AHWATUKEE, AZ – When discussing his students’ achievements, Larry Strom sounds more like a football coach than the chairman of Desert Vista High School’s math department. And someone overhearing Strom could easily mistake him for a music teacher preparing students’ for an important recital or a dance instructor praising pupils following an especially brilliant performance...(read more)
Story: 25 Students Earn Perfect 800 SAT/PSAT Math Scores

TUCSON, AZ – Krista Gypton's teaching style was forever altered on Sept. 11. The former finalist for Arizona Teacher of the Year recalls driving to school that morning, scared and trying to muster up some idea of what she was going to say in half an hour when she would stand in front of more than two dozen 13-year-olds and try to make sense of the incomprehensible. ...(read more)
Story: Her lesson plan: doing good in the world

GILBERT, AZ — ”Why do we keep doing this? We’re using all our oil up.” Frank Hendricsen, a seventh grade science teacher at Bogle Junior High School, says he faces similar questions from students all the time during discussions on the use of natural resources during his class’s “Go Green” unit. (read more)
Story: Junior High Students Launch Go Green Campaign

TUCSON, AZ – Competition was ratcheting up between two teams of earth-science students one recent afternoon at Tanque Verde High School. Team One ran into trouble with the definition of dew point, allowing Team Two to capitalize on the error and storm ahead with the right answer on relative humidity. ...(read more)
Story: Tanque Verde HS has a top U.S. teacher

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