Welcome to Tassajara Hills' website. This is just a snapshot of the vibrant and stimulating 720 student California Distinguished School and California Fine Arts Distinguished School.

Tassajara Hills offers an environment that is caring, safe, supportive, interactive, and nurturing, both physically and emotionally. A "Life Skills" program and a "Talk it Out" program are both integrated into the ongoing fabric of the school's structure. We respect and value diversity. We encourage parent involvement. We strive towards an environment where children and adults look forward to coming, feel welcome, feel they belong, feel supported, feel respected, and enjoy being on a regular basis.

Tassajara Hills' academic program is standards based where we strive to help all children meet or exceed State and District content standards. Using differentiated teaching strategies our fully credential teachers tailor their instruction to meet the educational needs of each child from the lowest to the highest, recognizing that not all children learn the same way, nor do all teachers teach in the same manner. We set high standards for all students and look for ways to help every child succeed as we see the talent and potential in each and every one of them. There is much collaboration amongst grade level teachers and support staff to develop achievable, developmentally appropriate learning opportunities which are applicable to real life experiences. At the same time we train students to take on more responsibility for their own learning, to set goals, assess their progress, and to see learning as a lifelong process.

Tassajara Hills is fortunate to have the following specialists and support staff: fulltime science teacher, fulltime music teacher, Spanish prep. teachers, P.E. teacher, media coordinator/librarian, technology specialist, a full Special Ed. department consisting of Resource Specialists, speech specialist, psychologist, and other specialists depending upon student's IEP's, a one day a week counselor through the local "Discovery" Center, and classroom paraeducators completely paid by parent donations through the Tassajara Hills Foundation. Our parent community is actively involved through PTA, Foundation, School Site Council, Technology Committee, in the classrooms, and on many ad hoc committees.

If you were to visit Tassajara Hills you would see a school where children appear happy while on task and learning, where there is a balance of activities including field trips and many fine arts productions, where parents are actively involved in classrooms and other supportive functions, and an organized but active environment where children come first.

- Luann Duggan, Principal