Maybeck High School

Last week, we returned to Shorebird Park in Alameda for our annual SAC (Student Activities Committee) Day! The day is a well-deserved break from regular classes as students prepare for finals.

This year, students and staff held restorative workshops that included making art, reading, playing games, and ultimate. We ended the day with an epic water fight with sponges (cleaner and more eco-friendly than balloons), followed by our new tradition of treating our SAC leaders to a nice, relaxing dousing of ice water 🥶.

Thank you, SAC, for planning such a wonderful day!

Congratulations to Maybeck students and members of the Oakland Strokes Rowing Club high school racing team, Annelise H and Serafina M, who each brought home medals from the USRowing Southwest Youth Regional Championships! Both are heading to Sarasota, Florida, for Nationals in June.

What is the future of learning and thinking in the era of artificial intelligence?

Join us on Thursday, May 7, as author and teacher Daniel Herman explores the impact of generative AI on the classroom and intellectual life more broadly.

Daniel is a Humanities teacher at Maybeck High School, a contributor to The Atlantic magazine, and author of Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick.

This event is free and open to the general public. More details are available at the event linked below.

Congratulations to our newly admitted students! We are so grateful to our applicant families who took the time to get to know our community, as we enjoyed getting to know each one of you. Welcome home! 🏫

Decisions go live today, March 20, at 4:00 PM. Keep a close eye on your inbox and mailbox! 📩

Kudos to our Pineapple Players for their outstanding performance of "Almost, Maine" by John Cariani! Portraying multiple characters across nine interconnected vignettes, these student actors filled the stage with joy, energy, and passion, delivering an emotionally moving performance. Bravo!

📸: Sam Godoy Photography

Maybeck High School Theatre presents Almost, Maine by John Cariani.

This play is comprised of nine interconnected vignettes that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical, almost-town called Almost, Maine.

Performances will be this Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, at 7:00 PM at St. John's Presbyterian Church. The running time is approximately two hours with an intermission. Members of our Student Activities Committee will be selling refreshments before the show and during intermission. We hope to see you there!

Tickets are free for Maybeck Students and Staff
Adult tickets are $16
Child tickets are $10

Click the link in the comments to reserve your tickets.

Earlier this week, we held our annual Black History Month Workshop Day—a day when we pause regular classes to come together as a community to learn, create, and engage with Black history and its centrality to our world.

We began the day with a Community Engaged Learning Program lesson centered on local action aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. From there, students and staff led engaging workshops exploring Black STEM excellence, photography from the Black Panther Party, food and cultural stereotyping (with ice cream making!), the five elements of hip hop, and film studies featuring Becoming, Summer of Soul, and Get Out.

We closed the day with an inspiring talk from civil rights icon and former Black Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown, who reflected on her journey and her continued commitment to activism today.