Smart lab yields smart kids
Keeping adolescent scholars engaged is a daily struggle for middle school teachers.
How effects of Prop. 206 will be felt by area schools
For minimum wage employees, the recent passage of Prop. 206 represents an increase from $8.05 to $10 an hour, hopefully to put more jingle in workers’ pockets.
‘We the People’: Winners all
Most people know Corona del Sol for its dominant boys’ basketball team. Winning a state championship the past four years in a row can do that.
WEB, ‘Where Everyone Belongs’
The growing nationwide program adopted at Kyrene middle schools says it all: We're a place “Where Everyone Belongs."
Kyrene budgets partially restored
Governing Board members have agreed to provide some financial relief to budget-squeezed Kyrene schools with the restoration of $300,000, which should be available in January.
Arredondo teachers deliver surprising ‘congrats’ to students
Arredondo took note of all its students who had met or exceeded their winter testing goals and created small posters that staff members would hang up on the doors of the students’ homes as a surprise.
Full-disclosure policy on personnel issues: Interesting idea, but is it one we really want?
We got a call from Dr. David Schauer the other day, wanting to make sure we had all the available details regarding the seemingly...
Marcos students do a good turn
By Diana Whittle
The Empty Bowls project in Tempe is more than just a fundraising endeavor to benefit needy families: it’s also a chance for...
Niños staff unveils plan to boost student achievement
Story by Diana Whittle
Student achievement in Kyrene
schools is closely aligned with
the performance of a school’s
administrator and teachers, with both
increasingly required to work as a
team.
“We’ve...
They may be ‘Junior’ Achievers but what they achieved was grown-up, indeed
Junior Achievement’s “18 Under 18 Awards” gives outstanding teens in Arizona the recognition that they deserve for their display of leadership, community service and entrepreneurial spirit.