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Gearing up for the new school year, Santa Barbara and Goleta educators received an inspirational presentation from UCLA Professor of Education Dr. Pedro Noguera, a critically acclaimed scholar and speaker on race, equity and education. [...]

As we prepare to launch the 2019-2020 school year, we’d like to share an important message with our education community. SB Unified’s mission is to prepare students for a world that has yet to be [...]

By Cassie Lancaster Well-Endowed Universities Are Eager to Admit and Fund Promising Students Something is missing from our conversation about college access and affordability for Santa Barbara students. Many colleges are more than willing — [...]

As the visionary undertaking of a $39 million renovation of Santa Barbara High School’s Peabody stadium heads toward completion, Dons across the community look forward to 21st century athletic facilities that will finally match the [...]

Santa Barbara Junior High School, 721 E. Cota Street 7/17/19 - 7/20/19 In a continued effort to make our campuses safe, the Santa Barbara Unified School District is cooperating with local emergency response agencies looking [...]

Santa Barbara, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education has appointed a new Public Information Officer, longtime local education writer and award-winning journalist Camie Barnwell. Barnwell - who begins her duties [...]

By Marissa Garcia, Santa Barbara Education Foundation According to Wikipedia, a secret ingredient is sometimes the component that “makes a noticeable difference in the way a product performs, looks or tastes.” For some students in [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

By Marissa Garcia, Santa Barbara Education Foundation I before e except after c. The k in “knot” is silent. Flip the letter b and it becomes d, while they look similar they sound different. “The [...]

The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education adopted a new mission, vision, and core values. The new statements move to focus and align the district with planning documents that drive school board decisions [...]

A first for Santa Barbara Unified School District, Summer XL extended learning opportunities give students more course options during the school year. Santa Barbara Unified School District is offering its own summer extended learning, also [...]

By Marissa Garcia, Santa Barbara Education Foundation As Director Jocelyn Tipple gracefully cuts the air with her arms, hands, and fingers, she controls the tempo from students who are joined together to decipher the same [...]

Dr. Glazer’s life story comes full circle, the new principal returns to the first place she began her life in the United States Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education named Kip Glazer, Ed.D [...]