IN THE SPOTLIGHT
PANTANO HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, MONICA WRIGHT, NAMED ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR
Monica Wright, Vail’s Pantano High School Principal, will be honored as Administrator of the Year at the Reaching At-Promise Students Association (RAPSA) Conference, to be held in San Diego, February 19-21, 2010. RAPSA is a national organization for educators who work with students who get behind. As standards and requirements have increased, the number of students who struggle meeting higher expectations also increases. This struggle is especially apparent at the high school level as students work to obtain the necessary credits to graduate. Vail is most fortunate to have a place that provides these students with personalized help in a non-traditional setting: Pantano ...
LYDIA CRAIN NAMED SOUTHWEST DISTRICT PE TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Earlier this year the Vail School District proudly announced that Lydia Crain, physical education teacher at Rincon Vista Middle School, was selected physical education teacher of the year for the State of Arizona. Just recently, the news got better. Lydia has been selected as the Southwest District of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. Lydia will receive her honor at the upcoming SWD Convention in Santa Fe, NM on Saturday, February 13, 2010. As our SWD Teacher of the Year, Lydia will fly to Indianapolis in March and represent ...
NEW INTERACTIVE WEBSITE FROM VSD OFFERS “PERSONALIZED SPIN” TO AZ TAX CREDIT PROGRAM
Last week, Superintendent Calvin Baker unveiled InvestInArizonaYouth.org, a new website from the Vail School District that is designed to help community members direct their tax dollars to education right here in our community. The Arizona School Tax Credit program, which allows taxpayers to send a tax credit to the school of their choice (and then to subtract the total amount from their state taxes), has been around for many years. But InvestInArizonaYouth.org brings a new “personalized” twist to the process. In a nutshell, the highly interactive website makes it possible for taxpayers to "shop for" and choose an activity to fund. Users can ...
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Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
The New York Times Published: February 11, 2010 VAIL, Ariz. — Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy...
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Sycamore Students Raise Money For Haiti
KVOA.com TUCSON – Thousands of people have already donated to Haiti relief, and another wave is about to come rushing in. Dozens of schools throughout Southern Arizona kicked off efforts to raise...
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VSD Fall Athletic Highlights
This fall has been a very exciting time for student athletes as well as their parents. As is the norm in Vail, technology played a major role. Many Cienega and Empire athletic events were broadcast in...
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Beyond Textbooks – A New Way of Sharing
As Vail moved from a district of 500 students to a district of more than 10,000 students, we labored and, at times, struggled to pull together and articulate all the necessary resources to implement the...
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