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 2

Today we worked on three major projects: our own personal accordion notebooks and suminagashi prints, and continued work on our drawing machine.We climbed high to put paracord over our rafters.D7K_4591We did so very attentively.D7K_4593The kids took the camera.D7K_4853They got some really great shots.D7K_5242The afternoon was all suminagashi and pendulum building.D7K_5526D7K_5530More on the pendulum tomorrow.

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