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Shared below are remarks delivered to students at Bay's Morning Meeting by Head of School Luke Felker after the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand March 15, 2019. Good morning, Bay community. I was preparing a very different, light-hearted talk for Morning Meeting when I saw the news of the massacre in New Zealand. This …
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From teaching during lunch to her coursework and Senior Signature Project, Bay student Gabriella ’19 is deeply invested in the political arena. We sat down to learn more about her love of all things politics. How did you become so passionate about politics?My parents, especially my dad, are really into politics and they did a …
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Bay student Justin '20 shares his path from middle school and how engineering courses at Bay have helped him frame his learning and life. Tell us about your transition into Bay from Del Mar Middle School.I went to Del Mar in Marin. Though it was a slightly bigger public middle school, it was a smooth …
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This year, Bay launched Schedule 2.0. This bold restructure of our high school schedule deepens student learning by giving students five rather than six classes per semester and adding two Immersive terms, three-week periods in which students take one course every day all day, earning a semester’s worth of transferable course credit. This new schedule …
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This week, tenth grade students hosted Research in the Community Night at Bay, delivering individual 10-minute presentations on a wide variety of research topics from their semester-long course. With parents circulating throughout the building to watch some of the more than 50 presentations, each student speaker addressed salient issues regarding public health, the environment, civil …
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