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By 08/04/2021
The Tomales Bay Youth Center, a hub for young people located on the West Marin School campus, has been adopted by West Marin Community Services. The acquisition will provide a more secure future for the center, which started in 2011 as a program of the West Marin Lions Club. Over time, the project grew and provided after-school services and served as a hub for youth advocacy. Madeline Hope, the director of the youth center, said the project relied on many disparate funding streams and the Lions Club had been looking to merge with a larger community partner for years; at the same time, West Marin Community Services was looking to expand its influence on youth services. After consulting with the Center for Volunteer Nonprofit Leadership and conducting a feasibility study, the boards of the Lions Club and West Marin Community Services voted to move forward with the merger, which began on July 1. Ms. Hope said she was thrilled to be partnerin
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By 02/03/2021
Adam Jennings, the principal of Tomales High School for the past eight years, will step into the role of superintendent of Shoreline Unified School District this summer.
The district’s board selected Mr. Jennings through a competitive process to replace Bob Raines, who is retiring after five years at the post and more than four decades in education.
“Adam has really built a culture that is centered around equity and accountability at the high school, and his efforts to include all students and all families shows,” Mr. Raines said. “He works well with staff: He listens, he incorporates feedback in ways that are exceptional, and he is a leader, stepping in to support and coach our new principals.”
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By 01/20/2021
The youngest students of the Shoreline Unified School District are back in classrooms for the first time in 10 months, and that’s just one of many moving parts at West Marin’s largest school district this month. Employees are getting vaccinated, Covid-19 testing efficacy has been thrown into doubt and administrators are still hashing out plans for every scenario: What happens if a teacher falls ill? How will quarantined students receive instruction? When would a class revert to distance learning?
“Everyone is trying to come up with solutions to problems they’ve never encountered,” superintendent Bob Raines said. “It’s the nature of the strangeness of this time.”