Santa Rosa City Schools Superintendent Socorro Shiels will be the next participant in the city of Santa Rosa’s “Coffee with a Local Leader” program. The meet up begins at 9 a.m. Aug. 30 at Holy Roast Coffee Co., 490 Mendocino Ave. Bring your questions and comments.
Piner High School’s Andrea Correia has been named assistant principal at Santa Rosa High School. Correia has spent 14 years teaching in Santa Rosa City Schools, including at Piner where she taught government, was social science department chairwoman and lead the school’s associated student body class. Correia will earn a [...]
Elizabeth Newman has been named principal at Hidden Valley Elementary School and Hidden Valley Satellite. Newman, who has worked in Santa Rosa City Schools since 1992, worked as a teacher at Hidden Valley before stints as coordinator in the K-6 curriculum and instruction office and as an instructor in the [...]
Monroe Elementary School’s Michael Persinger was recently awarded an NEA Foundation award to travel to the “Constructing Modern Knowledge” conference in New Hampshire earlier this month. Persinger, who teaches third grade, received a $2,000 Learning and Leadership grant from the NEA. His focus at the conference was refining multimedia projects [...]
The Mark West School District has hired a new principal at San Miguel Elementary School and a new director of curriculum and students services for the 1,400-student district. Nicole Lamare will take the helm at San Miguel for the 2013-14 school year. Kent Cromwell has moved on to become principal [...]
UPDATE: A recent comment that listed what purported to be Santa Rosa City Schools Superintendent Socorro Shiels’ home address has been removed. As a matter of policy, the Press Democrat almost never runs specific residential addresses of people in the news. ______ Santa Rosa City Schools has made four new [...]
The Santa Rosa School Board has selected Ridgway High School incoming senior Joseph McCloud to be the student representative on the board beginning July 1. The board has included a student representative on the board since 1978. Schools are represented on a regular rotation. Student representatives are given a preferential [...]
Reminder: The Trashtastic Boatacular fest is this Saturday in Santa Rosa. We ran a story last month about the efforts by Comstock and Santa Rosa middle school students to create floatable vessels to enter in the "competition." To read that story, click here http://bit.ly/11nGUmk The event, which includes a potluck [...]
Santa Rosa Middle School eighth grader Luis Torres is Santa Rosa City Schools student of the month for May. Torres is described as a student with a positive attitude who can be counted on to do the right thing in all situations. “Luis is the type of student who reminds [...]
Hidden Valley Elementary School sixth grader June Thomasson is Santa Rosa City Schools student of the month for May. Thomasson is active in Hidden Valley’s Safe School Ambassador program, math Olympics, student council and she is a sign language ambassador. Thomasson is credited for her creative spirit and her ability [...]