Saturday: April 10, 9:30-10:30

Join us for our Monthly Coming Together Coffee as we work to bring our local public schools - Bayside MLK and Willow Creek Academy - together into a single K-8 public school opening this Fall, 2021. Everyone is welcome from parents, teachers, staff, community members! Please help spread the word to invite others across our 94965 community.

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Thursday: April 1, 6:00pm start.

Monthly Board Meeting. To see the agenda and zoom links for April 1 meeting, click here. Zoom links also below to access meeting:

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Tuesday: March 30, 6:00pm start:

The Sausalito Marin City School District and Willow Creek Academy will be holding their next study session. This is an opportunity for staff and parents to hear the latest updates on plans for the new, unified schools for next year.

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Tuesday, Jan 26 6:00pm start.

Our SMCSD Trustees will vote on appointing a replacement to fill the vacancy on our district school board. Please join to comment during public comment time and listen to vote!

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Missed the interviews with me and Laura Gonzalez (applicants to fill the recent vacancy on the Sausalito Marin City School District board? No worries! The recording will be posted here once available.

And thank you to all the people that wrote in letters of support for my candidacy. You can read them along with the applications from both Laura and myself HERE (go to the Jan 22 link then View Agenda to see them).

I really enjoyed meeting Laura (Lau) and hearing your ideas as we both answered 22 questions (yes 22!) submitted by the community and our trustees. And given it was a Friday night I couldn’t believe how many people came to listen in and speak during public comment time. Really shows how passionate and engaged we are as a school community!

Missed the Jan 14, 2021 meeting? No worries, the recording is here.

Missed the meeting? No worries, the recording is here.

Missed the meeting? No worries the recording is here.

Organizational board meeting welcoming two new board members!

Missed the meeting? No worries, the recording is here.

Missed the meeting? No worries, the recording is here.

Keep Talking! Narrative Development for Language and Social Learning

Date and Time: December 7: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

This workshop will provide information, tips, and sample visual supports to use with elementary through high school students, focus on how adults can mediate social learning and language successfully, review basic conversational choices, and examine how students can practice these skills using topics that are most interest to them.

Registration required - Register here.

Great Outdoor Unity Event hosted by Sausalito Beautiful:

Brighten your spirits and brighten our parks by helping Sausalito Beautiful plant lots of daffodils! We aim to plant over 1,000 yellow and white daffodil bulbs around Dunphy and MLK Parks on two separate community planting days. It’s a great family activity, and we hope it will become an annual tradition. This is a COVID-19 safe event. More Information and Sign Up!

Great Outdoor Unity Event hosted by Sausalito Beautiful:

Brighten your spirits and brighten our parks by helping Sausalito Beautiful plant lots of daffodils! We aim to plant over 1,000 yellow and white daffodil bulbs around Dunphy and MLK Parks on two separate community planting days. It’s a great family activity, and we hope it will become an annual tradition. This is a COVID-19 safe event. More Information and Sign Up!

Missed the meeting? No worries recording is here.

Agenda: Part 2 discussion on 1) Final Budget, 2) Personnel Structure, 3) Draft Joint Resolution for our new unified PreK-8 school

Missed the meeting? No worries, the recording is here.

Nov 8 3:00: Marin City Victory Party for Biden/Harris win!

Wed, Oct 4, 6:00-9:00

Agenda: 1) Final Budget, 2) Personnel Structure, 3) Draft Joint Resolution

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

Oct 31 - HALLOWEEN - starts at 6:00 pm:

94965 Family Halloween Get Together: Drive-In Movie Night Under the Stars in honor of Chadwick Boseman.

Dress up in Halloween costumes and join the fun in a safe, local family gathering!

Snack packs provided for kids (or bring your own). Two movies playing at our local pop up drive-in movie theatre on the Sausalito Marin City local ballpark (enter at 500 Drave Avenue, Marin City):

6:00pm: Black Panther

8:30: Get On Up

Note: both movies rated PG-13, there may be a few scenes that some may consider inappropriate for younger children. Event is for families in 94965 only. Masks and social distancing required. This is a Covid 19 shelter in place event according to Marin County Health and Human Services Guidelines. See flyer for local partners putting on event.

Wednesday, Oct 21 at 5:30-8:30

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

It was a very productive meeting with the joint boards built consensus on staffing and budget for the unified school! Well worth listening to as you will be filled with hope for our future.

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

Several parent letters were submitted to board, including:

Nicole Bellefeuille

Carlin Walker

More board correspondence here.

Board discussed important topics including:

1. WCA board changes (long time board member Jeff Knowles stepped down)

2. Assessment of whether the Marin City learning hubs are actually working on the ground to mitigate learning loss for our most vulnerable students. Many concerns and needed follow-up were discussed.

3. Current WCA enrollment numbers.

4. School re-opening plans.

THANK YOU to all the people that attending our campaign Q&A event. You refilled my bucket with your words of support and stories. I could not be more blessed to have such a diverse group of supporters.

We are creating a BROAD Unity Tent where everyone across Sausalito and Marin City will be heard and belong. Thank you for being the support helping me hold up this tent for our community. Yasmine

View Agenda here for this Oct 8th SMCSD Board Meeting.

Recording will be posted here as soon as available.

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

Focus was on building consensus around governance, structure, and staffing.

Missed this great School Board Candidate Forum? No worries. Here is the full recording.

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

Event Info: School Unification Update!

Join Itoco Garcia, Superintendent of the Sausalito Marin City School District, for a status update and information about next steps in the process currently underway to combine Willow Creek Academy and Bayside MLK, Jr. Academy into a single school.

A Q&A period will follow Itoco's presentation. Please RSVP (link below) to receive details on accessing the event via Zoom.

Suggested questions for the Q&A may be submitted on the RSVP form or emailed to Abbot Chambers at achambers@sausalito.gov.

Raised in Southern Marin, Itoco holds a doctorate in education from UC Berkeley and has worked in public education for two decades. He became district superintendent in June 2019.

RSVP for the School Unification Update: here

This program is presented by the Sausalito Library.

Thursday, October 1, 6:00-8:00 PM

Missed the Candidate Forum? No worries, here is the recording.

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

SMCSD & WCA Joint Study Session Focus on Organizational Structure and Governance.

Missed the meeting? No worries, here is the recording.

The focus was on building consensus by the WCA board on Unification: Governance and Structure. A memo on various structures was presented by WCA board member Jeff Knowles at the meeting. Unfortunately, it was not posted to WCA school site prior to the meeting for the general public to read in advance and be adequately prepared to provide comments and feedback during open public comment time during board meeting.

The memo is worth reading as it discusses having an all charter structure for our unified school and appointed vs publicly elected leadership of the district board. You can read the full memo here.