Governing Board approves hiring of five administrators Distribution of the 2012 AIMS test student reports Sonoran Sky teacher wins $10,000 classroom makeover in national contest Education Support Professional of the Month PVEA P.R.O.P.S. winner Crossing guard training Around the district
	Int'l Jazz Day, Sat. May 26

                         2,206 seniors graduated from PV high schools on May 24

Governing Board approves hiring of five administrators

At the May 3 board meeting, the Governing Board approved the employment of Melissa Childs as assistant principal of Desert Shadows Middle School, Deanne Dykstra as assistant principal of Pinnacle High School and Melissa Molzhon as principal of Boulder Creek Elementary School effective July 9. At the May 17 meeting, the hirings of James "Brian" Mabb as principal of Paradise Valley High School and Dr. Troy Bales as principal of Pinnacle High School were approved.

Distribution of the 2012 AIMS test
student reports

Student reports for grades 10, 11, 12 for AIMS math, reading, writing, and Grade 10 science will be mailed to student homes in June.

For those students who will not have reports mailed — Schools will distribute reports to students when school starts. These include:

• Grade 9 SAT 10 reports
• Grade 9 AIMS science
• Grades 3-8 AIMS reading, math, writing and science
• Grade 2 SAT 10 reports
  

If parents of students in grades 2-9 would like their student copy earlier, they will be available for parent pickup in the Assessment Department:

• 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Monday -Thursday, June 11-21
• District Administrative Center, 15002 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix

Call the Assessment Department prior to your visit at 602-449-2016 to allow time to prepare copies. Please bring identification that verifies your relationship to the student.

Sonoran Sky teacher wins $10,000 classroom makeover in national contest

Sonoran Sky Elementary School Gifted teacher Karen Mensing was selected as one of five national winners of the Honeywell Got 2B Safe! contest, winning a $10,000 classroom makeover. Mensing will also meet an Arizona Congressional Representative to explain how PV Schools and Sonoran Sky are implementing Internet safety strategies. Mensing has been invited to attend the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's Hope Awards as well as the Congressional Breakfast in Washington, D.C.

For the Got 2b Safe! contest, Mensing developed lesson plans on Internet and cyber safety for K-5 students. She has been diligently working on incorporating Internet safety strategies with her students as they use it as a tool to support learning.

Pinnacle High School senior Stephen Bielecki (2nd from right. Click photo to enlarge) recently received an award from Valley Metro CEO Steve Banta (center) for his winning design in Valley Metro’s 2012 Bus Wrap Design Competition. His design will wrap a city bus for one year. Also present was Bielecki's graphic design teacher Theresa Boettcher (far left), Principal Dr. Jason Reynolds (2nd from left), and second place winner, Pinnacle's Stephen Jewell (far right).  Read more

On May 2, the Sixth Annual PV Schools Fiddle Fest, held in the Paradise Valley High School gymnasium, presented two programs. Carol Krahulec took the lead in organizing this event. The concerts featured elementary, middle, and high school string musicians playing a program featuring Celtic fiddle music. The grand finale involved all of the musicians in a final performance. (Click photo to enlarge.)

Paradise Valley High School senior Jordan Levine is a recipient of the T.W. Lewis Foundation $5,000-per-year scholarship to the school of his choice. Jordan, who ranks in the top one percent of his class with a 4.429 weighted GPA, will attend the University of Arizona next year.

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