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From the Director:
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Happy New Year! Here's What's New at Oak Hill:
We returned to school to a refurbished kitchen: a nearly completed outdoor stage, new shelving, a new dishwasher, new pots and pans and a complete kitchen reorganization. Thanks go out to the Home Depot team, plus kudos to our coordinator Arriel Adler, and to Michael Breard, Caitlin Long, 3 Iwaszewicz brothers, Seth Rosenfeld and Mele Perera for coming in over the winter break to help make it all happen.
The Hearts of Marin Awards Luncheon: Ken Paulk, Steve Nichols and Kevin Schaffer (pictured) represented our Corporate Community Service nominee Home Depot at the Awards Luncheon on January 10th. Although Kaiser Permanente won the prize, our nominee was well appreciated publicly and a good time was had by all.
- New Class Configurations for several students and teachers: Aidan and Philip moved to new classrooms, and garden teacher Arriel Adler will join the Buckeye classroom as Assistant Teacher on Monday. She takes the place of AJ Seliga, who took a position as development director for "At the Crossroads" in San Francisco, a program for homeless teens where he had been volunteering. We will miss him, yet we whole heartedly welcome Arriel and her experience in project based education.
- Mark Pitta will return as host of the 2013 Stand Up! event , moving this year to the Mill Valley Community Center. We will laugh with Mark and friends, and dance to the cover tunes of Olive and the Dirty Martinis! Save the Date: Friday, April 26th.
- Arts Education is coming to Oak Hill. We are currently in conversation with the Youth in Arts Mentor Artists Program, Autistry Studios, and former Oak Hill Creative Arts Therapist Lizzie Domash about providing a variety of art programs appropriate for our students over the spring semester. We will fill in the details when we have them, but one way or another we hope to be enriching our programs with student centered and hands-on music, drama and visual art in the coming weeks.
- A new classroom for Oak Hill: we're making a classroom in the Multi-Purpose area! The Giant Redwoods have seriously out- grown their little "classroom" next to Joy's office. Notice the quotation marks. Geoffrey Barker Architectural Planning is providing pro bono design and permitting work to prepare for dividing the multipurpose room where the linoleum now meets the carpet. Once completed, soon we hope, the room will be as big as any of our classrooms and provide plenty of space for those redwood-sized kiddos and their similarly sized teachers
- Parent Involvement at Oak Hill - are you interested? You are always welcome at Oak Hill. We have an active Transition Committee and a soon-to-be activated Stand Up Event Committee, and we always welcome helpers in the garden, as well as in the classroom, by arrangement with your teacher. We may well need help with construction of the new classroom, or with moving in. Just let us know and we'll find a place for you. All volunteers welcome.
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