![Michael Najar, Palo Alto High School Visual and Performing Arts teacher, plays an electric bass guitar in the new "music lab," a dedicated music creation room on the second floor of the Media Arts Center. According to Najar, the new room is the beginning of his efforts to change the audio and music production courses to move away from digital-only learning. "I'm talking to my colleagues here in the building [Media Arts Center] to see if we can start finding a balance of making more stuff hands-on, in terms of music craft."](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_4615-1200x800.jpg)
Audio Music Production students at Palo Alto High School are playing with an expanded range of musical tools and physical senses following...
The Palo Alto High School library is trying new methods of incentivizing students to return overdue books, revealing that there is no longer...
Ava Knapp, co-editor-in-chief of The Paly Voice, will move onto national judging after being named the Journalism Education Association's...
Concrete vs. turf. Gravel vs. clay. You might think these things might not make a difference, but after wrong materials were used...
![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-1200x900.png)
Palo Alto High School staff members are cautiously optimistic about the future of the Palo Alto Unified School District following Superintendent...
In a special school board meeting this morning, the Palo Alto Unified School District has reached an agreement to ‘separate’ from Superintendent...
Editors' Note: Resources for any person who is feeling depressed, troubled or suicidal are listed at the bottom of this article. Students...
Physical education teacher and junior varsity football coach Jason Fung returned to teaching at school on Feb. 5, after three months of administrative...
![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)
The series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” produced by showrunner Ira Parker and based on George R.R. Martin's series of best-selling books,...
Sleep. A necessity, but for many students, a luxury. Generally 8-10 hours of sleep is recommended nightly, but some students fail to get enough...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted the 98th Academy Awards (informally known as the Oscars) this Sunday. Here is The Paly...
“You keep dancing with the devil, one day, he’s going to follow you home.” Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners," a Southern gothic horror...
“And thus the heart will break yet brokenly live on.” —Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage As a Royal Danish Navy ship drifts...
A limited-edition '90s-style branded jacket, obnoxious orange ping pong balls and a remix with U.K.-based rapper EsDeeKid. These are only a few...
