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By Lori Cohen, Dean of Faculty   Whenever I get to write or talk about teaching, my heart swells. I can't imagine a better way to spend my time than in a classroom with students, or observing teachers teach, or providing professional development for those across the teaching spectrum, from the newest in our school …

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Written by Lori Cohen, Dean of Faculty The Bay School is about to undergo a significant schedule shift next year, and while the core elements of our academic program will remain intact (80-minute blocks on a rotating schedule, project-based and experiential learning, creative approaches to problem-solving), some portions will serve to augment our approaches to …

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Written by Andy Shaw, Dean of Curriculum and Innovation “Interdisciplinary”: it’s one of those funny buzzwords that schools love to use, describing with many syllables something that intuitively, most of us know ought to be integral to an education. Technically the word means, of course, to integrate two academic disciplines, but as in so many …

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She led the students in a warm-up, flapping their arms in big circles to the front then big circles to the back. Stretching up and over to the left, then to the right. Instructing the students to take a deep breath in, hold it, and release. Again. Over and over she had them doing exercises …

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