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The Creekside School is currently hiring creative, experienced and passionate professionals to join our team. These are highly collaborative position that are ideal for someone who can utilize their leadership abilities and creativity to help students achieve their highest potential.
Join Our Team
The Creekside School is currently hiring creative, experienced and passionate professionals to join our team. These are highly collaborative position that are ideal for someone who can utilize their leadership abilities and creativity to help students achieve their highest potential.
📅 Sunday, April 26, 2026
⏰4:00 PM-6:30 PM
📍 Louis B. Mayer Auditorium
Mark your calendars. The magic is coming back to the stage!
We can’t wait to see you at the BETTER TOGETHER 2026, a talent showcase and community celebration for Creekside students!
After an electrifying performance last year, we are honored to announce that America’s Got Talent Winner Kodi Lee is back by popular demand! He will be joined by our returning host, the energetic Golden State Warriors Emcee, Franco Finn, for an unforgettable afternoon of talent, shared joy, music, and support for all our students.
Doors open at 3:00PM and the Main Program starts at 4:00PM. Join us early for beverages and light bites,
and explore our community tables and Mystery Bag booth!
Every ticket you purchase and moment you share with us supports Creekside’s mission to provide an irreplaceable home, lifelong belonging, and educational resources for students living with profound autism.
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Upcoming Events!
BETTER TOGETHER
Hammer Theatre
101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose, CA 95113
Thursday, June 5, 2025
VIP Reception
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hammer Theater Rooftop
Main Program
7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Hammer Theater Sobrato Auditorium
The Creekside School proudly presents “Better Together: A Talent Showcase benefitting The Creekside School.”
The event will take place on Thursday, June 5, 2025 at the Hammer Theatre in downtown San Jose.
A VIP Reception will take place from 6PM-7PM on the Hammer Theatre rooftop, featuring live music, food, and drinks.
Following this will be the Main Program. Our amazing lineup includes Kodi Lee, singer-songwriter and winner of
America’s Got Talent Season 14, David Gerard, magician and mentalist, Andrew Orolfo, comedian, and sjDANCEco, contemporary dance ensemble. Franco Finn, MC and TV Personality for the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors,
will be our Master of Ceremonies and Live Auctioneer.
Proceeds from the event will help The Creekside School continue its mission of improving the quality of life of students with profound autism and their families, directly supporting the expansion of our enrollment and the launch of our much-anticipated Adult Day Program, reinforcing our commitment to lifelong support for our students.
FUNDRAISER UPDATE
Thank you to those who were able to join us at our In A Different Key, movie event. We had an amazing evening screening the film for guests and spending time with the filmmakers Caren Zucker and John Donvan. We are honored to have shared such a unique experience with supporters of Creekside.
It was a very successful event! Our Fund-A-Need paddle raiser at the end of the evening yielded $9,200 towards our community vehicles, $8,100 for new tablets/technology and $4,650 for the purchase of new occupational therapy/gym equipment. We are grateful to those who were able to attend as well as others who gave their support online to help us achieve our overall fundraising goal of $40,000! Wow! So incredible!
We certainly left that evening feeling energized and eager to continue the conversation about how to build a strong community around the Creekside School students and the greater Autism community.
OTHER NEWS
COVID-19 has been top of mind at our school this fall (as it should be), and we are very proud of our students and staff for their diligence about wearing masks and/or shields, handwashing, social distancing and staying outdoors as much as possible.
We were eager, in spite of all of that juggling, to not delay our long-planned professional development with the research staff at TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication Handicapped Children), a nationally recognized program at the University of North Carolina.
Through virtual sessions that began in August and concluded in December, we received valuable advice on ways to fine tune the physical organization of our classrooms and visual cues we use throughout our campus to help our students navigate their school days.
We enjoyed learning about the TEACCH work systems and how to apply them to our students to increase their flexibility, self confidence and independence.
Our thanks to the TEACCH staff for the very productive learning sessions.
OUR COVID SUMMER
We created an in-person learning ecosystem that exceeded Santa Clara County COVID-19 protocols for summer camps and programs. The diligence of students, staff, and their respective families resulted in a great summer of learning and zero cases of COVID-19.
BUS TRIP!
A wonderful excursion to the California Academy of Sciences. Our first all-Creekside, everyone-onboard-the-bus school trip!
GAME ON!
Our inaugural fundraiser was a rollicking success as dinner patrons tested their moxie in highly-competitive rounds of pantomimes and song titles, all while learning about our amazing students, their challenges and triumphs.
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FOUNDER RECOGNITION
Creekside co-founder Marimo Berk received The Isabelle Lemon Community Spirit Award. Each year, the Giants Community Fund recognizes one volunteer who exemplifies the commitment to community service and can-do spirit of Isabelle Lemon (far left), longtime KNBR promotions director and inductee into the Radio Hall of Fame.
COMMUNITY
FUN DAY
Special needs students from area schools enjoyed a morning of games, activities, sweets and treats. Our thanks to volunteers from Google, Motorola and our neighborhood who helped make this a very special day for our students and guests.
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RIBBON CUTTING & OPEN HOUSE
Creekside welcomes the community to its Open House and Ribbon Cutting Celebration. Oak Grove School District Superintendent Jose Manzo and Creekside co-founder Marimo Berk cut the ribbon to open the campus to guests, as San Jose City, Oak Grove Board of Trustees and Creekside leadership look on.