Synapse in the News

"In the 2020-2021 school year, Synapse partnered with Stanford research teams in Epidemiology, Public Health, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases to do a school-wide research study on COVID-19 risk mitigation in schools. The initial results of that research have recently been published in the research journal Academic Pediatrics, with additional papers to be published in the coming weeks!" 

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"We have a public purpose and a responsibility to the broader good... We teach kids to be change makers and we want to be change makers, and this is a wonderful example of that."

"Synapse is one of the few schools that plan to test students frequently as part of its plans to reopen in-person classes, which are slated to begin at dozens of schools in the Bay Area in the next several weeks."

"In one fourth-grade classroom, a converted storage space, students discussed on Wednesday morning norms for both usual and unusual school years: Be kind. Try your best. Be respectful — particularly when considering that some of their peers are now learning in tents without walls where noise travels easily."

"We're going to transition them in, set expectations appropriately, and make sure these kids just have a place to come back to, learn, and be around other kids and other teachers who care for them."

"Synapse School, a private Menlo Park school, is preparing to welcome around 200 students back by creating outdoor classrooms comprised of tents, seats and tables."

A new collaboration with Synapse School, an independent school in Menlo Park, CA, is helping Stanford researchers better understand how different learning experiences drive changes in the brain.

"By being embedded in a school, we can really see how school experiences impact the development of systems like the brain circuitry for reading or the brain circuitry for computing numbers."