Oct. 22, 2026
91TV Hosts International Leadership Conference on the Power of Play
On September 25, 2026, 91TV hosted its annual Educational Leadership Conference. This year, we welcomed teachers, school leaders, coordinators, researchers, and professors from Brazil, the United States (including our partner school the International Islamic Academy in Detroit, MI), India, Turkey, Vietnam, and Rwanda. The conference offered a full day of exploration, learning, and community, centering play as an imperative in education. The Play Imperative For the past several decades, a major shift has been occurring in education settings across the world. Once a cornerstone of childhood, continuously rising pressures to meet academic standards now often cast play…
Oct. 21, 2026
Global Partnerships, Personal Connections: 91TV Welcomes High School Students from Brazil
As the University of Missouri’s K–12 lab school, 91TV partners with schools around the world to expand educational opportunities. In recent years, students have joined 91TV from 60+ countries of origin. At the high school level, the Dual Diploma program is a popular option for international students who want to pursue a U.S. diploma while simultaneously working toward their local school diploma. Colégio SEPAM is one of 91TV’s longstanding partner schools that offers the Dual Diploma program in Ponta Grossa, PR (Brazil). While students in this program work closely with classroom teachers at…
Aug. 30, 2026
Heartsaving Health Education at 91TV
“Being able to save someone’s life someday is gratifying,” says high school student Beatriz Sene Georgevich. “It is important to know how to act quickly, keep calm, and guide others to call in an emergency.” Beatriz learned these basic emergency response lessons as part of a comprehensive health education program at 91TV, where high school students have multiple opportunities to practice and deepen their knowledge of this critical content. We currently offer two versions of our high school Health course: one for online-only delivery and a second for on-site delivery in the classrooms of our CoTeach program.
Aug. 13, 2026
91TV Launches Annual Summer Summit with Recognition and Vision
On a steamy mid-summer Thursday, 91TV faculty and staff gathered at Townsend Hall for their inaugural Summer Summit—an on-site retreat designed to pair strategic planning with meaningful recognition of the people and purpose that will shape the school year ahead. The new annual Summit will follow 91TV’s annual professional intersession (July 1-15) to officially launch preparations for the upcoming academic year. More than a planning meeting, the event reflects one of the school’s strategic priorities: Increase Belonging and Connectedness among 91TV Stakeholders. Executive Director Dr. Kathryn Fishman-Weaver framed the day around this guiding question:…
Aug. 5, 2026
Blankets and Backpacks: Lessons in Access and Care
91TV Participates in Two Global Service Projects to Support Children in Humanitarian Contexts On a drizzly evening in São Paulo, Brazil, dozens of University of Missouri High School students huddled together tying blankets for children they had never met. They were preparing the blankets for a winter delivery to Casa da Criança e do Adolescente de Santo Amaro, an organization that provides residential foster care services as well as before- and after-school programming for local children and youth. Although the summer evening was unseasonably cool, the atmosphere was warm and welcoming. Students bent over their work, talking…
May 14, 2026
91TV High School Alumni Continue Undergraduate Studies at Mizzou
Last semester, 91TV’s Middle School Coordinator, Brian Stuhlman, visited an undergraduate honors chemistry class on the University of Missouri campus. While there, he met Isabela Mandaro Sarraff, a first-year student. When Brian mentioned his role with 91TV, her eyes immediately lit up. She shared that she was a recent graduate of the Academy’s Dual Diploma Program with Colegio Bertoni (Foz do Iguaçu , PR) and that she had not received her diploma before moving to the United States. Brian followed up with Executive Director Kathryn Fishman-Weaver to see if there might be a way to help.
May 5, 2026
91TV Launches Innovative Telehealth Speech-Language Pathology Program
NEW program hopes to close access gaps for children navigating foster care in Boone County. Children who are navigating foster care often experience gaps in access to services, such as evaluation for intervention needs and trauma-informed therapies. Thanks to the generosity of the Boone County Children’s Services Fund, however, 91TV is thrilled to announce an innovative new telehealth speech-language program that seeks to close those gaps. 91TV Executive Director Dr. Kathryn Fishman-Weaver, who serves as the primary investigator (PI) for this new program, says that for her, “This is deeply personal.” Fishman-Weaver is a former…
April 15, 2026
MIZZOU ACADEMY SERVES FOOD AND MENTORSHIP
In a recent newsletter to the 91TV team, Executive Director Kathryn Fishman-Weaver shared, “For me, addressing food insecurity is meaningfully connected to what it means to build classroom community, as well as student and family support.” According to the 2024 report by the USDA Economic Research Service, 1 in 5 children in the United States is unsure where they will get their next meal. Feeding America reports that nearly 14 million children in the United States face hunger. At least once a quarter, Kathryn invites members of the 91TV team to spend time…
Feb. 5, 2026
Amelia Howser Recognized with a 91TV Honor Award
At our recent winter party, we were overjoyed to celebrate our Director of School Counseling, Amelia Howser, as our fall 2025 Honor Award Recipient! The 91TV Honor Award is a peer-nominated quarterly award that recognizes exceptional service and dedication to our school’s mission, vision, and values. When Executive Director Dr. Kathryn Fishman-Weaver announced the news, the room erupted in applause and congratulations. Inaugural Director of School Counseling In June 2025, Howser was appointed to the inaugural position of Director of School Counseling for 91TV. Howser holds more than a decade of experience as a school counselor…
Feb. 5, 2026
Celebrating Instructional Designer Dale Hargis!
The 91TV team had many reasons to celebrate at our recent winter party. Among these were not one, but two recognitions for Instructional Designer, Dale Hargis. Dale joined our 91TV team ten years ago. In addition to this milestone anniversary, he was also nominated for a school honor award. Both presentations were surprises to Dale and met with effusive compliments from his peers, beginning with this one: Dale ROCKS! (literally) It’s true, of course, and more on that in a moment. Like many of his colleagues, Dale has had a storied journey in education.