Dear SBMS Families,
As many of you know, and announced in an email from Jim last week, Jim Brady is stepping down as Assistant Head of School at the end of this school year. We are grateful for his tremendous experience and years of leadership and service to our school, and we're very happy that he will be
helping with the transition in leadership while also leading trips and teaching seminars next year.
We are excited to announce that we have hired a new Assistant Head of School! Bianca Vega, who currently serves as Middle School Assistant Principal at The Colombus School, will be joining the SBMS family for the 2018-19 school year.
As a native of Santa Barbara, Bianca attended Marymount and graduated from SB High School. She went to Stanford University and earned her Master’s Degree in Education from Loyola Marymount University. Bianca has been an educator for the past 13 years in public, charter and independent schools in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Thailand, Mexico and Colombia.
For the past three years she has been the Assistant Principal for the Middle School at The Colombus School in Colombia, providing leadership to its 350 students and their families. Bianca is also a firm believer and leader in Outdoor Education and currently leads service-oriented trips the desert region of Colombia. Bianca believes in providing students with real world scenarios and opportunities to apply what they learn while simultaneously developing resilience, leadership, and a higher self-esteem. Read more about Bianca
here
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We are excited to welcome Bianca to our family and look forward to her help in elevating our school and the programs we provide to our students, families and staff. Please say hi and introduce yourself when you see Bianca on campus this summer!
With gratitude,
Brian McWilliams
Head of School
