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Academic Dean Andy Shaw returns to our blog with another in-depth look at academics at Bay. In this post, Andy talks about what academic rigor looks like at Bay, and how our students are learning to tackle tough questions. A hundred years ago, academic rigor looked different from the way we see it today at …
At Morning Meeting, our students, faculty and staff speak about issues of personal importance. This week, Research in the Community and Humanities faculty member Craig Butz shared a video that he created, exploring the intersection of dress and gender. Does modern clothing reflect gender equality or disparity? Why does Bay have the dress policy it …
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Students in the interdisciplinary Artist as Activist class - co-taught by visual arts and humanities faculty - have been venturing out in the field to learn from other artists who have expressed their visions and belief systems through their art. First stop: Keith Haring: The Political Line at the de Young Museum Keith Haring was an American …
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Mindfulness Teacher Shahara Godfrey shares her thoughts on gratitude during this holiday season, as well as a special poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. The purpose of practicing mindfulness in our daily lives is to be present to what is actually going on…not to what we want it to be or hope it to be. Everything we …
The Sculpture 1B artists were given a design challenge: construct his or her spirit animal out of cardboard and transform their person in some way. Students merged math and art by generating paper prototypes that helped them brainstorm the best strategies to design a simple, yet beautiful form. Some students chose to transform their heads, …
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