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Students at The Brandeis School of San Francisco make it matter by participating as innovators and doers in the unique challenges of our time.
Together, we nurture creativity and curiosity, celebrating the connections that engage students with learning, with each other, and with our world.
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Where learning and purpose go hand in hand.
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Celebrating the many ways of being Jewish.
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Our values aren’t just painted on the walls: they walk the halls.
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Parent involvement keeps our community warm, welcoming, and vibrant.
Recent News
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The Day the Crayons Quit Inspires Fourth Graders for Showcase Night
Fourth graders are being tasked with helping music teacher Kimberly Lostetter write the showcase night performance for second through fourth graders, which will include singing and dancing. As inspiration, the class is using the book The Day the Crayons Quit and rewriting the letters from each crayon in the context of the Seven Ways We Learn and Work Together at Brandeis. The story of The Day the Crayons Quit includes letters from different colored crayons that feel their owner is either overusing or underusing their color. “The book provides a great framework for discussing the seven ways, and ultimately will help the fourth graders create a musical performance with the seven ways at its core...Read More -
Eighth Graders Create Rollercoasters Using Only Paper and Tape
The last past several weeks, eighth graders have been engaged in a science unit on physics. As the culmination to the physics unit, students were challenged to create rollercoasters using only paper and tape that a marble could travel through. “Students have been learning about forces, motion, and potential and kinetic energy,” explains teacher Sarah Freilich. “This project applies all of that knowledge.” Working in groups, students have been creating these marble rollercoasters with a set of criteria in mind...Read More -
Mindfulness and Yoga Activities Encourage Academic and Social-emotional Skills in Kindergarteners
In kindergarten, mind-body movement exercises, including mindfulness and yoga, are integrated throughout the day to increase students’ capacity to listen, coordinate movement to instructions, and increase strength and flexibility. “We also hope that this bolsters their concentration, as well as encourage calmness,” explains resident teacher Elizabeth Bowers...Read More -
Seven Ways We Learn and Work Together at Brandeis Provides Framework for Fifth Grade Social-emotional Learning Curriculum
As Jenny Rinn, director of lower school, explained at the beginning of the year, our community came together to design a guide “to forming a community that is open and inclusive to all,” the Seven Ways We Learn and Work Together at Brandeis. In the fifth grade, students and teachers are working their way through this guide, discussing the importance of each principle and participating in activities that highlight this importance. To punctuate the fourth principle, “Listen,” fifth graders paired up last Friday and both students in the pairings were given an identical set of LEGO pieces. One partner used the LEGO pieces to create a structure and then, sitting back to back, the partner who built a structure described it verbally so that the other partner could duplicate the structure...Read More -
Culture of Kindness in Action
For the last two months, eighth graders Avital D., Zohar F., and Amelia L. have dedicated their Friday afternoon elective period to furthering the culture of kindness in the middle school. For an hour each week (and sometimes additional time after school), these students write positive notes of affirmation on Post-it notes and put them up around the middle school wing for their peers to see. “Their empathy and compassion for their peers epitomizes our community values and we are grateful for the enrichment they provide Brandeis,” exclaims Director of Middle School Dr. Sivan Tarle...Read More
