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Wilding the Tame
Imagine two science classrooms, each comprised of similar groups of sixth-grade students and run by experienced teachers. One teacher begins the day’s class by writing the word “density” on the board, followed by a definition and and some examples. As he [...]
Author Archives: The Berkeley School
Mitch Bostian’s Letter, May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010 – 12:11 pm
“Eat Smart” Blog Launches
May 25, 2010 – 8:11 am
A hot lunch program where our students could eat together in community and deeply learn the pleasures of eating nutritious and delicious food, and where they could be steeped in a seed-to-table ethos of eating local and organic food, was a long-time dream of Janet Stork, our late Head of School. After seeing the [...]
May 21, 2010 Backpack Mail
May 21, 2010 – 11:27 am
1. Newsnotes for May 21, 2010
1a.Newsnotes en español para 21 de mayo 2010
2. Ticket and Dinner Order Form for “To Kill a Mockingbird”
3. Student Recital Sign-Up Form
Mitch Bostian’s Letter, May 18, 2010
May 18, 2010 – 2:25 pm
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Working Together In The Face Of Doubt
On a mountain slope in northwest Canada, four people huddle around a map and compass, trying to determine where they are, how they got there, and what they should do next. Twelve hours ago, this team, along with [...]
May 14, 2010 Backpack Mail
May 14, 2010 – 11:51 am
1. Newsnotes for May 14, 2010
1a.Newsnotes en español para 14 de mayo 2010
2. Ticket and Dinner Order Form for “To Kill a Mockingbird”
3. Student Recital Sign-Up Form
Mitch Bostian’s Letter, May 11, 2010
May 11, 2010 – 5:15 pm
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Filling the Sails of the Group
If you spend any time around the University campus this week, you’ll probably notice something different. In the K-3 classrooms, it’s business as usual as students and teachers hum along towards the end of the year — chicken journals, [...]
May 7, 2010 Backpack Mail
May 7, 2010 – 10:38 am
1. Newsnotes for May 7, 2010
1a.Newsnotes en español para 7 de mayo 2010
2. Student Recital Sign-Up Form
Mitch Bostian’s Letter, May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010 – 4:36 pm
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Ability, Motivation, and Awareness
Last summer, on an oppressively muggy Monday morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts — the first day of the Project Zero Classroom Institute — I made my way to a Harvard lecture hall for my first Project Zero mini-course. To put it mildly, [...]
April 30, 2010 Backpack Mail
April 30, 2010 – 3:03 pm
1. Newsnotes for April 30, 2010
1a.Newsnotes en español para 30 de abril 2010
Mitch Bostian’s Letter, April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010 – 2:00 pm
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Mitch Bostian’s letter, which concerns tomorrow’s Parent Education event on accreditation, arrives a day early this week.
Accreditation
As you know from Newsnotes, from email, and from signs posted on both campuses, on Tuesday evening, TBS will host a parent information event focused on the upcoming accreditation [...]
