Thank you for your interest in the great things happening in Arizona’s public schools. The AZ Public Schools Making a Difference Every Day campaign was created to tell the good stories and successes happening every day in Arizona’s public schools. This is the first email newsletter of the 2008 campaign.

Find out more about AZ Public Schools Making a Difference Every Day at www.azschoolsmakeadifference.org

The full campaign—including TV advertisements, regular email newsletters and more—will continue in 2008 through the end of the school year.

 



Ask your friends and colleagues to log onto www.azschoolsmakeadifference.org and sign up. They will be one of the first to hear about the campaign and good things happening in public education around the state. The more people we have signed up, the more impact is possible!


We are looking for impressive stories about how Arizona’s teachers, students and schools are making a difference every day. Log onto www.azschoolsmakeadifference.org and submit your stories.


 

Four Arizona educators have been honored by the National School Board Association (NSBA) for their vision and passion in utilizing technology to enhance education...(read more) 
Story: Nationwide in Education Technology

Paradise Valley School District Horizon High School has been selected to receive The University of Arizona’s 2007 Arizona Cup Award. The Arizona Cup is awarded annually to the Arizona high school with 30 or more of its graduates earning the highest cumulative grade point average during their freshman year at the university...(read more)
Story: Horizon High School Honored

Each year, Andrea Meyer, an English teacher at Mingus Union High School, along with teachers Alyssa Majewski and James Ball plan, organize and chaperone Honors/AP English and Drama students to the Shakespeare Festival in Southern Utah...(read more)
Story: Students Share Shakespeare

Kenneth Ziegler has earned national acclaim as both a NASA MESSENGER Educator Fellow and as a 2007 recipient of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Thomas J. Brennan Award.  The result of his lofty pursuit? One top pupil is becoming a rising academic star    himself...(read more)
Story: Astronomy Teacher Helps Incarcerated Students

Good Nutrition Wins the Grand Prize Head coach Deb Moore and her Sunrise Mountain volleyball team won a $15,000 grand prize scholarship from Energy Athletics Strength (EAS) for implementing performance nutrition into the team's program and fostering community spirit...(read more)
Story: Good Nutrition Wins the Grand Prize