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By Marissa Garcia, Santa Barbara Education Foundation Students with reading differences need early intervention to continue their academic success. Two years ago, the Santa Barbara Unified School District addressed these concerns by implementing a pilot program at Harding Elementary School. The program, the Literacy Project, started out by serving only 28 students and since then [...]

Santa Barbara, Calif. - Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education named Analese Alvarez, Edward Gomez, and Marshall Webb as Deans of Student Engagement. All three will begin their new roles on July 1, 2019. Analese Alvarez (San Marcos High School) “Analese Alvarez is an incredible addition to Santa Barbara Unified leadership team” said [...]

Santa Barbara, Calif. - Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education named Elena Garcia-Yoshitomi as the next Principal of McKinley elementary school. Garcia-Yoshitomi, a Doctoral candidate at California Lutheran University, has over a decade of public education experience as a teacher, instructional coach, and site administrator with Conejo Valley Unified School District and Oxnard [...]

  By Marissa Garcia, Santa Barbara Education Foundation Learning starts in the classroom. But not just for students, for parents too. As a parent volunteer in a kindergarten classroom, Kate Parker found herself in love with learning how to help five-year-olds read, understanding why teachers teach the way they do and bonding with other students’ [...]