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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.
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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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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 -
Third Graders’ Tzedakah Fair Showcases Commitment to Tikkun Olam
For the past month, one of the focuses of third grade Judaic studies has been tzedakah, a Hebrew word which comes from the root tzedek, meaning political justice. Students worked with their families to choose a tzedakah project for the whole family to engage in. “In this project, we make tzedakah a part of the student’s family’s natural rhythm and create regular opportunities for students and families to give their time together,” explains teacher Sharona Israeli-Roth...Read More -
Kindergarteners Learn to Code
As part of Computer Science Education Month this month, kindergarteners have been introduced to some of the core concepts of coding and computer programming. “The students are learning the value of loops to help perform actions in a far more concise and efficient way,” explains technology integration specialist Leo Stern...Read More -
Eighth Graders Engage with the Aesthetics of Art, Architecture, and Algebra
For the last few weeks, eighth graders in Cameron Yuen-Shore’s math class have been working on linear equations and inequalities, discovering their different properties and applications. “After learning about the basics of slope and intercepts, we applied our knowledge to the outlines of buildings,” says Cam, as he’s known to his students. Students picked a building they are excited to see on their upcoming Israel trip and graphed the silhouette and details of that building in slope intercept form in an online platform...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 -
Eighth Graders Take On Dred Scott Trial
Eighth grade social studies teacher Neal Biskar regularly reminds his students that they know more about the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. form of government than the majority of Americans. That knowledge was put to the test this week as eighth graders participated in a simulation of the famous Dred Scott case that was heard by the Supreme Court in 1857...Read More
