Benjamin Nathan, Korianna Austera, Michael Weitz: Berkeley High School math teachers by weekday, and Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts by weekend. Beginning during quarantine, they’ve been meeting semi-regularly to join in playing the game.
“Going to school in Spain opened me up to a lot of different opinions and a lot of different insights,” said Liam Graham, a Berkeley High School senior who spent a semester studying abroad at the American School of Madrid, an international school in Madrid, Spain. For BHS senior Emma Claus, studying abroad at Hiyoshigaoka
Berkeley High School senior Charlotte Lee mentioned her love for nature in Berkeley. “Up behind the Claremont, there’s this grove of eucalyptus trees,” she said, “It’s great.” She also shared her appreciation for the Berkeley Hills, “It’s really pretty up there, it’s a great place to go on hikes and stuff like that,” Lee said.
Carpentry is a unique class at Berkeley High School: very hands-on, with access to many different kinds of tools. The goal of the class is to introduce the craft of construction to students who don’t have any prior knowledge.
Typically, a Berkeley Unified School District student takes their first music class in third grade, learning how to play the recorder. In fourth and fifth grades, students can select an instrument from a range of brass, woodwind and string instruments.
Miriam Klein Stahl, known to all her students simply as “Stahl,” has been an art teacher at Berkeley High School since 1995. As a teacher, she gives her students creative freedom to express themselves.
The Mock Trial team is a club at Berkeley High School that caters to those interested in a future career in law. At the beginning of the school year, members are given a trial case and then assigned certain roles, such as the role of a prosecution witness, defense attorney, bailiff, and other positions regularly
A range of factors can cause students not to attend school, including struggles with the class subject or conflicts with other students. However, skipping class affects not only the students but their teachers as well.
As we grapple with the consequences of climate change, it shows just how vital the role of rain in our ecosystem is. Merideth Irby, a librarian at Berkeley High School who organized a climate justice and activist training last year, has been interested in climate change since college.
If you have witnessed a performing arts production at Berkeley High School, you have benefitted from the stage crew. Students involved in stage crew take care of the technical aspects of productions such as building sets, setting up, and running lighting and sound systems.
“I’m functioning as if I’m not retiring. And I have to my mind like, Okay, you need to start shutting things down. You need to start cleaning up your office, you know, and kind of throwing stuff out,” Barbara Mellion said.
Families, friends, and fans of dance gathered in the Little Theater on Dec. 9 and 10 to watch Berkeley High School’s 2023 Dance Production Winter Showcase.
Mouth-watering pizza with a cheese pull for days, hearty waffles decorated with sweet whipped cream and freshly sliced fruits, pesto gnocchi with the perfect combination of basil and nuttiness that hugs your tongue – with each dish, Berkeley High School’s Boys Who Cook club encourages students of all backgrounds to find solace and community in
Certain students at Berkeley High School have different dietary restrictions that prevent them from eating some “classic” Thanksgiving foods: The roasted turkey, the warm mashed potatoes, or sweet pecan pie.
Last minute cram sessions in the College and Career Center, arduous classes working on elaborate individual and group projects, staring at computer screens, working away at lengthy essays: finals can be an extremely stressful time for Berkeley High School students, and one of the greatest factors that can dictate a student’s level of stress is
“People procrastinate a lot, which makes us set important things to the side … If you can manage time well, you’ll be able to balance things you need to do and things you enjoy,” Berkeley High School senior Lexi Perez said.
News has become much more accessible to the world through social media and technology. Social media users are bringing up information about mental health and other real world problems online.
The “Vagina Monologues” was a staple production at Berkeley High School for 19 years. Based on the 1996 play written by Eve Ensler, the student-run show aimed to capture the nuance of women’s experiences in a patriarchal world.
