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Posted Sunday, November 17, 2024 8:00 am Independent Newsmedia Lara Cox wants to get kids moving. The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. Her devotion paid off when she earned an honorable mention at the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards in October. …
Six year old Ruby Bridges stepped into the history books in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans becoming a national icon for the civil rights movement. Today her story continues to inspire the next generation of leaders to end racism together one step at a time. For more information, (Click Here).
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We want your shoes! No seriously, we do! At the convention, please bring your gently used shoes that you are planning to get rid of and donate them to us! We have teamed up with Sneakers4Good to help minimize shoes in our landfill and into the feet that need them! Clean out those closets, find those shoes you haven’t worn …
“If you are not advancing, you are retreating.” A quote from Four-Star General Oliver P. Smith. Teaching is not unlike war, in an abstract sense. There are many daily battles that are won, and there are many that are lost. Some of those battles are in the classroom, and some are outside of it. But it is a war worth …
BY AARON DECKER KTAR.com PHOENIX – Over 1,000 athletes from across Arizona will come to Mesa to kick off the fall games for Special Olympics Arizona this week. On Friday and Saturday, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., competitors will face off in swimming and bocce at Skyline High School. The Skyline Aquatic Center will host the swimming competition while the bocce events will be …
USTA Southwest offers two different types of educational workshops to help start your coaching journey. The USTA’s Play Facilitators and Coaching Fundamentals Workshops differ in focus to meet the coach’s specific needs. The Coaching Fundamentals Workshop (CFW) focuses on coaching principles and skills for beginner to low-intermediate players. This workshop is a two-day, in-person workshop facilitated by National Coach Developers. …
The 11th Annual NDS Conference is scheduled for June 23-26, 2025 – and will be located in Phoenix, Arizona at Ability360.