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By. Andy Shaw, Dean of Curriculum and Innovation “Why should I have to summarize the book? The teacher has already read it!” My mother still chides me for making this remark, which I uttered sometime during my elementary school years, in response to a book report assignment. Every student in the class read the same …
It's one thing to read a Greek tragedy to learn what defines the genre but it's a completely different thing to understand it from the inside out. This week, Bay's Drama 1B students were asked by teacher Mary Ann Rodgers (herself a professional actor and theater director) to collaboratively adapt the form. Each student had …
When one graduates from college, the options of what to do next are seemingly endless. Some apply to jobs, some apply to graduate school, and others travel the world like Bay alum, Cole Stevens ‘12. Cole stopped by Bay recently to say “hello” to some of his favorite staffulty members and share art pieces of …
Bay 9th-graders jumped into the school year learning by doing. Conceptual Physics--a required course for all 9th graders-- begins with an introduction to computer programming and robotics. Students started the term writing programs to make a virtual turtle trace patterns on their computer screen. At first, they did this a using drag-and-drop programming language …
By Andy Shaw, Dean of Curriculum and Innovation "We are good stewards of time," was one of Father Malcolm Manson's most oft-used sentences in those early days of The Bay School. Our founding head of school used this sentence to mean that we are intentional about how we use time - the most valuable currency …
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