The Bay School of San Francisco is an independent high school where innovative teaching and learning is grounded in mindfulness, equity, and community.
Humanities teacher, counselor and writer Ayize Jama-Everett has strong feelings about giving students room to grow and learn. “I like seeing kids in their natural habitat, hearing them say, ‘Oh, I’m kind of curious about this. I want to learn more about it.’” Helping to open two group homes for teens and working at a …
Continue reading "World Traveler, Author and Teacher: Meet Ayize Jama-Everett"
Members of the Model United Nations club recently attended UCLA's BruinMUN Conference, where they simulated the proceedings of the UN and debated topics from immigration to chemical weapons. Four delegates shared their experiences with us. Morey '15 I represented Romania in the European Union. The EU was an interesting committee because, as a union of …
Continue reading "Tackling Global Issues: Student Reflections on Model UN"
Printmaking bridges drawing and painting. The Advanced Drawing and Painting artists are taking their favorite drawings from their life drawing sessions and transforming them into prints. Many students are working with reductive lino cut techniques while some students are gravitating towards incising into Styrofoam and inking and printing from that surface. Others are working with …
Continue reading "Inspired Printmaking: Expanding on Sketches"
Mindfulness Teacher Shahara Godfrey shares her thoughts on – and a meditation exercise about – appreciating our bodies and ourselves. The Body Let me begin with a reminder about the definition of mindfulness: mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience. I especially like Jon Kabat-Zinn’s definition of mindfulness: “Mindfulness means paying …
Continue reading "Mindfulness Practice: Focusing on the Body"
The Advanced Drawing and Painting artists are continuing with their weekly life drawing sessions in the art studio. While students worked solely on newsprint for their first sessions, students are now working on different surfaces and with a range of materials, from white china marker to conte crayon to ink. Students are recognizing that this …
Continue reading "Drawing from Life: Advanced Drawing and Painting in the Studio"
#SchoolStories 