Community Archives - Presidio Knolls School

Metabolizing Trauma

In our faculty meeting this week, we talked as a community about ways to get centered so that we can be the sturdy, regulated leaders that our children need. I am passing some of the strategies that we covered on to you to offer you some tools to model for your children.

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Reconsidering What We Know About Native American People, Culture, and History

As we read this story, we had one burning question – how can we replace our collective imagination of Native Americans with authentic experiences that increase our understanding? As students realized from the story above, good intentions are not enough. If we allow ourselves to remain ignorant, we can end up causing embarrassment at best, and trauma at worst.

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Día de los Muertos Community Ofrenda

Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a holiday to honor loved ones who have died. The tradition began thousands of years ago with ancient tribes. This year at PKS, the PA, DEI committee, and teachers teamed up to create a community ofrenda to be contributed to and enjoyed by all.

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Celebrating the Joyful Moments in Preschool (小朋友的笑话）

Preschool is filled with a million moments of learning, bonding, and most importantly joy. Children approach the world so differently than we do as adults and the things they observe, do, and say help us see the world in a different light. As we approach the holiday season, we wanted to share just a few of the many preschool moments that brighten our days and bring smiles to our faces.

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Bringing Preschool to Life

Everyone has their own story. Teachers, like most people, bring those stories – stories that grow out of our passions, our interests, our cultural background, and our personalities – into the workplace. These stories inform how we see the world and how we approach our work. Although teaching is what we do as a profession, it is not all that we are, and it’s those extra dimensions that make each classroom so special.

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Our Growing Home: PKS Preschool Over the Past Decade

In 2009, a year after PKS opened its doors, I felt so lucky to join a tiny but cozy two room preschool in the Presidio with 25-30 students. Ten years later, a lot has changed, but watching the school (and my first students) grow and transform has been amazing. Although the school may not look the same on the outside, what makes PKS such a special place still remains: our community and sense of family.

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Learning and Growing through Volunteering

As PKS teachers, we are always seeking new ways to practice our Habits of Character (respectful, responsible, resilient, collaborative, globally minded, caring and reflective) and bring them to life for our students within and beyond our school community. My own journey took an unexpected turn this past August as a result of an amazing and transformative professional development experience, an experience I want to bring to my students in the classroom.

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Building a Middle School Community

As the PKS middle school expands, we are working hard to maintain the feelings of a small, close-knit community. Part of this effort included an opening week with daily, "all middle school" activities.

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Published Authors!

During their first grade year, three PKS classmates created a story called “Friends in the Arctic” as part of their shadow show project.The story follows a group of friends who live in the Arctic. One day, they are unexpectedly sucked…