The John Cooper School

Congratulations Cooper Dragon Swim & Dive Athletes! Morgan Robson and Diego Burgos won SPC South Zone! Swimmer Monica Ianeva, set a meet record in the 200 IM. GO DRAGONS!

Thank you Marc Brackett with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence for visiting our campus to observe how we are practicing wellness.

Bryce Weatherholt, Class of 2025 wants to leave you with this parting gift to thank you for your lesson on applying emotions in Mrs. Schiebel’s Digital Photography Class.

You left us all feeling INSPIRED.

Founded in 1988, The John Cooper School is a fully accredited, independent, PK-12 college preparatory day school located at One John Cooper Drive in The Woodlands, Texas. Admission applications are open for the 2023-24 school year! For more information and to schedule a tour, visit www.johncooper.org or call (281)367-0900.

Ms. Oswick captures a special moment! Mr. Wyllie reading poetry with his students in The Kiva.

Congratulations to our Cooper students for their amazing work in The SCI://TECH Exposition.

Ian Hou, 11th grader

Vivian Qin, 9th grader

Alyssa Kuang, 10th grader

Tim Lu, 11th grader

Congratulations to the 2023 Dragon Court!

Proud to be a RULER Mentor School | The John Cooper School

The John Cooper School is proud to be named a RULER Mentor School by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. We are excited to welcome all parents to join Dr. Marc Brackett, Founder of the Center and Author of Permission to Feel, to a moderated Q&A tonight (1/26/23) at The John Cooper School Ramirez Lecture Hall at 7 p.m.

Proud to be a RULER Mentor School | The John Cooper School With a mission to provide a challenging education in a caring environment, The John Cooper School is committed to wellness and well-being.

Seniors took a nostalgic trip to the Lower School today to join their kindergarteners for a little reading.

The John Cooper School entered three teams in the Sci://TECH Senior High Science Bowl sponsored by the Education for Tomorrow Alliance (EfTA) and Conroe ISD this past Friday. All three teams fared well in the competition, with Team 1 advancing to the finals and ultimately earning 2nd Place medals! Congratulations to all students who participated. Faculty sponsors are Cathy Mock and Charles Lowery.

Participating students include:

Team 1
Baig, Safee
Bhagchandani, Medhansh
Pakal, Aditya
Pakal, Nikita
Wu, Annabelle

Team 2
Dhamija, Finn
Hou, Ian
Lu, Tim
Nieuwveld, Hannah
Tian, Amy

Team 3
Bates, Aaron
Meixeiro, Balian
Rana, Adam
Winter, Gavin

Canstruction and CLAWES Club teaming up to raise awareness and drive participation in the Food Bank Canstruction project! Follow the QR code to get involved with helping fight food insecurity in Montgomery County!

Students in Ms. Mata’s class learn about adversity and emotional regulation through lessons on countries in the Caribbean and the devastation they face every year due to hurricanes & earthquakes.

“Yet these people seem like the happiest on Earth. Music and dance is how they cope with the hardships of life,” explains Mata.

During Wellness Week, students explore the origin of these rhythms & dances and apply emotional regulation strategies to step out of their comfort zone and do a dance presentation in front of their peers.

Mr. Yarbrough captures some great shots of the rock band performance during Pack the GPAC.

Puppies and pancakes! A nice way to round out Wellness Week.

Third grade students in Mrs Dietrich’s art class are learning cross-contour drawing. Students have been working on a drawing unit of 3-D forms (cube, cylinder, prisms, etc) with one point perspective and are now applying that knowledge in a realistic still life of fruit. Our practice day was a success - “I can see the 3D form of each fruit represented on the flat 2D paper…. Can you?”

Upper School's Wellness Week culminated today with a talent show which included music, comedy, dance and exercise...all good for the soul! Go Dragons!

Wellness Week continues with healthy breakfast!

Students spent some therapeutic time with some furry friends in Sra. Hill's classroom today! The organization is Pets With A Mission, which visits all sorts of places - schools, hospitals, nursing homes - anywhere people can benefit from canine stress relief!

Today's dogs were:
Dave (tiny elderly dachshund)
Zara (bearded collie - the kids like to braid her hair)
Molly (the melodramatic smiler)
Callie (nice calm German shepherd)

Go Dragons!

Dayna Altman with Active Minds delivered an engaging and encouraging presentation on mental health! Students stayed after to ask questions and share their insights about wellness in the classroom.

Active Minds, with whom Cooper formed a partnership six years ago, is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit corporation specializing in educational programs in adolescent mental health and wellness. The organization is considered the leading voice nationwide on adolescent and young adult mental health awareness and advocacy. It has chapters on more than 600 campuses and directly reaches close to 600,000 students each year through research-based awareness campaigns, events, advocacy, outreach, and more.

Photo credit: Blake Minor, Diego Estrada, Lynn Boeding, Jenny Glenn & Gillian Crane

Ms. Ott captures some great moments of learning as her second graders are introduced to coding with Ms. Navarra!

