The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school where innovative teaching and learning is grounded in mindfulness, equity, and community.
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 …
This week at Morning Meeting, one of Bay's founding staffulty members, Mr. Broudy (Humanities and Electronic Music), discusses his consideration of two precepts... We value the importance of boundaries; we take only what is given We value the earth our home; we don't pollute, we recycle, and we are careful conscious consumers. ...as he makes …
By Andy Shaw, Dean of Curriculum and Innovation It's one of the oldest practices in the world: learning by experience. Setting out to master a skill or concept by experiencing it or doing it “in the wild” was the dominant learning paradigm for thousands of years. In these early years of the 21st century - …
Now that summer is here, many of our staffulty members take a break from teaching to explore their other passions for a couple of months. Often times it's these other passions and experiences that make our staffulty so talented and excited about what they teach! Colin Williams, a humanities teacher and Bay's music teacher, is off …
In this intersession course, students are learning the art of filmmaking through live action and animation. They get to develop the story and choose which style of film they wish to create. Yesterday, they shot the scenes from the script they created on location in Bolinas. During the shoot, actors got firsthand experience with acting …
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