Among students and teachers, the best of the best are due to receive a deserved round of applause—and some significant financial recognition—on Monday, March 26. That’s when the Tempe Diablos’ 23rd annual Excellence in Education Awards are handed out teachers in the Tempe Elementary, Kyrene and Tempe Union High School districts for outstanding innovation in [...]
Longtime Kyrene del Cielo teacher Susan Bryant is one of nine Kyrene professionals this year to receive National Teacher Board Certification. “It took about year, although it can take up to three years to get your certification,” Bryant said. Bryant has been a first-grade teacher at Cielo for 20-plus years, and plans on staying there [...]
In the small gym at Corona del Sol High School, 60 students gathered for one reason: to learn tolerance from one another. The occasion is known as Awareness Day, a bi-annual event organized by the school’s Unity Club to raise awareness of prejudices, self-image, gender issues and teen suicide. For the past 14 years, generations [...]
As director of adult education for Tempe Union High School District, Vanda Salls understands that people sign up for the program for a variety of reasons. Some are unemployed, some under-employed. Some want to improve their situation at work and qualify for a promotion. Most want to make a better life for themselves and their [...]
Kyrene schools will continue to offer free all-day kindergarten, provided that no budget changes will be made to programs affecting the middle schools, according to a decision voted by the Kyrene Governing Board on Jan. 10. While the action brings a conclusion to months of discussion and study, parents concerned about this and other funding [...]
The news is shocking for parents and students. A new survey by the American Association of University Women reports that 48 percent of students in grades 7-12 have experienced some form of sexual harassment. It’s especially relevant now, following revelations at Penn State, where the actual abuse of children appears to have gone on within [...]
Kyrene schools are among the benefactors of a $200,000 “green” classroom being developed by United Fibers, which specializes in municipal recycling and manufacturing. The company unveiled its new recycling education center in conjunction with the celebration of America Recycles Day. The classroom is designed to help students in the Chandler and Kyrene school districts, along [...]
Kyrene Corridor Rotary Club President Norma McCormick presented a check to members of the MdN United Nations Club, (from left) Claire Sarsam, Megan Kelly, Jessica Bass and faculty sponsor Robert Owen-Jones. In a world of unsure futures, mass revolutions and global economic hurdles, one group of Marcos de Niza High School students is taking steps [...]
Registration is under way for parents hoping to enroll their children in Kyrene’s first Traditional Academy, which starts Aug. 6 at Sureño Elementary School. Signups will remain open until classes are full. Dr. Marianne Lescher, current principal at Mariposa Elementary School, will replace Dr. Jim Strogen as principal of Sureño in the 2011-12 school year. [...]
Editor’s note: Stephen Seall, father of one of Corona del Sol’s standout varsity football players, shares his observations about the season and what he sees as the way it helped shape the futures of those to whom the experience will always make them proud to have been Aztecs. My son recently completed his second season [...]
