope of this pandemic is uncertain, one constant has been the overwhelming outpouring of...
According to Hamlet the “play’s the thing.” He couldn’t be more firm in his conviction that the actual performance of a text has the power to clarify...
Language and culture are inextricably linked. In our languages classes at Greenhills, we take advantage of all of the ways that each of our languages is...
For seven days in mid March, 44 fearless students and faculty members participated in the second annual Social Media Blackout Week Challenge sponsored by the...
Capitalizing on an MSU grant to engage students in meaningful conversations about sustainability and climate change Greenhills faculty, R. Charles Dershimer...
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor even a false fire alarm, could dampen the enthusiasm of...
“Go big to be transformational.” This was Deborah Parizek’s encouragement to...
Chinese shadow puppetry is one of the most ancient arts using light and shadow, which has over two thousand years of history. It is acted by colorful...
For the past eight years Spanish students at Greenhills have been actively making connections with the Latino communities in the Ypsilanti/Detroit areas. The...
It’s been such a pleasure to work with our upper school FIRST Robotics team this year that we wanted to publicly congratulate them for their outstanding...
China’s culture around noodles has a long history. In China, noodle dishes are a staple for birthdays and Chinese New Year because they...
After having engaged a variety of ethical approaches and having confronted the difficult question of how ethics relates to literature and its study, the...
More and more research tells us that reading for pleasure is an important activity. It has...
A recent GPO joint parent forum provided everyone attending the chance to experience how the Greenhills’ FIRST robotics teams helps...
After parent-teacher conferences concluded, we loaded vehicles with adventurous students and headed north to Eastern Michigan University’s...
