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The magic of a handwritten letter is alive and well here at school thanks to our Tapscott Post Office! As part of their neighborhood community study, our 1st grade is learning how a post office is an important part of…

To educate 3rd graders about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and the origin of Black History Month, teachers Priti and Annie illuminate the stories of historically underrepresented activists and changemakers: women of color. They explain how…

Love was in the air as we celebrated Black History Month across both campuses today! Tapscott’s Black History Month Assembly featured our own faculty, staff, and community artists. Singers, dancers, visual artists, and musicians shared their stories and talents with…

What would a safe coming out experience look and sound like? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 6th grade humanities students asked themselves this question while reading The Misfits by James Howe in which one of the main characters comes out as gay to his…

Prospect Sierra 7th and 8th grade engineers blew us away at this year’s @KidWind_Project NorCal Challenge at @calmaritime! They won 1st place gold, placing at the top of the middle school teams and outscoring all but one high school team! 🥇 The students'…

A beautiful collaboration has emerged on our Visibility Board! The 2024 theme of Black History Month is African American Artists, which inspired kindergarten and 3rd grade buddies to study Black artists together. After researching 30 artists, our 3rd graders drew…

Despite blowing winds and rain this weekend, the energy was wonderful and so much was accomplished during All Together Now! We had about 70 people - adults and children - engage with and support the work of our community partners…

Every Friday, Davana Jackson, a teacher at Berkeley’s Center for Early Intervention on Deafness (CEID), which helps deaf or hard-of-hearing kids from ages 0 to 5 overcome the barriers that deafness presents, drives to El Cerrito to teach sign language…

7th graders put Newton's laws of motion, mechanical advantage, and friction into practice with the construction of mousetrap cars! The goal was to see which car could travel the furthest distance based on the potential energy stored in a mousetrap…

8th graders spent a memorable day fostering new and long-standing Prospect Sierra partnerships during their capstone service visits to 7 local sites this month! Students learned how these orgs are making an impact on their communities while supporting their operations…