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Welcome to the blog of Zaq Roberts, Associate Head of School at The Berkeley School in Berkeley, CA. I blog about a wide variety of topics, from classroom moments I witness, to administrative events and conversations, to the educational blogs, videos, and books I am reading and watching, and how they are influencing my thinking. I hope this eclectic approach will give you insight into the many ways that I am engaging in advancing the school and strengthening our program, and I welcome your thoughts and comments!

This blog takes its name from a quotation by Archimedes that reads "Give me a lever long enough, and I can move the world." The TBS mission speaks directly to the need to engage a changing world, while many of the experiences in our program focus on the development of students' agency and authority. TBS is the lever by which we all - administration, faculty, students, and parents - can together move the world to be more humane, compassionate, and responsive. To borrow an important Montessori phrase, it is our way to remake the world.

Friday, December 7, 2012

This week's field trips

We had some pretty darn cool field trips happening this week at TBS! In K/1, Blackberry Creek spent the day at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, as part of their emergent curriculum unit on flight.





In 4/5, Cerrito Creek spent a soggy day at the U.C. Botanical Gardens and Tilden Park, doing field work to extend their Lewis And Clark cultural studies work...



...while Strawberry Creek spent a sunny day in San Francisco at the Exploratorium, learning more about their current science studies of electricity and magnetism (as well as all the other fun exhibits, like cow's eye dissection).








Photos by Youval Dar, Katy Grannan, and Jeff Grether.
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