San Marin Grad Earns Place at Cannes Film Festival Novato, CA…San Marin High School Class of 2013, Nik Oczkus, had ‘an amazing time’ at the Cannes Film Festival for two weeks in May. Nik’s 4-minute film, “To the Writers,” was one of the top four films that won the San Francisco State University Campus Movie [...]
Novato, CA… On May 31 at 12:50 pm, Novato High School is hosting an inauguration of their Dreamers Mural. The Mural will be placed on the outside wall facing the parking lot at the Novato High Library for all to see and appreciate. The Dreamers Mural came to life through a School Fuel Enrichment [...]
Novato, CA… The Novato Unified School District announced that Melissa Diaz will become the Principal at Lynwood Elementary School effective July 1, 2018, leading the school in its transition to a Spanish/English dual immersion school beginning in the 2018/19 school year. Ms. Diaz has been serving as the District’s English Learner Coordinator for the past [...]
Eighth-grade students in their English classes at San Jose Middle School created a mural of butterflies for the school through their participation in The Butterfly Project. Students in Ms. Deborah Baraban, Ms. Anne Schaeffer and Mr. Michael DeNubila’s English classes read Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, and then learned about the Holocaust which included learning about [...]
NUSD is committed to environmental conservation and sustainable practices. In an effort to better serve the community while saving trees, all schools in the Novato Unified School District switched to digital flyer delivery with Peachjar in the summer of 2017. Since then, NUSD has saved 1,115,062 sheets of paper and 134 trees! This effort has [...]
Community Input Needed on Novato Unified’s Spending in LCAP Novato… The Novato Unified School District needs community input – parent, staff, student – on its spending plan in the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). NUSD is hosting a Community Meeting [...]
Novato Teacher Inducted into UC Irvine Hall of Fame Howard Gersh brings college-level animation training to Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School Novato…Novato High School Digital Art & Animation Teacher Howard Gersh was honored by the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) on March 2 as the [...]
MSA Jazz combos take top honors, jazz bands and choirs deliver outstanding performances NUSD is celebrating its music programs this week after bands and choirs from Marin School of the Arts (MSA) at Novato High School and San Jose Middle School gave outstanding performances at the Folsom Jazz Festival, one of the largest music competitions in [...]
In September, the Novato Unified School District received a generous donation of 450 student backpacks from Costco and two large boxes of paper, pencils and highlights, etc. from the Dollar Tree. The supplies were distributed to NUSD schools by Karen Valentine, Coordinator of Student Services. " The donation of backpacks from Costco and the school [...]
Novato…San Ramon Elementary School is adopting a classroom in the Houston area to demonstrate caring in real world situations by providing much needed supplies to the school since Hurricane Harvey hit. This next week, September 15-22, 2017, San Ramon has adopted Jacinto City Elementary School in Houston, a 74-year old school in a residential [...]
