Now in its sixth year, this extremely fun Middle School tradition kicks off student Advisory Groups with a field day to build bonds and understanding. Through healthy competition, the Advisory…
The Class of 2022 became the first CAIS eighth grade to graduate in the theater at the new 19th Avenue campus on June 9. Alumna Kelsey Rasmussen ’12 served as…
On the next-to-last day of school, the entire Middle School student body went up the hill to the field to participate in something that’s become an end-of-year tradition—an all-middle school Yuki Ball championship….
Daniel Bednarczyk from Slide Ranch (site of our sixth grade outdoor ed last fall) shared an update on our story from the January 2022 Middle School Update on the Black…
By Lusia F. ’22Throughout the eighth grade year, students have been studying power. Power, particularly who has it, how it is used and how it acts is an important and informative lens…
The high school application process is a rite of spring…and the previous winter, fall, and summer for that matter, too. Every year our eighth graders and their families undergo this almost year-long endeavor…
See recent Middle School news Based on a foundation of best practices in education, the newest brain research, and standards by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and…
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, I recall joking with my friends and family (on a new technology called “Zoom,” naturally) about what it would be like if…
High School Placement Counselor Sean Mosconi In addition to serving as Sixth Grade English and Social Studies Teacher, for the past three years Sean Mosconi has deftly guided CAIS middle…
In any year, the high school search process for the Bay Area and beyond is exceptionally complex and competitive. The pandemic gave the added wrinkle of moving the process entirely…
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