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Alameda County

Berkeley/BUSD

  • Leconte Elementary School
  • Rosa Parks Elementary School
    Emeryville/EUSD
  • Anna B. Yates Elementary School
  • Emery Secondary
    Hayward/HUSD
  • Faith Ringgold School of the Arts & Sciences
    Oakland/OUSD
  • Sequoia Elementary School
  • Kaiser Elementary School

Marin County

Mill Valley/MVSD

  • Old Mill Elementary School
  • Park Elementary School
  • Edna Maguire Elementary School
  • San Rafael/Dixie USD
  • Marie Silviera Elementary School, Dixie USD

City & County of SF

  • Argonne Elementary School, Richmond
  • Buena Vista Elementary School, Potrero
  • Carmichael Elementary School, SOMA
  • Cesar Chavez Elementary School , Mission
  • Cobb Elementary School, Western Addition
  • Dianne Feinstein Elementary School, Parkside
  • Glen Park Elementary School, Glen Park
  • Grattan Elementary School, Cole Valley
  • Guadalupe Elementary School, Excelsior
  • Marshall Elementary School, Mission
  • McKinley Elementary School, Castro
  • New Traditions Elementary School, Pan Handle
  • Peabody Elementary School, Richmond
  • Redding Elementary School, Tenderloin
  • Sanchez Elementary School, Castro
  • Sherman Elementary School, Union Street
  • Commodore Sloat Elementary School, Balboa Terrace
  • Sunnyside Elementary School, Glen Park
  • Sutro Elementary School, Richmond
  • E.R. Taylor Elementary School, Vis. Valley
  • UCSF Child Life Dept Parnassus
  • West Portal Elementary School, West Portal
  • Yick Wo Elementary School, Russian Hill

Art Partners

The success of VTS in SF Bay Region is also due to the collaboration of the Bay Area's world-class museums and arts centers:

North Bay Region

Sonoma Valley USD

  • Dunbar Elementary School
  • El Verano Elementary School
  • Flowery Elementary School
  • Prestwood Elementary School
  • Sassarini Elementary School
  • The Presentation School
  • Sonoma County Schools

Bellevue USD

  • Bellevue Elementary
  • Meadowview Elementary
  • Kiwana Elementary
  • Taylor Mountain Elementary

Petaluma/ Old Adobe USD

  • Old Adobe Elementary School
  • La Trecera Elementary
  • Miwok Elementary School

Rohnert Park/Cotati Rohnert Park USD

  • Waldo-Rohnert Elementary School

The success of VTS in the North Bay is due to the support of our local museums as well as teachers and administrators spreading the word on the impact VTS has had on them, their students and their staff.


Sarah Lenoue
VTS Regional Coordinator, SF Bay
Email Sarah

Liz Harvey
VTS Regional Director, SF Bay
Email Liz

Robyn Muscardini
VTS Regional Director, Northern California
Email Robyn

Northern California Press

January 31, 2010
Sonoma Country Life
Click here to read the entire article.

November 2, 2009
Petaluma360.com
Linda Postenreider writes about the "Toast for Change" event at the Mystic Theater introducing Visual Thinking Strategies, hosted by Old Adobe School District Superintendent, Diane Zimmerman.

September 18, 2009
The Sonoma Valley Sun
Grounded in art education, Visual Thinking Strategies program helps create well-rounded, critically thinking students.

August 14, 2008
Sonoma News
Program Instills Visual Thinking
"A newly launched program at has [students] not only studying famous pieces of artwork, but also training [them] to draw inferences and think critically, which helps students excel in other subjects.

February 13, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
"Program at Elementary Schools Empowers Kids in 'Visual Thinking'"
by Kathleen Sullivan, Chronicle Staff Writer
As soon as the image appeared on the screen, three children swinging around a pole in front of a pile of rubble and a damaged building with gaping holes exposing wallpapered walls, several fifth-graders shot their hands into the air.