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No teachers and no curriculum: Is this the school of the future?
Brightworks students learn through project-based themes without exams or grades, with nearly one-third of families from Silicon Valley tech companies, founder says.
- In a quiet pocket of San Francisco's Presidio, Brightworks operates without traditional teachers, grades or classes and runs across three buildings serving nearly 100 students.
- Tulley developed his approach after childhood freedom and early experiments, including a backyard Tinkering School and his book 50 Dangerous Things, arguing conventional schools suit only about 15‑30% of students.
- Students are grouped into bands by interest and maturity, the school cycles a semester theme three times a year, and assessment relies on portfolios instead of report cards.
- Brightworks alumni have reached top universities, with many Silicon Valley parents enrolling children and graduates accepted at Harvard.
- Tulley faces sharp criticism for his lack of formal credentials, though he defends Brightworks as preparing kids for the future and notes injury rates match conventional schools.
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No teachers and no curriculum: Is this the school of the future? | News Channel 3-12
A group of Brightworks students work to cut and assemble wooden parts of a project. No teachers and no curriculum: Is this the school of the future? Walking into Brightworks could be a shock for helicopter parents — there are no rows of desks, no hallway passes and no bells to jolt students from one class to the next, Reasons to be Cheerful reports. Instead, the K-12 school is alive with invention, autonomy and what founder Gever Tulley calls “t…
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