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Written by Lori Cohen, Dean of Faculty The Bay School is about to undergo a significant schedule shift next year, and while the core elements of our academic program will remain intact (80-minute blocks on a rotating schedule, project-based and experiential learning, creative approaches to problem-solving), some portions will serve to augment our approaches to …
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Written by Andy Shaw, Dean of Curriculum and Innovation “Interdisciplinary”: it’s one of those funny buzzwords that schools love to use, describing with many syllables something that intuitively, most of us know ought to be integral to an education. Technically the word means, of course, to integrate two academic disciplines, but as in so many …
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She led the students in a warm-up, flapping their arms in big circles to the front then big circles to the back. Stretching up and over to the left, then to the right. Instructing the students to take a deep breath in, hold it, and release. Again. Over and over she had them doing exercises …
Students in Painting 1B are exploring COLOR! Looking at artists like Arturo Herrera, Clyfford Still, Ellsworth Kelly, and Mary Heilmann, the young artists are recognizing color can be charged and complex. Presently they are making “Playscapes”, generating hand-colored papers and exploring all the different ways color can be applied to a surface. Each student is …
Allowing students to take responsibility for and voice their opinions on the day-to-day operations of the school has been and always will be the Bay way. It's an important part of creating an authentic experience for each student, allowing them to take ownership in the school community and make a difference where they see fit. …
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