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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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
We grew a couple of new community members during Community Arc! Please welcome Cinnamon & Monica! These two most adorable creatures currently reside in our youngest students' band spaces where they are being tended to by loving and considerate
Memory Arc is underway and our younger middle schoolers went exploring! More precisely they went to #FortPoint to see Black Gold: Stories Untold, a #For_Site Foundation Exhibition. Our students explored the powerful works of contemporary artists te
In Community Arc we build our own chairs! We often start the year with this provocation, as it provides a fun opportunity to shape our own learning environment while introducing shop work and practices! Our students build confidence in their creative
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fair trade and fair labor

Where do our clothes come from? Where does our food come from? Who are the people that make that happen? Today, the Rubber Band and the Coyotes explored these ideas through looking at fair labor and fair trade in our everyday clothes and food.The Rubber Band participated in a sewing workshop making t-shirts with our textile artist Debi that incorporated a discussion of workers' rights and viewing a documentary about fair labor.IMG_4114IMG_4117IMG_4119IMG_4122IMG_4123IMG_4126The Coyotes took a field trip to Safeway armed with a map of the world and they explored the origins of the produce using stickers from the fruit and vegetables they found.DSCN0610DSCN0611DSCN0619DSCN0623DSCN0626DSCN0628DSCN0634

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