After years of dedication, hard work, and persistence, they have finally made it. Starting this June, Upper Campus Academic Support Specialist Tianjia Jin and Upper Campus Mandarin teachers Heidi...

   Though biology teacher Monica Ventrice and Head of Science Department Kim Hudson collaborate with one another as Pinewood faculty, their journeys were very different, revealing that career paths are...

 As Lizzo once said, “All the rumors are true.” The three Wells at Pinewood are related. English teachers David Wells and Patricia Welze and Director of Communications Katy Wells are all connected...

   On Monday, Pinewood foreign language teachers suddenly stopped speaking in English, citing the difficulty of endless translation in an email sent to parents.    French, Mandarin and Spanish students...

   Many students have had the awkward experience of accidentally calling a teacher “Mom” instead of “Ms.” in class. But for some students, both titles hold true. For eighth graders Nerea Amezcua...

From patiently guiding us through phonics sets in kindergarten to explaining complicated formulas, and from mediating arguments between stubborn eight-year-olds to checking in with  stressed-out high...

    A fuzzy, greenish brown, bulbous organism is sending out warning signals via its noxious stench that wafts through the halls of Pinewood. In the name of science, biology teacher Kim Hudson is harboring...

Even the most talented conspiracy theorists have not been able to understand the root of this transformation of teachers becoming Shakespeare characters, but they speculate that it has something to do...

Is Los Altos Hills the new Albuquerque? Nearly 14 years after notorious drug kingpin Walter Hartwell White, known as Heisenberg, was caught after terrorizing the Southwest with his meth empire, another...

Beloved history teacher Sam Jezak and Assistant Head of Upper Campus Haley Hemm recently tied the knot in Santa Cruz, California. Originally planning a small, intimate wedding ceremony in a picturesque...