Synapse School

🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟

At Synapse, we’re looking for passionate people who bring fresh perspectives, thrive in collaboration, and truly love working with children. We embrace innovation, curiosity, and the belief that every child can grow into a change maker.

If that sounds like you, we’d love to connect.

🔗 Visit the link in our bio (synapseschool.org/about-us/faculty/careers) for available position details!

📩 Apply by sending your resume to [email protected]

Were you at the BLC Research Showcase? 👀

We were completely awed by the presentations from our Brainwave Learning Center team, Radhika, Ailey & Liz T., as well as from our Stanford researchers and students!

We loved learning about the exciting studies happening across levels with Synapse students, including the EEG Seminar Series, as well as the many impactful partnerships the BLC continues to build.

A special congratulations to our Middle School Research Assistants for presenting the original studies they created: Ariana & William, Sonia & Vir, Brooklyn, Alicia, Ryder and Dito, Collette, Emerson, and Lexi and Axel! It was also wonderful to see a few BLC alumni return to visit and celebrate with us.

The creativity, curiosity, and dedication throughout the BLC continue to inspire us all! 🧠

A standing ovation for Synapse’s very FIRST Theater Showcase this past week! 🎭✨

Our students brought their all to the stage with monologues, show tunes and more with a two-night showcase. What a special milestone for our community and the first of many theater traditions to come. Bravo to our students, Synapse Theater teachers Asher & Kathleen, and everyone involved who helped bring this production to life! 👏

Our Middle School Research Assistants took learning beyond the campus with a visit to the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where they got a firsthand look at educational neuroscience in action!

We are excited to share that 8th grade MSRAs also earned 1st and 2nd place at the San Mateo County Science Fair and advances to the state and national level! 🎉

You can come hear about the projects all of our BLC students have been working hard on next week!

Brainwave Learning Center Research Showcase:

📆 Thursday, May 14
⏰ 4:30–6:00pm
📍Synapse Main Campus

Open to students, families, educators, and all who are interested! RSVP with the link in our bio!

Our Associate Director of Middle School Math Innovation, Ben Meiseles, created a Middle School Math Peer Tutor Elective this school year!

The Math Peer Tutors have been training in teaching and learning best practices since November and during Trimester Three, they’ve been joining Shelly and Malcolm’s Level 2 class every few weeks to play math games, model math skills, and provide support for math projects.

We love seeing the mentorship, confidence-building, and genuinely fun connections between our middle and lower school!

Join us next week, May 5 at 6:45pm, for a talk on AI in Education & Parenting with Ami Vora!

Ami is the Chief Product Officer at Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind Claude. After getting a degree in computer science, she spent her career building technology products for a range of different audiences, from Visual Studio to Facebook Ads to WhatsApp - with several breaks in between. Over her 20+ years in tech, she has built a track record of scaling products, teams, and cultures. For many years Ami wrote The Hard Parts of Growth newsletter on substack on product, leadership, and scaling.

AMI VORA ON AI IN EDUCATION & PARENTING:

🗓️ Tuesday, May 5, 2026
⏰ Doors open at 6:30pm; Conversation between Ami & Jim begins at 6:45pm
📍Synapse Annex, Sportshouse, 3151 Edison Way, Menlo Park

Architecting the future of large-scale intelligence at Anthropic, scaling the research-driven, human-centered products that empower users.

This is our final Bold Ideas talk of the school year and the talk will not be recorded!

Tickets are free, open to friends of Synapse and the general public. Must RSVP to register!

🔗: https://www.synapseschool.org/community/synapse-bold-ideas/rsvp

Happy Earth Day! 🌎✨

Our L3 students are learning about vermicomposting in Garden Science! Last week, they built their own worm bins and this week, they’re exploring worm anatomy, how they live, what they need to thrive, and even how they help create rich, healthy soil.
Now they’re mixing up worm food and turning kitchen scraps into valuable “black gold”!

It’s been a wonderful lesson on how nature takes care of each other, and how we can better take care of our planet! ♻️🌱