The Black Pine Circle School LinkedIn Group is for the school’s alumni, past faculty, staff, and friends to reunite and stay in touch with one another and the school. Black Pine Circle is an independent school for kindergarten through 8th grade in Berkeley, California, whose mission is to create a learning community that encourages humanity, empathy, moral depth, cultural understanding, and freedom in intellectual pursuits. Our goal is to create lifelong learners through an inquiry-based Socratic education that places equal emphasis on academics and the arts.