As K-8 Director of Teaching & Learning, I am grateful to focus my efforts on ensuring that student learning is always at the center at The Berkeley School, and that teachers and students have the curricula, resources, motivation, and skills to support that learning. My background as a PhD Molecular Biologist explains part of my […]
Our week was shortened by the air quality, but it was still full of learning, laughter, and coming together as a community. Our week started with a Rocket Write, and the Temescalians enjoyed sharing and hearing each others’ pieces. Writing the Thankfulness Expository has really taken off. We have moved from brainstorming to taking the […]
This week started with many voting related things! On Monday, the 6th graders invited grownups to visit as they shared their understanding of different propositions up for voting for all Californians. The kindergartners in Sweet Briar also set up their own polling for 18+ year olds to decide the name of the class blog. Through […]
Dear Temescalians, Our fall class campout is coming up on Saturday! (Please RSVP to Miranda if you plan on attending.) The campout is one night: Saturday November 10. Feel free to join for the day if you don’t want to stay the night. Our group will be camping at the Dairy Glen group campsite at Coyote Hills Regional Park. Every […]
This was a busy week of holiday festivities and a trip out to the Oakland Museum of California, in addition to our usual schedule of learning about math, reading and writing skills, and wrapping up our unit on plants in science. Part of learning math is learning about the vocabulary. The vocabulary words specific to […]
