Lakota Mossey, art teacher at Liberty Elementary School, was named the Arizona Art Education Association 2020 Elementary Art Teacher of the Year. Thank you for sharing your passion for art education and for your dedication to PVSchools students! Read more: https://www.pvschools.net/newscenter/liberty-art-teacher-named-aaea-2020-elementary-art-teacher-year

Yesterday morning, PVSchools held a small Groundbreaking and Beam Signing Ceremony, in accordance with health and safety recommendations, to celebrate the new Elementary School #33 being built in the Sky Crossing area. Opening in August 2021, Elementary School #33 is slated to be an energy efficient and environmentally friendly school, approximately 88,500 gross square feet in size for 750 students. This time next year a new beautiful neighborhood school will be filled with hundreds of students actively engaging and learning. Thank you to all the teams helping make this school a reality: Sky Crossing by Pulte Homes, Taylor Morrison, DLR Group, CORE Construction, and our PVSchools Facilities team.

National School Bus Safety Week is an annual reminder for the community to work together to practice safe driving every day. This year, bus safety has expanded to include health safety protocols as well. Read more: https://www.pvschools.net/newscenter/national-school-bus-safety-week

If your child is passionate about dance, music technology, theater, or visual arts, PVSchools offers an outlet for your child to express his or her creative passions, with a seamless continuation from elementary school through high school. We hope you can join us online to meet NVAA teachers and students, tour the classrooms, and learn more about what our schools and programs have to offer.

In an effort to provide our families with important and helpful information, we have launched a COVID-19 Dashboard summarizing positive cases by school, developed an easy to follow flowchart for screening for COVID-19, and outlined the process for notifying families about positive COVID-19 cases and sustained exposures. More details in today’s update: https://www.pvschools.net/sites/default/files/Academics/Curriculum/Curriculum%20Information/PVSchools_Update_10-15-2020.pdf