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Brightworks Blog

Brightworks is a flurry of activity and we are thrilled to share peeks into the lives of the students, our school and the community.

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Portfolios, Reflection, and Student-Led Conferences
Portfolios, Reflection, and Student-Led Conferences
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Benefits of Nature in a World Class City
Benefits of Nature in a World Class City
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 2025 Maker Marketplace coming soon!
2025 Maker Marketplace coming soon!
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Tuition Assistance at Brightworks
Tuition Assistance at Brightworks
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Fall Explorations
Fall Explorations
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Beyond Grades: How Brightworks Prepares Students for Life
Beyond Grades: How Brightworks Prepares Students for Life
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Choosing a Right-fit School for Your Family
Choosing a Right-fit School for Your Family
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Explore our neighborhood
Explore our neighborhood
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The Art and Architecture of Brightworks Project-Based Learning
The Art and Architecture of Brightworks Project-Based Learning
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Unhurried Afternoons - After Care at Brightworks
Unhurried Afternoons - After Care at Brightworks
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Creative Studios: tools for expression
Creative Studios: tools for expression
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Why Community Matters
Why Community Matters
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Finding the Right School for Your Family
Finding the Right School for Your Family
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Carving Club Starts! Monday afternoons
Carving Club Starts! Monday afternoons
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Embracing Nature: Have you seen our Playground?
Embracing Nature: Have you seen our Playground?
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Daily Aphorisms in our High School program! 

These students routinely work together on collages after reflecting on statements they find to be true and relevant! They learn to trust & value each others input, be creative, work with their hands a
Hands in Clay, Minds in Motion 
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When students step into the ceramics studio, something shifts. 
The room slows down. Hands begin to move. Attention sharpens. 

Students are asking themselves, “What will happen if…?” And it become
Our usually annual, much-beloved community event, Maker Marketplace, returns to Brightworks on December 11th from 4–6pm!

This festive gathering is part craft fair, part maker experience, part fundraiser, and part community celebration. Come se
It's that time of year again; project work declarations! 
This is when all our students' exciting exploration work comes to fruition in individual and small group projects! Take a peek at a small sample of projects and try to appreciate what this wea
We continue to proudly support our founder @gevertulley and his international outreach! This time we welcomed representatives from The PBL Institute of Japan, who spent a day with us to learn more about Brightworks and our unique pedagogical approach
A big & heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out for our community potluck & get-together last week! 

We celebrated our wonderful community by sharing some yummy & home made foods, dancing our hearts out, playing together & admir
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deconstruction

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last exposition, first year

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Brightworks is an innovative K-12 project-based school and a project of the Institute for Applied Tinkering, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Brightworks holds diversity of opinion, lifestyle, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and race to be the cornerstone of our school community. Brightworks does not discriminate in its services, programs, or admissions on any of those above criteria.

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