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Recently, humanities teacher Lori Cohen presented at the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) Conference in Santa Clara. Her session, called “Creative Nonfiction and the Common Core,” focused on “how to meet the Common Core State Standards through asking students to write feature stories.” During this presentation, participants learned “strategies and approaches that allow …
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“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance...” - Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 Head of School Tim Johnson spoke at Friday’s Morning …
Spanish teacher Mary Ann Rodgers spoke at Morning Meeting about Day of the Dead and how she has come to experience it personally and as part of The Bay School community. “I hope we are beginning to see the difference between Halloween, where the images are all to create fear (even though little goblins are …
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Arts and humanities teacher Colin Williams shares about his history students’ mock debates. What looked like a room full of students last week was in fact a room full of delegates to the New York ratifying convention in Poughkeepsie. The men of New York elected these delegates to decide whether to ratify the new Constitution. At each …
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One of our very own, humanities teacher Ellen Greenblatt, recently served as a consultant presenter for the Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA) at their 2012 Conference in Johannesburg, which drew 700 delegates from all over Africa. There she represented The Bay School in presenting three separate workshops: Writing to Learn: A School-wide Initiative; …
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