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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Gender Expression & Expansiveness

Immersive Multi Day Event

Earth Day Clean-Up

May: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Planning for Next Year

Mixed-age Classes

Reimagining Education to Honor Children and Childhood

Spring Gathering & Updates from Leadership

How do we measure success?

Spring Celebrations

Brightworks School Receives Historic $10 Million Gift

Break and Build Recap

Happy Black History / Black Futures Month

Brightworks ABC’s

Spreading Love, Peace and Hope

While we are out on summer break our buildings are still a hive of activities! @tinkeringschool is already in full session and they will keep it going with their summer classes through August 8th!

While these teasers cover the Big Builds they are pl

Let's celebrate our 8th grade graduates this year!

While all of our learners got a heartfelt recognition for all their accomplishments and contributions at our last day of school, we do want to especially celebrate our 8th grade graduates!

Some o

We kicked off Pride Month by inviting Drag Queen, storyteller and author Lil Miss Hot Mess, @lilmisshotmess to read from her own work! And our kids loved it!

Take a peak at these cute snippets and see what this playful and imaginary approach can do

We love to see our middle schoolers providing support to our elementary students in a joint effort to share about their current project work! And we are very excited to see these kind of cross age interactions being so beneficial to all participants!

What is happening around Gever's desk?

Take a look at these snippets and imagine the rich culture of learning we work to cultivate on a daily basis!

At the heart of our teaching philosophy is the belief that developing students' agency is vital t

When our Middle Schoolers go camping they always return with an epic experience!

This time they visited Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and The Robert Ferguson Observatory for some night time star gazing, studies of native & indigenous plants, memor

This majestic visitor was spotted right in our parking lot this afternoon— a reminder that at Brightworks, nature isn’t a field trip, it’s our everyday backdrop.

Nestled in the heart of the Presidio, Brightworks students explore tr

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sewers, murals, pipes

Today sewer expert Greg Braswell from the San Francisco Department of Public Works talked to the kids about where water goes in San Francisco. They drew a diagram:They used those ideas to create a sewer system of their own.Mural painting continued.As did the Google SketchUp experimenting.Mix in a little paper art and frivolity and you've got a Brightworks day!