Silver Oak High school is a FREE Public Montessori Charter school, opening Monday August 26th 2013, with 9th and 10th grades. Our founding group is a very dedicated community which is working very hard to keep moving forward, overcome lots of challenges and be ready to provide a Montessori environment for adolescents in Hayward.
After visiting numerous sites, the decision was that Silver Oak will be located at the Sunset campus, 22100 Princeton St, in Hayward. It has great amenities for High school students (big gymnasium, athletic field with track, and nice multi-purpose room with stage) and we are still negotiating which parts of the campus we will occupy. This is a short term facility choice and we will continue our investigation with a long term vision to hopefully one day have a site big enough to host both Golden Oak and Silver Oak.
Silver Oak is very fortunate to have found the perfect head of school! Her name is Elaine Blasi. She brings 37 years of experience in education, including 22 years of administrative and teaching skills. She founded a private Montessori preschool in Maui in 1991 and kept expanding it till 8th grade. She has also completed her Secondary I and II Montessori training (meaning Middle school and High school) and has started the first Montessori High school in Hawaii! You will be able to learn more about her, by reading her bio on our web site soon. She will also be present at the July 11th informational meeting. Teacher interviews and hiring are well underway. We will share more about the staff on Silver Oak’s web site as soon as possible.We also got lots of questions regarding calendar, schedule, curriculum, so we are working on publishing information on those areas as well.
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Here’s a good article about Montessori High school: http://www.montessori.org/sitefiles/Montessorihighschool.pdf
Our next informational meeting for prospective parents is July 11th at 7pm at GO. We will also be at Hayward street fairs this summer (July 18th and Aug 15th).
