Winter 2023

I believe participation in sports at EMS provides a sacred space for students to explore their gifts and step outside their comfort zone. Our student-athletes make lifelong friendships, create impactful memories, and learn life skills within a caring team environment. With the support and mentoring of coaches, they commit to being part of something greater…

Performing Arts Performing music, leading worship, and staging a theater production all support emotional and social well being for both participants and audience members. Theater performances in the fall included the K-5 annual dessert theater and the high school staging of Our Town. EMHS students also staged the musical Godspell Feb. 10-12 with a pit…

Each of our 380+ students are known by at least one EMS professional counselor, as well as their principal, and teachers. Counselors have open doors and are visible throughout the day. Q: What is the primary way you interact with students? Jodi: I meet with each class group at least once a year to talk…

I believe there’s never been a more difficult time to be a teen. Societal polarization. A technological revolution. Covid. Anxiety and depression in record numbers. New addictive substances in slick packaging targeting teens. It’s a high school experience so different from generations past, that the adults in teens’ lives cannot fully relate. For these reasons,…