The Bay School Blog sat down with alumnus Jake to talk about high school memories, what’s stuck with him and how he got where he is today. What are you up to now? I am a piano and environmental studies major at Oberlin College. What was The Bay School like for you? The relationships students …
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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Experiences: U.S. History A as the New York Ratifying Convention
Arts and humanities teacher Colin Williams shares about his history students’ mock debates. What looked like a room full of students last week was in fact a room full of delegates to the New York ratifying convention in Poughkeepsie. The men of New York elected these delegates to decide whether to ratify the new Constitution. At each …
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Professional Development in Action: Colin Williams
“Sometimes a fresh approach or technique is all a teacher needs to be more effective in the classroom. For Colin Williams, a music and humanities teacher at The Bay School in San Francisco, part of that approach is making his band students sing." Read more about the creative strategies Colin gleaned from his professional development …
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Experiences: Visiting the Presidio Chapel
Colin Williams took his junior history class to Presidio Chapel on Monday. To complement their discussion about The New Deal among other topics, students took time to “read” Victor Arnautoff’s 1935 fresco depicting the Presidio’s founding. Between notes and questions, students delved into historical topics both national and local. Take a look! To view all …
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