The award-winning Shaker Heights High School student news organization

The Shakerite
The award-winning Shaker Heights High School student news organization

The Shakerite
The award-winning Shaker Heights High School student news organization

The Shakerite
Isabel Siegel

Isabel Siegel, Editor in Chief

Isabel Siegel (‘26) is in her fourth year with The Shakerite and is currently the Editor in Chief. Last year, she wrote about AI in academics, safety policies and cuts to school programs. When she’s not in the newsroom, she can be found onstage in Shaker’s theatre productions, writing fiction, poetry, and plays, or spending time with her two cats.

All content by Isabel Siegel
Following a first day of school tradition, seniors decorate the windows of the second floor "senior hallway" before classes begin.

Back to One First Day

Isabel Siegel, Editor in chief
August 21, 2025
GSA members write letters to Ohio representatives during their May 28 meeting. GSA meetings typically consist of fun activities, such as playing games, as well as educational activities, such as reading LGBTQ+ literature or learning about LGBTQ+ history, according to co-adviser Nick LaPete.

GSA Protests “Given Name Act”

Isabel Siegel, Editor in chief
June 8, 2025
Latin teacher Joseph Barresi instructs an eighth-period class May 22 at the high school.

District Makes Cuts to Latin Program

Daniel Carroll, Vijaya Sadler and Isabel Siegel
May 22, 2025
Students in ELL class and their teacher, D. Michael Wells, meet in Room 231 Nov. 13, 2024. Thirteen high school students are enrolled in the class. Wells, in his ninth year at Shaker, also teaches ELL students at Lomond Elementary School. The district is home to ELL students from more than 35 countries. At least 11 new students who are eligible for ELL instruction have enrolled for next year, when only two ELL teachers will remain on staff.

District Cuts 60% of English Language Learner Positions

Isabel Siegel, Managing Editor
March 21, 2025
This image was generated by Open AI's ChatGPT using the text of this story as the prompt. When asked what the object atop the book in the bottom-right corner was, Shakerite editors identified it as either a printer, a typewriter or a "really messed up book."

Is AI OK? It Depends on Whom You Ask

Isabel Siegel and Daniel Carroll
March 20, 2025
Isaiah Wyatt displays a shirt that expresses his belief in unity during a Jan. 8 assembly in the large auditorium.

Wyatt Wants SHHS to Work Together

Isabel Siegel, Managing Editor
January 31, 2025
Principal Eric Juli's daily message to students about taking charge of their fate greeted the high school community this morning on the front lawn, courtesy of the high school PTO.

“I Think It Takes a Big Person to Do That”

Isabel Siegel and Olivia Cavallo
November 21, 2024
Odd and even day schedules are identical. Students will eat lunch during three lunch periods as they did last year.

A Permanent Schedule

Daniel Carroll and Isabel Siegel
September 3, 2024
Yondr pouches in a tote bag await distribution to teachers in Dean of Students Greg Zannelli's office Aug. 20. Teachers gathered pouches for their Crew students and handed them out yesterday and today.

Locked Away for the Day

Daniel Carroll and Isabel Siegel
August 22, 2024
Lights frame artwork in Room 216, helping to create a peaceful mood in the zen, or mindfulness room created by guidance counselor Catherine Szendrey.

Szendrey Makes Space for Mindfulness at School

Isabel Siegel, Managing Editor
June 4, 2024
Dr. Felecia Bell Evans, formerly director of school leadership and now assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, addresses panel members, students, teachers and parents during the May 14 meeting in the upper cafeteria. Photo by Daniel Carroll.

Community Voice Support for Phone Policy

Isabel Siegel and Daniel Carroll
May 29, 2024
Assistant Director of Communications Kristen Miller speaks with two residents who attended a May 14 public meeting in the upper cafeteria. The district held the meeting to gather feedback about its developing cell phone policy. The attendees are examining a Yondr pouch, which would be the means for securing phones during school hours next year if the Board of Education adopts the policy.

[Photo] Next Year, No Phones

Vijaya Sadler, Journalism II Reporter
May 15, 2024
Metal detectors stand at the entrance of Maple Heights High School. Akron Public Schools purchased metal detectors and X-ray machines in 2022. Garfield Heights City Schools use detectors at school entrances and athletic events.

Are Metal Detectors the Next Step?

Isabel Siegel, Copy Editor
April 15, 2024
Cassie Lyles, a sophomore, performs "What Was I Made For?" during the 3B Sankofa student preview in the large auditorium Feb. 23, 2024. The audience responded to the gentle song by swaying along with their phone flashlights, the modern version holding aloft a lighter in emotional solidarity with the performer.

Sankofa Changes the Narrative

Josh Levin, Isabel Siegel and Will Stewart
February 23, 2024
Schedule committee members Emily Shrestha, Erin Mauch and Nalin Needham, all of whom are English teachers, meet in the English Department office Dec. 7.

Tackling the Bell Schedule, Again

Will Stewart and Isabel Siegel
February 12, 2024
Parents created a petition today demanding heightened security at the high school. More than 136 people signed it within two hours. The petition calls for restrictions on cell phone use and the presence of uniformed police officers at school, among other demands.

District Plans to Enhance Security Emerge From Remote Learning Day

Isabel Siegel and Eliot Call
January 13, 2024
So Far, Crew Program Fails to Inspire Connections

So Far, Crew Program Fails to Inspire Connections

Isabel Siegel, Journalism II Reporter
April 17, 2023
map-testing

[Photo] New Staff at Shaker

Journalism I Reporters
October 11, 2022
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