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Education Spotlight — CCC to receive up to $4 million to attract male high school students to higher education. See more local, state and national education news here
FLAGSTAFF — Coconino Community College has received the largest donation in the college’s history to attract male high school students to higher education.
A private donor has offered the college $1 million per year for four years to achieve the goal.
“This transformational gift will allow us to blaze a new path forward and open the doors of higher education for students who may not have been considering going to college,” said Dr. Eric Heiser, President of CCC. “With the resources that this gift will provide, we will be able to focus specifically on those male students who have not re-engaged with community college since the onset of the pandemic.”
Dianna Sanchez, Chief Development Officer for the CCC Foundation, said, “The magnitude of this gift is truly unprecedented for CCC. As the largest gift in the Foundation’s history, it will provide the necessary resources to vastly increase our male students’ chances for success in higher education, degree attainment and employment.”
Education Spotlight — Page Public Library wins 2023 Best Small Library in America Award. See more local, state and national education news here
Page Public Library has been named Library Journal’s 2023 Best Small Library in America. The prestigious annual award, sponsored by Ingram Content Group, was created in 2005 to recognize the exemplary work of libraries serving populations under 25,000.
The Library Journal’s announcement of the award, released last week, cited the library’s “sustaining work” as a “lifeline” for the City of Page, “serving adults, students, and businesses in creative and critical ways.”
Education Spotlight — NAU welcomes back Lumberjacks! See more local, state and national education news here
President Cruz Rivera welcomed students to campus in his annual first-day-of-class video message (Aug. 28), and although Monday was the first day of school at NAU throughout Arizona and online, the Flagstaff campus has been humming with activity for a week as students moved into residence halls, got to know their classmates at Welcome Week activities, went to their first sporting events and donned blue and gold T-shirts for the Class of 2027’s Letters photo. It’s an especially exciting time at NAU, as the implementation of Access2Excellence has contributed to the most diverse, most accomplished and most Arizonan class NAU has ever welcomed. Take a look at the numbers for this class of Lumberjacks and find yourself and your friends in photos.
Education Spotlight — Page Unified School District Preschool Adds Elevate Pre-K. See more local, state and national education news here
Elevate Pre-K is designed, in part, to be a tool to help working families with young children return to the work force. One of the key components of the Elevate Pre-K program it that students are in school from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The program is also year-round. This differs from PUSD’s preschool, which runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday. PUSD’s preschool also closes during the summer months on the same schedule as the rest of the school district.
“This allows working parents with young children a chance to return to the work force, knowing that their child is in a safe, caring environment,” said Beth Giacalone, Program Director of Northern Arizona Programs.
Education Spotlight — Community invited to participate in 13th annual NAU Indigenous language education conference. See more local, state and national education news here
The College of Education at Northern Arizona University invites the community to participate in the 2023 Hybrid Stabilizing Indigenous Languages American Indian/Indigenous Education Conference (AIITEC), which takes place June 23-24 at NAU’s Flagstaff Mountain campus. The theme of the conference is “Returning to our languages and ways of knowing,” addresses the success of Indigenous language revitalization efforts since the passage of the Native American Languages Act of 1990 and the important role of schools in nurturing and passing on the languages of Indigenous communities.
The program includes presentations from Hopi, Ute, Apache and Diné language teachers who will provide strategies and resources that participants can use to welcome students to their classrooms and promote student success.
Education Spotlight — NAU Student Engineers Soar with Boeing Drone Project. See more local, state and national education news here
When Cassie Petit, development director at Northern Arizona University’s College of Engineering, Informatics and Applied Sciences (CEIAS), reached out to Boeing about being involved in a student capstone project, she wasn’t sure how the giant aviation manufacturer would respond.
Fortunately, her Boeing contact was Senior Engineering Manager Amanda Nemec, an NAU mechanical engineering alumna, who now sits on the CEIAS advisory council.
After a discussion with Nemec, other Boeing staff and NAU faculty members, the project took off. Boeing had been developing a surveillance drone airframe, but the prototype weighed four pounds (just slightly less than a pet Chihuahua). The NAU student team was charged with designing and building a lighter, more maneuverable frame. It needed to be 3D printed and study enough to survive a crash from a height of 10 feet.
Education Spotlight — NAU News — Putting the care in teaching. See more local, state and national education news here
Megan Norrish always knew she wanted to be a teacher. It wasn’t just that her father was a teacher or that, at 5 years old, she didn’t know what other career options were out there. It was that she fully embodied everything it meant to be an educator.
“I always enjoyed helping my friends with their schoolwork when they were confused, and they said I explained it well. Plus, I have always been drawn to creative ways of thinking, an important skill for any elementary school teacher,” she said. “Even in high school, I was voted for the superlative of ‘most likely to become a teacher,’ so I’m excited to finally be living up to that now.”
Education Spotlight — Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District receives $500,000 matching grant to build teacherage. See more local, state and national education news here
A teacherage is defined as “the residence of a teacher, when provided by the teacher’s school.” Some school districts have recently received funding for their own teacherages, including Page Unified School District, Prescott Unified School District and Sedona- Creek Unified School District. In addition, Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District has applied for, and received approval for, a $500,000 matching grant to build their own teacherage.
Education Spotlight — NAU announces Summer Youth Camps. See more local, state and national education news here
Our camps educate and entertain children entering Kindergarten through eighth grade for 1-10 weeks in the summer. We provide a fun and friendly environment where your children can take part in safe, high-quality activities led by a well-trained and knowledgeable staff across the NAU campus. Our enthusiastic camp leaders create engaging and non-traditional program opportunities that are sure to enhance your children’s summer, and are all grade and age appropriate. Please visit our camps section for more details!
Education Spotlight — Coconino County Teacher of the Year Awards Ceremony to be held April 20. See more local, state and national education news here
Congratulations to the 2023 Coconino County Teacher of the Year Finalists:
Lisa Barnard, Sinagua Middle School
Emily Fisher, Marshall Elementary School
Kate Haynes, Knoles Elementary School
The winner will be announced on April 20th, 2023 and one of these finalists will receive a one-year leased 2023 Toyota Camry SE from us!
