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 third 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.


 

PAGE, Ariz. – Jan. 17, 2008 – Classroom stress isn’t a problem faced only by students that have forgotten their homework or neglected to prepare for an exam. Page, Ariz. 5th grade teacher Chuck Serventi found himself experiencing stress firsthand several years ago while attempting to help students of varying ability and intelligence levels keep up with a challenging mathematics curriculum...(read more)
Story: 5th Grade Teacher Uses Technology to Teach Math

PEORIA ELEMENTARY LINKS READING TO FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY. PEORIA, Ariz. – Peoria Elementary School Principal Phil Stanfield found himself wrapped in a seemingly endless rope of colorful paper chains, tying his hands and feet to render him useless. And he was joyful about it...(read more)
Story: Reading Linked to Families and Community

KINGMAN -  If a holiday is fast approaching, there's one thing you can be sure of - the students in Terry Dolan's White Cliffs Middle School art classes are hard at work on some type of project marking the season...(read more)
Story: Caring Art Teacher

Hands-On Learning:  Cienega Construction Technology Class Builds Preschool Facility Tucson, Arizona - When students walk into Michael Keck's construction technology class, they drop their textbooks and pick up hammers, measuring tapes and tool belts...(read more)
Story: Hands-On Learning

'Greenest' school is awarded $50K - Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres congratulated Civano Elementary School students on TV Friday for winning the "Go Green and Small with 'All' "contest that highlighted the "greenest" school in the United States...(read more)
Story: Greenest school is awarded $50K