December 14, 2018
By Learning Center Coordinator Cassy Lee
The Middle School just hosted its second Human Library event Friday, December 14, an all-school afternoon dedicated to hearing stories from people who have experienced prejudice and discrimination based on some aspect of their identity. As befits our...
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December 07, 2018
By Music and Movement Specialist Susan Kennedy
I spent the week of December 3-7 at The International School (TIS) in Portland, OR, as a guest artist, sharing CAIS’s school tradition of lion dancing for special events. The International School includes Japanese, Spanish, and Mandarin...
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November 09, 2018
As leading professionals in the larger education field, the impact of CAIS administrators reaches well beyond our campus confines. Just within the past few weeks, for example:
Embracing a National Leadership Role in DEI
Lower School Director Mary Antón, Ed.D. was tapped to lead the...
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October 22, 2018
This month the Bay Area Discovery Museum came to CAIS for a hands-on program with the “Try It Truck,” the BADM’s new engineering lab-on-wheels.
Third, fourth, and fifth graders participated in 75-minute sessions of active, exploratory learning during the Try It Truck engineering program. Lower...
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September 12, 2018
About this time two years ago, a task force of 21 dedicated CAIS teachers, administrators, parents and trustees came together at our 888 Campus on a Saturday morning. The purpose of this gathering was to begin work on creating a philosophy statement that would guide our school’s work on issues of...
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August 30, 2018
This year’s Middle School Mayhem (second year running makes it a TRADITION!) featured teachers and their advisory groups in a dance party! We’re going to be smiling (and dance, dance, dancing) for days!
Music and Movement teacher Nia Womack-Freeman shares, “This was truly a...
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August 21, 2018
One of Carroll Family Learning Center Coordinator Cassy Lee’s graduating eighth graders said it best when reflecting to her, “You blew away my idea of what a librarian is!” School Library Journal has echoed that assessment by naming her Librarian Champion of Student...
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May 23, 2018
While setting up for the annual Parent Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast, the unseasonable cold and rain felt bleak and prompted a move in venue from the Iann-Stolz Playground to the Phanachet Design Lab. As soon as CAIS parents arrived, however, their reliable warm and cordial spirit felt like...
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May 21, 2018
Of the many gifts Anne Valentino and Anna Donnelly have brought to CAIS, the gift of time for (and participation in) the process to find their successors may prove to be one of their most lasting. Thanks to being able to start the process earlier in the school year, we attracted two spectacular...
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May 15, 2018
Started several years ago by art teacher Lisa Ostapinski, Messy Art Day is a beloved Pre-K tradition and a full-bodied celebration of artistic expression and sensory experience.
Ms. Ostapinski explains, “Children at this age learn with their senses and they learn through social interaction....
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