JOB OPPORTUNITY AT KIDDO! Kiddo! is looking for an energetic person with strong database skills who is passionate about quality education in our schools to be our Database Assistant. Responsibilities include entering gift receipts and pledges, updating donor data, and …
Meet Global Studies Coordinator Rod Septka
Learn how the Mill Valley School District will be going global By Candace Murphy Kiddo! Staff Say “Global Studies,” and for a lot of parents, memories of learning how Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination sparked World War I might come to …
Meet District Tech Coach Kate Sprague!
by Candace Murphy, Kiddo! Parent Volunteer It’s hard to believe that Kate Sprague, Mill Valley School District’s new technology coach, has only been in action for about a year now. Because if you ask her, her days are sometimes only …
Arts in Mind | Jackie LaLanne: All Children are Artists
If you or your child has taken an art class at Edna Maguire, Old Mill, Park, or Strawberry Point School since 1990, then you probably know Jackie LaLanne. Jackie is an inspired and original art teacher who, since 1998, has …
Arts in Mind | Mill Valley Music Teacher Phoebe Dong
By Angela Barnett and Suz Lipman When word got out that the Mill Valley Schools were in need of a new music teacher to teach stringed instruments, it was Kiddo! founder Trisha Garlock who thought to call the New Century …
Blanche Thebom Trust Funds Musical Instrument Purchase
At first glance, it’s hard to see what the renowned operatic mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom, whose turns as Fricka, Carmen, and Amneris defined those roles for half a century, has in common with the kindergartners playing xylophones in Lori Adessa’s music …
Featured Business Partners June 2018
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The Wonderful World of Nora Hunter
After 14 years, Choral Program Co-Pioneer Leaves District. By Candace Murphy Kiddo! Staff The idea grew organically, like so many of Nora Hunter’s brainstorms. It was the first day of school, Superintendent Paul Johnson was talking to all of …
Are You a Better Broadsword Fighter Than a Fourth Grader?
Kiddo!-funded teacher grant affords William Shakespeare Unit at Old Mill School and has kids studying tragedies, comedies and some pretty epic soliloquies. Oh yeah, and broadsword fighting. By Candace Murphy Kiddo! Staff It’s mid-morning on the Old Mill School playground, …