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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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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
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The Art and Architecture of Brightworks Project-Based Learning
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Unhurried Afternoons - After Care at Brightworks
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Creative Studios: tools for expression
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Why Community Matters
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Carving Club Starts! Monday afternoons
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Embracing Nature: Have you seen our Playground?
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Summer - The San Francisco Library
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Gender Expression & Expansiveness
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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
We hope you all had a wonderfully spooky Halloween! Our students did their very best to get us in the right mood before the evening! 

We all take great pride in this most BWX-ian of traditions where we make sure the spookiness is just right, everyon
Give it up for our middle school students who did a bake-off for math! 

We loved to witness their pure delight, focused attention, trouble shooting & team work while simultaneously practicing fractions, measuring and everyday math skills! 

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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
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Cloth Update and Tool Training

The hive has been so lucky to have Daniel Gill, a master puppeteer, visit the hive once a week to make different kinds of puppets and show us how to tell stories with them.Last week, Daniel brought some marionettes!This week, Daniel taught us how to make our own marionettes.Now that we've begun tool training, we can begin to work on our second iteration of the puppet theater.Speaking of tool training, Sylvester shows us proper eye protection while using a clamp.Before the tool challenge, we practiced using the drill to make holes and drive screws. We're working hard on keeping control of the drill and using two hands.Dash loves drilling holes!This week, our tool challenge was to build a cube using drills, clamps, and your team.Just because you're not using a tool doesn't mean you can't help. Calvin held wood for his team so it wouldn't slide around so much while driving screws into it. 

In other news...

We began writing "small moment" stories about things that happen in our lives. A small moment isn't a big long story about your day or the trip you took on vacation. A small moment is one part of your day, like breakfast or going to the park.Khalilah noticed she needed a better spot for writing so we started finding comfortable writing places around the band space where people could work.Ronin is writing a story about New Zealand.Dash is writing about moving into the Sunset house. He's really excited about his families' new home.We're also exploring place value and addition during centers. For this activity, kiddos are building structures from base-ten blocks and adding them up.  

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