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Tam Wins Golden Ribbon Award

By Maddie Asch ♦ Jun 4, 2017

Tamalpais High school was awarded the Gold Ribbon award by the California Department of Education (CDE) on April 18. “The [award] seeks to recognize outstanding educational programs and practices,”...

LoRayne Ortega Moves Up From MVMS

By Daniel Zwiebach ♦ Sep 12, 2014

LoRayne Ortega moved from Mill Valley Middle School (MVMS) across the street to Tam this year to teach English 1/2 and AP Comp. Ortega has taught middle school and junior high for 12 years, but says that...

Michael Rawlins Brings Environmental Awareness to Tam

By Marina Furbush ♦ Sep 11, 2014

Michael Rawlins was hired as a Social Studies teacher, currently teaching freshman core, at Tam this year. Previously he taught at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. "Tam I think is a fantastic...

Sophomore Classes Set Out to Change the World

By Haley Fretes ♦ Jun 10, 2013

Since mid-April, the Chamberlin-Kurita-Ditz sophomore Core classes have been working on an assignment entitled “The Change-the-World Project” in which students are to identify an issue that they are...

Briefly: Sophomores Attend Oregon Shakespeare Festival

By Elizabeth Archer ♦ Jun 3, 2013

Twenty-four sophomore students from social studies teacher Jon Hartquist and English teacher Mike Levinson’s Core classes traveled to Ashland, Oregon for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival on May 3-6. The...

Core program completes first two-year cycle

By Natasha Harvey ♦ Sep 29, 2012

After concluding the first two years of the Core program, students and faculty have differing opinions on its progress. The Core program, which began in 2010, is an integrated program for freshman and...

English and Social Studies Core program continues

By Sophia Ellingson ♦ Oct 24, 2011

This fall marks the second year of Tam’s Core Program for freshmen and sophomores. Core is a system that teams up one English teacher and one Social Studies teacher for two consecutive years. The...