May 10, 2019 | Community & Student Life, Featured Post
In 2015, The Berkeley School was nominated to join an international network of changemaker organizations called Ashoka. A rigorous interview process led to our confirmation, and in June 2016, our school joined the Changemaker Schools Network. In doing so, we engaged...
Mar 1, 2019 | Classroom & Curriculum
by Kirstie Mah, Eugenia Classroom Head Teacher Every child has the right to go to school (the right to an education.) With our return to school after mid-winter break, teachers from the Eugenia classroom on our Early Childhood Campus invited their students to think...
Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
Students, ECC-8th, have been working thoughtfully and creatively to put together a show that shares the art-making, process learning, art history study, innovation, inspiration, and civic engagement that happens every day in the art studio. This year’s show,...
Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Featured Post, For Prospective Families
Like many independent schools in the Bay Area, The Berkeley School was initially founded in 1963 to be a preschool. As our students grew older, our school grew bigger, branching into elementary grades, and eventually flourishing as the ‘sized-just-right’...
Nov 14, 2018 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
Inspired by the “For Freedoms” nationwide public art project, 4th & 5th graders designed lawn signs to post along the road adjacent to our school to communicate the issues that matter to us and inspire others to think about issues that matter to them....
