Every year in early December, The Bay School’s families descend upon the school for a casual potluck dinner. Armed with seasonal beverages, festive dishes and good cheer, families with students from all grade levels come to relax, share their holiday traditions and connect with each other. While some menu items come from cookbooks that have …
Conversations: Colin on the Mexico Murals Project
Freshmen in Humanities 1A have been working hard to understand bias. All through the Mexico unit, students have considered how different artists, writers and historians have seen the world. In their culminating assignment, students collaborated to make a Diego Rivera-style mural that shows how they themselves see Mexican history. They depicted the pre-Columbian period of the Aztecs …
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Active Endeavors: XC’s Coach Bob on NCS Championship
Cross country traveled to Hayward High School for the annual NCS cross country championship. The steady drizzle and muddy course challenged all runners, yet both girls and boys teams demonstrated marked improvement since last year; the girls team finished 12th, and the boys team finished 19th. The highlight unfolded as senior Anna ran the race …
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Experiences: Students Present at the Fall Research Exhibition
For the past three months, sophomores taking Research in the Community have been building their research skills by exploring topics of personal interest that are also relevant to their communities. They've gathered scholarly information, conducted field research, written about their findings and created a project and presentation. As a culminating exercise, these students had the …
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Conversations: Power and Participation Student Blog
Shawn and Tristan have created a blog called You Sie Politics Differently, which “aims to be a bipartisan source, in which people can see both sides of an issue.” Shawn explains: “As I’ve learned throughout [Power and Participation], we are all fortunate to live in a country where we have a chance to influence the …
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