The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school where innovative teaching and learning is grounded in mindfulness, equity, and community.
By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean “‘Mindful approach to learning?’ So what does that mean? You meditate during class?” By now, I’m used to this question, which comes most often from prospective parents or visitors who have closely read our school’s mission. It’s a good question, and one I love to answer. Yes, we meditate at …
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By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean The Bay School’s mission tasks us with a focus on innovative thinking, an oft-used buzzword these days, although we’ve had this focus since our inception. A key component of our approach to innovation has to do with our cultural stance towards getting things wrong. Much has been written about failure …
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By Lise Shelton, Assistant Head of School Central to who we are as a school are the Bay School Precepts. Guidelines rather than rules, they ask us to be the community we want to be: caring, intentional, aware. The aspirational quality of the precepts suggests that they are not easily realized. They require work and …
By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean As is the case for many during this time of year, I find myself reflecting during the holiday season on the world we live in, the challenges we face as humans, and the question of what must be done to make our world a better place. I’m certainly not the …
By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean As a school whose mission explicitly calls for us to help “students unlock their individual and collective potential,” we are always working to weave together the individual and the collective to produce the academic rigor we seek in preparing students for the coming century. As the first trimester came to …
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