Several students spent the weekend honoring MLK Day in unique ways. Zuri Bryson, freshman, volunteered to assemble grocery distribution bags at Northwest Assistance Ministries, during the MLK Day of Service event hosted by Omicron Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Jackson Williams, junior, and Jaiden Briscoe, sophomore, volunteered with Jack & Jill of The Woodlands as ushers at the MLK Day Commemoration held at the Woodlands United Methodist Church.

Seniors Kendall Cooper and Mary Pierce share their perspective on the importance of honoring MLK.

Wellness Week kicked off with Physical Activity and Fitness! During lunch, our own Athletic Department ran games in the gym and on the Quad.

DoNut forget about a snack to keep your energy going!

Faculty handed out donuts during break in addition to the fruit and milk which is available daily for students for free and Active Minds leaders greeted students upon arriving to school!

At Cooper we honor MLK Day! All this week, and throughout the year, we celebrate diversity and inclusion, by sparking curiosity and encouraging conversations in our classrooms.

Wellness Week starts tomorrow morning at 6:30 a.m.! Join Dr. Popp for a Fun Run (Tuesday, 1/17/23).

6:30am Meet Dr. Popp & the Cross-Country coaches on the south end of the football field by the Track Shack. No pressure…Run at your own pace. Run 1 or 2 miles, your choice! Just come get active and start you day out right! You will be finished in time to hit the showers before school starts.

Photos from The John Cooper School's post

Photos from The John Cooper School's post

VARSITY BOYS BASKETBALL

1/9 vs The Village School • 58-45 W
1/13 vs St. Andrews* • 62-42 W
1/14 vs St. Stephen’s* • 58-45 W

Dragons are currently 3-0 in conference play!

The team had a great week, going 3-0. We started with a road win at The Village School, then carried that momentum into the weekend against conference foes St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s.

“I am proud of the boys’ effort and selflessness this week,” said Wilson.

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The John Cooper School students harvest fresh veggies they have grown in The Children's Garden and bring them to Chef Ryan in the Cooper kitchen to use in fresh school lunch recipes!

Liz Favors' second-grade science students walked through the halls of The John Cooper
School's Mitchell Lower School Thursday
morning, each holding a colorful plastic basket of freshly-picked greens from the school's
Children's Garden that filled the air with the smell of green onion and garlic.

They were on their way to the campus cafeteria, to deliver the garden bounty to Chef Ryan Wills, Director of Food Service, and Chef Nikki Purnell, sous chef at the school.

The students lined the baskets up neatly on one of the food prep tables in the school kitchen and then Wills carefully explained how the herbs and vegetables they just picked would be incorporated into that day's lunch for nearly 1,500 staff and students on the campus.

He showed them a Buffalo Cauliflower Salad the kitchen staff whipped up that would use a dressing made with green onions and herbs from the garden. The youngsters bubbled over with questions about uses for the produce like how would they use the turnips they had just picked and even how do they get all of the dirt off the vegetables so they can be a part of the school.

Read more in the Houston Chronicle story:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/John-Cooper-school-lunch-menu-vegetable-garden-17713939.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vbmVpZ2hib3Job29kL21vY28vbmV3cy9hcnRpY2xlL0pvaG4tQ29vcGVyLXNjaG9vbC1sdW5jaC1tZW51LXZlZ2V0YWJsZS1nYXJkZW4tMTc3MTM5MzkucGhw&time=MTY3MzcxNTQyOTQ5OQ==&rid=YzZkNmM0ZWItZjI3Zi00MDkxLThlNjctZDA1NzNlMDE1OWE2&sharecount=MQ==

Happy Friday! Make it a great day.

Photo credit: Ms. Crane

We love when alumni come back to visit! Thanks for stopping by, Blake Pitts ‘22. He is playing baseball at University of San Francisco! We encourage all alumni to stop by for a visit!

The John Cooper School is close to reaching the Canstruction Team’s goal. They’re asking for support to reach the finish line.

College Counseling Symposium

Juniors and their parents hear from leading experts in the field: the deans of admission from the University of Chicago, Rhodes College, Tufts University, and Santa Clara University.

Following the panel discussion, the deans will lead smaller breakout sessions aimed at helping each child navigate the college search and application process.

Thank you Cooper Fine Arts Council for the colorful new learning rugs in music class.

We are using them for so many functions in our curriculum!

Thanks to our wonderful Dragon Booster Club for an awesome Middle School Spirit Night!

Photo credit: DBC President Ellsworth

John Cooper School is honored to partner with The Montgomery County Food Bank and grateful to Kristine Marlow, Senior leader Vijay Davis, and Dr. Stephen Popp for helping us kickoff our annual Canstruction engineering event that raises awareness and provides meals for those facing food insecurity.

For Cooper Athletics Scores and News visit: https://www.johncooper.org/Athletics/News--Scores

Congratulations to TPSMEA High School Region Band & TPSMEA MS Honor Band Members.

Ms. Musa’s web design students got a special treat! Guest speaker Andrew Schapiro, designer for the Airbnb logo, joined them for some interactive and experiential learning beyond the classroom!