Today we had a community member shadow the principal and become the " principal for the day".

It was a positive experience, we at Thurgood Marshall are doing important and exciting work and it is crucial that we get our story out.

More information about our visitor can be found at www.joelyoung.org

Congratulations Mrs. Greene

Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that one of our teachers, Emily Greene, has won a $25,000 grant for your school through the Chevron Classroom Challenge!

Ms. Greene submitted a STEM-focused classroom project to DonorsChoose.org that demonstrated a commitment to excellence and innovation that their panel of judges felt was above and beyond the many submissions they received from across Contra Costa and Alameda counties. The Chevron Classroom Challenge grant of $25,000 will be awarded to our school for use in supporting more STEM academic programs, just like the one submitted by Ms. Greene.

In addition to receiving the grant, Chevron will also be recognizing Ms. Greene at a Chevron Classroom Challenge Awards Dinner at the Concord Hilton.


To further acknowledge our school’s commitment to excellence and innovation in education, Chevron will be sending us a banner to recognize Thurgood Marshall Elementary School as a Chevron Classroom Challenge winner.

Way To Go Mrs. Greene!

Library Opening

Our PTO Vice President

Ann Gallagher, Mrs. Woods-Cadiz and Ms. Ward

Thurgood Marshall

Books Books and More Books

Our Wonderful Librarian

The Ladies of the South Bay Chapter of Links Inc.

New Tables

New Book Cases

On Saturday, October 2, 2010 Thurgood Marshall Elementary will be having a ribbon ceremony to celebrate the opening of their newly remodeled library.

Friends and family are invited to come out view our new library. We will be having a welcoming pancake breakfast at 9:00 AM. The ribbon cutting will begin at 10:30 PM

In attendance will be members of the South Bay Chapter of Links inc. and Officers from Thurgood Marshall PTO.

Garden and Grounds Work

Thank you Faith Network and Oakland Food Connection for doing such a wonderful job preparing our garden and playground for the opening week of school. This helped to support our health and wellness focus

The Marshall Story

Did you know?

Thurgood Marshall Elementary Students are 27% identified speech and language handicap and 85% percent of students were free and reduced students?

In spite of these daunting numbers we increased the number of students who were succeeding in math by almost 13 percent and decreased the number of students who were failing in math by almost 12 percent. In addition, our API grew by 18 points.

Over half of our students participate in in a fully comprehensive intervention and enrichment program that increases the student's instructional days to 90 additional

Our students have access to dance, choral, instrumental, Spanish, library research, cooking, and gardening.

We focus on student mastery of the Math and English Language Arts standards and provide a rigorous academic schedule for all of our students.



If we measured the level of proficiency of our children without Speech and Language challenges we would meet the state requirement for ELA

Get to know us and then spread the good news!

Finding Funding

In this era of decreased funding we have been able maintain an environment of a caring community, academic rigor, and familial support.

Maintaining this is not easy and we have had to be creative. One of these creative ideas is our Harvest Time Block Party. October 29th, we will open our site to have a block party. Come out and lend a hand, call the 510-639-3275 for further information.

Opening night of PTO

Last night was our first PTO meeting of the 2010-2011 school year. Our systems, structures, future goals and financial standing were discussed.

Yearly goals include the reestablishment of Dad's Club and Grandfather's Club, engagement of our neighbors in our community schools design, funding of the Principal's staff, faculty and student rewards program, and the reestablishment of our room parent program.