Story: Tempe Teacher Showing Students the Importance of Giving Firsthand through Participation in Purina Weight Circle
Program
TUCSON – The Arizona Family and Consumer Science Educators Association
(FACS-Ed) presented Flowing Wells High School Culinary Arts teacher Yvonne Bernino with its 2009 New
Teacher of the Year...(read more)
Story: Flowing Wells High School Culinary Arts Teacher Has Recipe for Success, Named New Teacher of the
Year
AHWATUKEE - Physics and engineering aren't typically subjects tackled by fifth- and
sixth-graders, but they are at Ahwatukee's Horizon Community Learning Center... (read more)
Story: Students' elaborate contraption keeps marble in
motion
PHOENIX - Darius
Rivera spent his fall break brushing up on math and writing techniques at Central High School's AIMS
camp...(read
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Story: AIMS tutoring provides students a needed boost
AFRE Offering 15 Credit Hour Biomimicry Workshop to Teachers at Special Price
The Arizona Foundation for Resource Education (AFRE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teacher
professional development, is offering a special opportunity to Arizona teachers of grades 5-12. For only $25, teachers can attend the Saturday,
Nov. 7 and Nov. 14 “Nature’s Design Studio” workshop in
Tempe and earn 15 professional development credit hours.
Participants will learn how to apply inquiry while examining how humans use design principles nature has
perfected, and leave with a lesson plan to take back to the classroom. Materials and meals are included.
Other upcoming AFRE workshops include Understanding by Design (UbD) on Nov. 5-6 in central Phoenix, and
Creating and Sustaining a Professional Learning Community (PLC) on Dec. 7-8 in Tempe.
For information or to register, call 602-266-4417 or visit www.afre.org.
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