Highlands School

Nobody's Squeakier Than a Guinea Pig

This word-play poem by the 2nd grade was inspired by two books by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, a children’s book author that visited our school last February.

View the interactive online book

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (WBRC-TV MyFoxAL.com, 09/11/2007) -- Highlands School in Mountain Brook believes students preparing for the future had better speak Chinese so the private school starts training the children in daycare. View Story...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC-TV, 12/14/2006) -- A school science teacher at Highlands School has come up with a creative way to teach 4th graders how mountains form: graham crackers, peanut butter and jelly. Ashley Kizer says he's tried to teach children for years about oceanic and continental plates colliding, with much difficulty.  He says once he added the crackers, peanut butter and jelly to the lesson, the job became much easier.

Fox6 highlights Highlands' Mr. Kizer and how he uses food to teach mountain formations - watch Sarah Verser's video report in her weekly "What's Right With Our Schools" segment. View story...