Make it matter
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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Annual Board, Community, and Parent Association Volunteer Celebration Wraps Up 2017–18 School Year
Throughout the year, volunteers make it matter by sharing their time and resources with the Brandeis School of San Francisco in ways that support our students and make a positive impact on the school. Our community came together on Tuesday night at Foreign Cinema for the Annual Board, Community, and Parent Association VolunteerRead MoreCelebration to acknowledge and celebrate the many volunteers who have helped throughout the year... -
Made with Code Day Excites Students about Technology and Coding
On Friday, June 1, Brandeis hosted our 4th annual Made with Code Day, which encourages students to be more curious about learning computer science. As part of our STEM program at Brandeis, all of our students are taught computer science with the aid of the programs Code.org and Scratch, and by working with robots...Read More -
Student-created Brandeis Quilt Embodies Year of Mentoring
As the culminating activity of the Brandeis mentoring program, mentor buddy pairs worked together to create a square for a student-created quilt. “After the Mentoring Youth Board (MYB) participated in the mural walk and workshop, they wanted to bring their experience back to Brandeis and incorporate our entire student community,” explains Dean of Student Life Sharona Israeli-Roth...Read More -
A Fairy-tale Ending to First Grade
On Friday, June 1 Barbara Eisenhauer’s first grade class celebrated the conclusion of their final Writers Workshop unit by hosting a Fairy-tale Tea. For the past six weeks, first graders have been studying fairy tales. Students read many fairy tales, including different versions of the same stories, and learned about fractured fairy tales—a story that has been modified to make the audience laugh at an unexpected characterization or plot development. Then, it was their turn to write their own fairy tales...Read More -
Brandeis Students Give Back to San Francisco Community on All-school Volunteer Day
On Wednesday, May 30, every Brandeis student participated in an all-school volunteer day in various parks throughout San Francisco. Organized by Dean of Student Life Sharona Israeli-Roth, this Brandeis all-school volunteer day coincided with World Environment Day and ties in closely with our Brandeis community value of tikkun olam—repairing the world—which says, “We embrace our collective responsibility to help repair the world..."Read More -
With Poise and Maturity, Eighth Grade Class Leads Last Tefillah of School Year
One week ago the eighth graders led their first grade buddies down the aisle of Beth Israel Judea to conduct their first community tefillah. Today, the first graders again walked the same aisle hand in hand with the eighth graders, who were about to lead the assembled Brandeis community in tefillah for the last time. Poised and confident, the class of 2018 led the morning prayers by introducing each one and sharing how the prayer connected to their time in Israel...Read More -
Tzedek Program Challenges Seventh Graders to Think Like Philanthropists
At last Friday’s Tzedek Program culmination event, the seventh grade announced the recipients of this year’s Tzedek Fund grants. Representatives from the recipient nonprofit organizations (NPOs) were on hand to receive the checks and thank the students. Representatives of NPOs—ranging from LGBT rights to environmental protection, to help for the homeless of San Francisco and care for animals...Read More -
Kinship Project Brings Eighth Grade Families Together to Share Stories
The ninth annual Kinship Project Evening took place on May 17, the culmination of a six-week eighth grade research and writing project that engages students in interviewing their parents and other relatives; gleaning details of family history and recording stories; and then producing a final paper that includes the interviews and a family album. For this annual story-telling evening, all students, parents, and grandparents are invited to get up and tell a three-minute story from their lives...Read More -
Brandeis Alumna Named One of 32 American Rhodes Scholars in 2018
Brandeis alumna and current Stanford University senior, Madeleine Chang ’09, was recently selected one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars from a candidate pool of 866. Rhodes scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study for each scholar at the University of Oxford in England...Read More
