Principal Brent Brown joined Corona del Sol students and teachers Dec. 3 when they rang bells at Fry’s Marketplace to benefit the Salvation Army. Katie Wilkinson, a junior at the high school, started a campus Red Kettle Club, believed to be the first official club of its type inAmerica. “I chose Salvation Army over other [...]
Gerri Shaw, longtime principal at Aprende Middle School in west Chandler, has announced her plans to retire at the end of the current school year. Shaw has worked at the school 18 years, including 10 years as principal. She faced particular challenges only two weeks into the school year, dealing with the after-effects of one [...]
Last week, by a narrow margin, Kyrene voters reauthorized a Capital Override that will allow Kyrene to continue to fund technology based needs and programs without exerting further strain on the district’s Operating Budget which has experienced a decline of over 10.5% and $11.3 million since it peaked at $106.4 million in 2008-09. We thank [...]
Desert Garden Montessori, at the northwest corner of Warner Road and the I-10, is not your average infant- to middle-school. For one, you’ll notice an all-organic garden as you enter the back of the campus, used for the students’ daily lunch periods. You’ll also immediately detect the different teaching style for students, allowing them to [...]
According to the American College of Gastroenterology, more than 60 million American adults suffer from heartburn at least once a month, while 15 million adults experience heartburn every day. Although heartburn is the most common symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), patients may experience other symptoms, including: hoarseness or laryngitis, frequent swallowing, asthma or asthma-like [...]
Noah, a fifth-grader at Mirada Elementary School, shows his dad, Steve Lanouette, various projects he’s completed this year via an electronic portfolio he spent the past weeks compiling for parent/teacher conferences. Parent-teacher conferences took on a new look last month for fifth graders at Kyrene de la Mirada Elementary School, with students taking the lead [...]
In the not so recent past, local elementary schools had computer labs filled only with buzzing Macintosh computers with games that would seem weirdly ancient to today’s students. More astonishing to them would probably be the fact that the Internet didn’t exist, including such mass communication programs as Skype. Times have changed, though, and the [...]
When the subject of selling ads on the sides of Kyrene school buses first came up, we expressed our thoughts on the matter to district superintendent Dr. David Schauer and community education administrator Kelly Alexander, who had presented the Governing Board, at its request, with a proposal to hire a fulltime employee whose job [...]
Kyrene schools fell only one percentage point short of achieving the state’s highest rating for overall academic achievement, according to the Arizona Department of Education’s newest system utilizing standard letter grades instead of the previous method involving performance-level nomenclature. Using an A-F grading system, individual Kyrene schools earned mostly A and B grades, with a [...]
Students at Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary School got a patriotic presentation from Principal Christie Winkelmann during an assembly on Constitution Day, Friday Sept. 16, and were graced with the presence of Georgia Hier and others who are members of the Daughter’s of the American Revolution (DAR). Hier handed out small American Flags to all [...]
