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  • Meet Dr. Daly- Payton’s new Spanish teacher

    By Janiya Williams, Contributor As Payton welcomes the class of 2026 into the building for the first time, it also welcomes a new cohort of teachers. This year, there are 22 new staff members joining the WPCP community! I met with Dr. Daly, a new Spanish teacher at Payton to hear her story.  Paw Print: Read more

  • Meet Ms. Bush- Payton’s new Diverse Learners English Teacher

    By Madeleine Spenbauer, Contributor As Payton welcomes the class of 2026 into the building for the first time, it also welcomes a new cohort of teachers. This year, there are 22 new staff members joining the WPCP community! I met with Ms. Bush, a new English teacher at Payton to hear her story.  Paw Print: Read more

  • Meet Mr. Rodriguez- Payton’s new history teacher

    By Nabiha Charolia, Contributor As Payton welcomes the class of 2026 into the building for the first time, it also welcomes a new cohort of teachers. This year, there are 22 new staff members joining the WPCP community! I met with Mr. Rodriguez, a new history teacher at Payton to hear his story.  Paw Print: Read more

  • Meet Mr. Murphy- Payton’s new science co-teacher

    By Sanaa Taqvi, Staff Writer As Payton welcomes the class of 2026 into the building for the first time, it also welcomes a new cohort of teachers. This year, there are 22 new staff members joining the WPCP community! I met with Mr. Murphy, a new science teacher at Payton to hear his story.  Paw Read more

  • Meet Mr. Barnes- Payton’s new math and computer science teacher

    By Olivia Sampson, Community and Culture Editor As Payton welcomes the class of 2026 into the building for the first time, it also welcomes a new cohort of teachers. This year, there are 22 new staff members joining the WPCP community! I met with Mr. Barnes, a new computer science teacher at Payton to hear Read more

  • A Grizzlies Guide to Meditation

    By Lily Suskind, Contributor Advanced Placement tests, finals, college decisions. That list is only a start of stressful points over the final quarter of this year. Want to get ahead for what next year has in store and minimize anxiety? Try meditation! Meditation: the act of gaining awareness and perspective through mindfulness. It may seem Read more

  • Student and Teacher Predictions for the Next School Year- What to Hopefully Expect

    Ella Schaffer, Staff Writer The first fully in-person school year in several years, the 2021-2022 school year, has been quite unexpected. Within the 176 days of school this year, CPS students experienced a strike, the lifting of the mask mandate, changes to the admissions process for selective enrollment high schools, and more. Additionally, Payton students Read more

  • CPS’s kosher meals: a triumph in religious freedom and flavor

    By: Aaron Faier, Editor Requesting a Kosher Meal In January 2022, I was able to have a school lunch in high school for the first time. As someone who keeps kosher, I always looked longingly at the school pizza my friends were eating, but I could never eat it with them (admittedly though, some meals Read more

  • Class of 2022: A Rewind

    By Nora Sun, Tech Editor After a temperamental spring, it seems like summer has finally arrived in Chicago. Alongside the new construction projects on Wells Street and the end of AP exams comes the graduation of another class of Payton students. As their days at Payton are rapidly winding down, seniors have conveyed varying sentiments Read more

  • AP Superstitions: How did Payton students give themselves good luck for tests?

    By: Anna Calkins, Staff Writer Grizzlies- you did it! The two weeks of AP testing were not easy, and weighed heavily on everyone’s shoulders. Everybody has their own ways of coping with stress, varying from deep breathing techniques to dance parties to shake it off. To address test anxiety specifically, superstitions provide significant comfort and Read more

  • Fear escalates as violence continues to shake Chicago 

    By Vivian Kaleta, Copy Editor On May 14, 2022 around 7:30 PM, Seandell Holliday, a 16-year-old student at Gary Comer High School was shot and killed while standing near ‘The Bean’. Moments prior to Holliday’s murder, a crowd flooded Millenium Park after an argument broke out.  In response, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a curfew requiring Read more

  • Paw Print game review – Need for Speed: Most Wanted

    By Cameron Smith, Staff Writer About Need for Speed: Most Wanted Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an open-world racing game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. This game is a pick up of another Need for Speed game of the same name that was first released in 2005. This game was Read more

  • Payton journalists win 7 first place awards at the 2022 IJEA State Journalism Awards

    By Bridget Galibois, Copy Editor The third floor atrium at Payton, as seen on September 21, 2021. This May, shortly after the Paw Print won awards at the 2022 City Journalism Awards, the Paw Print received further recognition at the IJEA State Journalism Awards. Payton journalists won seven first place awards at the competition, including Read more

  • Review: Harry Styles’ new album, Harry’s House

    By Anna Calkins, Staff Writer Today, May 20, Harry Styles released his latest album, Harry’s House. This highly-anticipated album is Harry’s most recent since Fine Lines from Dec. 2019. Styles’s album Fine Line was wildly popular from the day of its release, and on March 23 his loyal fans were delighted to find out another Read more

  • Sudoku- Hard

    By Alexis Park, Copy Editor Answers Below Read more

  • What type of Swiftie are you?

    By Alexis Park, Copy Editor After choosing your answers to each question, add up the points next to each answer choice to tabulate your final score. Then compare it with the score categories below. Mostly (1): Shady Swiftie You downloaded Taylor Swift’s entire discography illegally (DO NOT DO THIS!) because you are either a hardcore Read more