Arizona Bridge to Independent Living

Raising Arizona Kids

real families | real stories | real life

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Archive for the ‘Charter schools’ Category

Weekly education and schools roundup

Odyssey of the Mind Scottsdale Community College

Scottsdale Community College hosts the 2013 regional tournament for Odyssey of the Mind on Saturday, March 9. About 1,500 participants on 64 teams from kindergarten through college will demonstrate creative solutions to difficult problems and challenges they have worked on during the school year. Better yet, they do this in skit form, even in the [...]

Read the article

Metro Arts performs Spring Dance Concert

Gabrielle Battaglini, a 16-year-old Metro Arts student from Phoenix. Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Arts Institute.

It’s crunch week for dance students at Metropolitan Arts Institute in Phoenix, according to dance department director Nicole Olson, who notes that 70 students in grades 8-12 have been working since December on pieces they’ll perform during this Sunday’s Spring Dance Concert at the Herberger Theater Center. Metro Arts junior Gabrielle Battaglini recalls dancing on the Herberger Theater Center stage [...]

Read the article

School changes from private to charter

Scottsdale Country Day School Phoenix charter school

Scottsdale Country Day School was having a busy day. In addition to the 60 students attending school, parents with kids were getting tours of the facility at 56th Street and Shea Blvd in Phoenix, on the Temple Beth Israel campus. Phones were ringing with parents asking for information about the school and requesting tours of [...]

Read the article

Schools and education roundup

education roundup

Back in the day, a bookmobile roamed rural areas to bring library books to people who lived far from a library. Now a digital bookmobile roams the country offering people the chance to access their local library’s digital books, audio and movies from the convenience of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer. To be persnickety, they call it [...]

Read the article

Metro Arts, this is space station, how do you read?

Metro Arts Phoenix NASA

Students at Metropolitan Arts Institute (Metro Arts) in Phoenix talked live to astronauts Chris Hadfield, and Tom Marshburn aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Destination Station which promotes the science performed on board the space station as well as communicating the connection between the activities on the space station and our lives [...]

Read the article

Education, schools and money

School tuition money FAFSA

Two money-in-education topics. One for individuals looking for college tuition money, the other about public education and school choice. College Goal Sunday and Saturday Too is Feb. 9-10 at 26 locations around the state. There are eight locations in the Valley where prospective college students can get help filling out their Free Application for Federal [...]

Read the article

Online teacher in close contact with students

Arizona Connections Academy online charter school

Meg Kirby teaches second through sixth grades, but not all at once, and her students aren’t in a classroom, at least not the physical kind with plastic chairs, bulletin boards and rows of uncomfortable desks. She teaches for online charter school Arizona Connections Academy (ACA) from the upstairs office in her Gilbert home, her dog [...]

Read the article

Girls engineer project for water safety

Phoenix Girls LEadership Academy

The STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) class at Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona has developed a product designed to reduce the incidence of childhood drowning. The class, taught by Jess Horton, is divided into different task groups to engineer and build a shirt equipped with an air bladder that automatically inflates via CO2 cartridge if [...]

Read the article

Less can be more when teaching math

Singapore math Imagine West Gilbert

I was at Imagine West Gilbert Tuesday when I stepped into a middle school math class looking for photo possibilities for an upcoming issue. Math classes are rarely photogenic; students are usually hunkered down working problems or watching a teacher explain how to solve one. I was interested in the problem-solving exercise the students were [...]

Read the article

Weekly schools and education roundup

Eagle Scout Boy Scouts Gilbert Classical

Despite bad press the Boy Scouts have received lately, plenty of kids benefit from the many positive aspects of scouting. Connor McGettigan of Gilbert Boy Scout Troop 522, a Gilbert Classical Academy sophomore, has been in scouting for seven years and recently attained the rank of Eagle Scout, Gilbert Classical’s first. In addition to earning at [...]

Read the article

Connect With Us

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • youtube
  • pinterest

RAK Giveaways

  • “After Earth” sneak preview

    After-Earth-150pix

    A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]

    Learn more

Recent Issues