Tag: Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy (FALA)
Education Spotlight — Fredonia High School legend of 30 years retires. See more local, state and national education news here
Ray Bowler started teaching at Fredonia High School back in 1993, and has been an influence in students’ lives ever since! Bowler was influenced by his own teachers to pursue his career in teaching and taught for 30 years at Fredonia High School. He must have liked it because he only taught in Fredonia and nowhere else!
Education Spotlight — ‘Something you can use in the real world:’ Tuba City high school students learn to code with NAU graduate students. See more local, state and national education news here
Maliya Peyketewa, a freshman at Greyhills Academy High School in Tuba City wants to become an app and web developer when she gets older. And a virtual after-school coding course offered to STEM students at her school is helping her learn one of the computer languages she can use to get there.
“I get to intertwine my computer information science class and my knowledge from coding class to make my own website,” Peyketewa said. Building the website is an assignment in her computer science course, and she said she was able to add more pictures to the site because she can code. “You get to build on it and express yourself that way.”
The virtual coding class, which is entering its third year at Greyhills on the Navajo Nation, is offered after school once a week for 16 weeks each spring and fall. It was started by Ph.D. students Ayla Martinez and Jeff Propster in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss), who wanted to help students build professional development skills in a safe way during the COVID-19 pandemic. Martinez and Propster, who led community engagement work as part of the NAU McAllister program in Community, Culture, and Environment, worked with Greyhills STEM instructor Reny Mathew to offer via Zoom a course in R, a coding language commonly used in biology and ecology. Subsequently, Ecoss Ph.D. candidate Peter Chuckran offered introductory and intermediate courses in Python, a language with wide-ranging professional applications.
Education Spotlight — FUSD Celebrates Career and Technical (CTE) Month. See more local, state and national education news here
In celebration of CTE Month, we are featuring some FUSD alumni. Meet Emma Frain, an alumna of Flagstaff High School (FHS) and now a catering sales manager at Mountain Shadows Resort in Paradise Valley/Scottsdale, Arizona
Emma explained that the culinary program at FHS was the catalyst for her career in the food and beverage industry.
“In class, we learned all the basics, techniques, and culinary skills,” said Emma about her introduction to culinary arts at FHS. “And needless to say, I was hooked.”
Education Spotlight — FUSD Kindergarten Registration Now Open for the 2022-2023 School Year! See more local, state and national education news here
Kindergarten registration for the 2022-2023 school year is now open for families. Click here to learn more about kindergarten and register your student today!
Kindergarten is an exciting time for children and their families. There are lots of questions about what this new stage will look like for your child and we are grateful that you have chosen Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) to prepare your child to be successful in the years ahead. At FUSD, we believe in supporting the whole child – academically and socially, through a collaborative partnership with families and the school.
Local Education Spotlight: FALA’s Eugene Brosseau named NAZ Today Teacher of the Week. See more local education news here
As another week rolls by, another teacher is highlighted for their work in the classroom. Eugene Brosseau, an art teacher at the Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy (FALA), is our Teacher of the week, and NAZ Today’s Justin Dubail was there to speak with him. Brosseau got his love for the arts in high school, where he was inspired by his art teacher, and encouraged to go into the field of being an educator.
Navigating road blocks: Flagstaff grads advised to stay flexible in life. See more local education news here
“When a road is blocked off or is jammed up – as happens often in this town – we may have to go around,” graduating student Richie Szopinski said to about 80 fellow graduates at Coconino Community College’s first commencement ceremony Friday morning.”Sure, it may take us a bit longer, and we may not like it initially, but we should never underestimate it. Who knows, you might just find something out about yourself that you might never have if you had taken the alternate route,” he said.
FALA, Thomas Elementary teachers take top educator honors at 2019 Viola Awards
Rich Krueger of the Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy (FALA) received the Excellence of Science Award during the 2019 Viola Awards, presented March 2 at the High Country Conference Center. Kathy Marron of Thomas Elementary School in Flagstaff received the Excellence in Arts Education Award.
