The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school where innovative teaching and learning is grounded in mindfulness, equity, and community.
Girls Lacrosse is finally here and the students on the team are all smiles! Many girls at Bay have wanted to play lacrosse at Bay but they didn’t have the opportunity until now! Two students in particular really pioneered the movement to bring lacrosse to Bay: 10th graders Lauren L. and Lauren O. The girls …
What do you get when you combine passionate and driven Bay students with a meaningful cause? You get an act of RESPECT! Earlier this fall, Cody ’19, with the help of other Bay students and Staffulty, took action to educate peers and the community about the San Francisco based non-profit organization, Futures Without Violence (FWV). …
By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean The Bay School’s mission tasks us with a focus on innovative thinking, an oft-used buzzword these days, although we’ve had this focus since our inception. A key component of our approach to innovation has to do with our cultural stance towards getting things wrong. Much has been written about failure …
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By Lise Shelton, Assistant Head of School Central to who we are as a school are the Bay School Precepts. Guidelines rather than rules, they ask us to be the community we want to be: caring, intentional, aware. The aspirational quality of the precepts suggests that they are not easily realized. They require work and …
By Andy Shaw, Academic Dean As is the case for many during this time of year, I find myself reflecting during the holiday season on the world we live in, the challenges we face as humans, and the question of what must be done to make our world a better place.  I’m certainly not the …
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