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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Our upper elementary school students are studying California Immigration History during the Exploration phase of our current Memory Arc! And they are doing it in typical BWX fashion! After learning about California's immigration history they spent a
'Sit with it!' - A weekly excursion into The Presidio by our high school students who venture out to observe, sharpen their senses, find inspiration and write about it! Take a peek and imagine how this beautiful tradition serves as a bridge to develo
A big Thank You to everyone who came out for our Bi&PoC Family Kickback & Dinner last night! We work hard to create a community that feels supportive, inclusive & safe for all of our community stakeholders! Meeting around the table for s
A Mathematician Like Me! Peek in on our Middle School math learners and see how they work to develop their Mathematical Identities! Aiming to develop their sense of confidence & understanding of math as an everyday language, these students wo
This is our campus. The @presidiosf is our playground. As you may have heard, spending time in nature has been linked to better mental health and a decreased risk of psychiatric disorders among adults and children. Dr Heather Eliassen, at Harvard,
A big Thank You to our visiting friends and educational scholars from the Future Classroom Lab at University College Copenhagen! We have hosted them in the past and were thrilled to see them again on their second visit to San Francisco and Brightwork
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By Hand Camp, Day 1

We are off again. This week it's Justine and me on staff, with intern and volunteer support from Anna and Kellie.We focused today on painting. Specifically chaotic and random painting. We splattered and splotched our way to some amazing works. After a nice long park time we came back and started working on our pendulum drawing machine.D7K_4509D7K_4514D7K_4516D7K_4521D7K_4562After working small, we started on a bigger canvas. 10ft by 9ft.D7K_4538D7K_4563Starting tomorrow's project today, we began collecting parts for our pendulum.D7K_4553More photos over on our flickr!

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