The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school where innovative teaching and learning is grounded in mindfulness, equity, and community.
What’s the purpose of the SLC and how does it serve the school? SLC stands for the School Life Committee. It is the closest thing Bay has to student government. We try to bridge the gap between students and administration, hence the name School Life Committee rather than Student Life Committee. The SLC has two …
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What is it like to be a leader at Bay? I think one of the defining features of Bay is that it's a very student-led community. That's seen at Morning Meeting, clubs and Intersessions. They're all student-led, and I'm proud to say that, because we have a supportive community that's willing to let students take that …
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Rebecca ’14 recently spoke at Morning Meeting about her passion, which also happens to be an issue of particular local importance. First, Rebecca introduced Midge Wilson of the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center, which serves the Tenderloin community by focusing “entirely on the needs and issues of low-income families, children and women in this …
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On a recent morning in the Great Room, a group of college students who call themselves The Purple Crayon of Yale came to perform for students, staff and faculty. The name of this improvisational comedy group comes from the children’s story, “Harold and the Purple Crayon.” In the story, whatever Harold draws comes to life, …
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Mix some hot glue, uncooked spaghetti and a unit on truss bridges in Engineering Design 1 and what do you get? Unimposing little pasta bridges, which, despite their unlikely composition, prove deceptively strong. In fact, the structure that sophomore Jared, junior Ben and senior Alec produced stood tall under 11,488 grams -- that's 46 times …
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