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New Co-Principal of Bayside MLK Academy Welcomed to Marin City
Eveta Jackson, 37, has been chosen as a co-principal to oversee Bayside Martin Luther King Jr Academy in Marin City.
Eveta Jackson, 37, has been chosen as a co-principal to oversee Bayside Martin Luther King Jr Academy in Marin City.
(The other co-principal is David Finnane who will oversee the Willow Creek Academy in Sausalito.)
Jackson, who taught English at a middle school for eight years and served as the assistant principal at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa for one year, was approved by the Sausalito Marin City School District board this week after a wide search involving three rounds of interviews.
Her salary will be $142,753.
“Some of Jackson’s many strengths are in multi-tiered systems of support and restorative justice, COVID operations and Title IX compliance. She is also a very strong instructional leader,” SMCD Superintendent Dr. Itoco Garcia told the Marin Independent Journal.
Marin City welcomed Jackson on the afternoon August 8, 2021, with a luncheon at the MC Arts Gallery in Marin City.
People came up to introduce themselves to Jackson. Oshalla Diana Marcus was the first and talked about her Gallery, and how we need to come together as a community. Other community members included Ayanna Morgan Woodard, Nancy Johnson, Alexis Wise, Sharika Gregory, Terrie Green, Florence Williams, Ricardo Moncrief, Dr. Shirley Thorton, Lisa Bennett, Bonnie Hough, Yasmine McGrane, Chantel Walker, Bettie Hodges and others.
Pastor Jonathan Logan spoke and shared about how he knew Jackson for 32 years from when she was a little girl. Logan and Jackson’s father-in-law, Rev John Jackson of Santa Rosa, are best friends and both shared many things together, such as preaching in each other churches, and time with each other’s family.
Logan said that Jackson is an “outstanding individual in everything that she does,” and that “Marin City will be tremendously blessed with her presence here.”
Jackson and Logan later prayed for Jackson.
Jackson thanked everyone, the community and the whole process. She was impressed that the questions that were asked during the interviews show that Marin City is far down the road in terms of the equity in the schools, and that the education theory is actually happening here. She wants to honor the work that the community has put in the schools. She said she feels like a bridge to unify the two communities of students and staff together because of their commonality. She wants the students at the two campuses to be connected, to feel they belong to a community because they have much in common, and to engaged with each other in their classes.
She feels great to partner with Marin City, but she can’t and won’t do it alone, and desires the help and participation from the community.
Indie B closed the program with a song.
