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Kyrene Elementary School District District adopts 2008-09 budget
Tempe Elementary School District Scales tech teachers learn over summer  Scales Technology Academy kindergarten teacher Karen McKenna and second-grade teacher Kimberly Beck eagerly learn about integrating technology into all classroom subjects from Apple trainer (photo by Tempe Elementary Schools). Teachers for the new Scales Technology Academy spent several days this summer inside of a classroom. Trainers from Apple taught the teachers advanced methods to infuse technology into all classroom subjects. The teachers refined their skills and developed new ones that they practiced during the summer. Scales Technology Academy will have technology integrated into every subject. Every student°Xkindergarten through fifth-grade°Xwill have a laptop to use for the schoolwork. Enrollment is free and open to all children in the Valley. Learn more about Scales Technology Academy at www.scalestechnologyacademy.org New school principals named The Tempe Elementary School District announced the following new principals for the 2008-09 school year: _ Dr. Deborah Cotton has been named principal for Wood Elementary. She has served in a variety of education roles, and most recently worked as an education program specialist for the Arizona Department of Education. _ Rey Cruz is moving across Tempe to serve as the new principal of Curry Elementary. He comes from Fees Middle School where he worked for four years as principal. Mark Eley will takeover as principal at Laird Elementary. Eley taught at the elementary level for 11 years and comes to Laird from the Arizona Department of Education, where he worked as the Reading First Director of Implementation. _ Barry Fritch has been named Hudson Elementary Principal. Fritch comes to Tempe from Golden, Colo., where he has worked as a principal, assistant principal, and student services coordinator. _ Tracy Harvester will serve as principal at Bustoz Elementary. Harvester brings with her 14 years experience in education. She has spent the last four years working in the Mesa School District. _ Frank Klajda moves to Fees Middle School as principal. He has spent the past six years at Laird Elementary School in the same role. _ Wendy Reeck is moving to Holdeman Elementary to work as principal. She comes to Holdeman from Wood Elementary where she worked for the past five years, most recently as principal. _ Julie Schroeder was named Thew Elementary School principal. Schroeder has 13 years of experience as a principal and assistant principal and nine years as a classroom teacher. She most recently worked in the South Kitsap School District in Port Orchard, Wash. Tempe Union High School District Four students, teachers spend summer at ASU While many of their peers were off enjoying summer holiday, 58 talented and dedicated Valley high school students and teachers engaged in solving real-world problems alongside Biodesign Institute scientists as part of Arizona°¶s largest high school bioscience internship program at Arizona State University. Among them were: Corona del Sol student Katherine Cai and teacher Lynnette Chapman; Marcos de Niza student Parker Abel and teacher Cheri Kinney; Marcos de Niza student Lauren Johnston and teacher Michael Lee; and McClintock High student Lyndsey Edgerton and teacher Stephanie King. In all, 24 high schools in 14 districts with existing or emerging biotechnology programs were each invited to send a teacher to participate in the internship program. The teachers, in turn, helped select students for the paid six-week internship. °ßBy including teachers for the first time in our internship program, we are helping them introduce more students to potential bioscience careers than ever before, with a potential impact on more than 4,000 Arizona high school students in the coming academic year,°® said Richard Fisher, Biodesign Institute director of Educational Outreach. °ßThe timing couldn°¶t have been better. As more Arizona high schools develop biotechnology programs, teachers can use their Biodesign experience to bolster their expertise and curriculum development.°® Each student/teacher team worked on a research project tackling a pressing societal problem, ranging from decontamination of groundwater to building nanostructures for diagnostics or working on cures for infectious diseases and cancer. Each student/teacher pair also was mentored by a Biodesign researcher who supervised their day-to-day progress. The daily exposure to the large research teams and world-class facilities of the institute gave the interns an in-depth introduction to the career of a research scientist. |
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