Dec 1, 2017 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
The week before our Thanksgiving break, students in the Explorers (Transitional K) classroom committed to a Kindness Pledge. The Kindness pledge comes from the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, which calls for people to commit to a 14-week kindness challenge. Each...
Nov 9, 2017 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
Seventh grade students recently completed a math project involving partnering with MathAction, a group that aims to empower students to solve real-world problems through mathematics. In this project, they designed a model for water distribution in a refugee camp,...
Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
Strawberry Creek made their way by BART to San Francisco to take a Precita Eyes Mural Tour on Balmy Avenue. Precita Eyes is an inner-city, community-based, mural arts organization whose muralists work to enrich and beautify urban environments and educate the public...
Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
Students from the Magnolia classroom have been busy exploring color, color mixing, and texture this fall. We’ve also been reading books by Eric Carle and looking closely at how he creates his pictures. We made “Eric Carle” paper for use in collage...
Mar 22, 2017 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum, Faculty/Staff Perspectives
By Sima Misra, Director of Teaching & Learning Thirteen faculty and admin from each campus and each division serve on the committee to help bring the school closer to accomplishing two important goals: To build a scope and sequence for our anti-bias education...
Dec 5, 2016 | Blog, Classroom & Curriculum
By Katherine Campbell, K-5 Academic Learning Specialist At The Berkeley School, we honor the whole child and recognize that all children develop at different rates. We also know that it is essential for all children to become proficient readers before third grade to...
