Solar School Snapshot: Starr King Elementary
“A School With A View”
By Glen Kizer.
Starr King Elementary School is in San Francisco, California and is one of the newest installations in the PG&E Solar Schools Program. We will do a lot more with this school later on, but for now I want to share something with you about the setting for this fantastic school. Sure the Principal is great. His name is Chris Rosenberg and under his leadership the school has one numerous awards. Sure the teachers are great. Our primary “solar” instructor is Steven Tamsky (that is him with the guitar) and he is one of the nicest people you will ever talk to. But it is the view from that school that I cannot believe.
It sits on Potrero Hill. Potrero Hill is an actual hill in San Francisco and yet it gives you the feeling that it is some remote land. When you walk out the front door of the school you can see the Golden Gate Bridge off in the distance where the Pacific Ocean meets the SF Bay. When you turn to the left you can see Candlestick Park where the SF Giants play baseball along the southern part of the SF Bay. In 1835 there were cattle grazing on this hill and when you look around you can believe it. It is a wonderful spot in the middle of this huge city.
Mr. Tamsky is going to write a blog story when he returns to school this fall, but I wanted to give you all a few pictures of this wonderful school in the San Francisco Unified School District. PG&E paid for the entire cost of the project including teacher training. The view is free.
