The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school where innovative teaching and learning is grounded in mindfulness, equity, and community.
It's Intersession week here at The Bay School of San Francisco and our students are out of the classroom for five full days of experiential learning, developing new skills and passions that they will be able to take with them for the rest of their lives! We will keep you up to date with …
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At Bay, we ask students to use their voices to make positive changes within their communities. Many of our academic courses—such as Research in the Community, Climate Change, Artist as Activist to name a few—and projects within classes explicitly ask students to use what they have learned to develop awareness, change behaviors, or even change …
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When a parent asks their children they learned in school that day, it is not common that the response is, “We are working to discover a new planet.” What?!? That is exactly what the students in science teacher David Friedlander-Holm’s Astronomy and Stellar Astrophysics class are doing each day with the resources that have been …
By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean “‘Mindful approach to learning?’ So what does that mean? You meditate during class?” By now, I’m used to this question, which comes most often from prospective parents or visitors who have closely read our school’s mission. It’s a good question, and one I love to answer. Yes, we meditate at …
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Bay is busting down the walls of the traditional classroom to increase learning opportunities for our students! Partnering with Chinese American International School (CAIS), a highly regarded Mandarin immersion K-8, we are piloting an innovative online Advanced Chinese course that allows Bay students to discuss current events and real-world issues, completely in Mandarin, remotely with …
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