Jeff Hartman wanted his students to learn the history of their neighborhood, including the history of the murals in the El Rio Community Center and downtown Tucson. He connected with Jenna [...]
Just about every morning and afternoon when Krista walked up to the front of the school, a group of students in a circle were spitting out rhymes in a cypher. They had more passion in those [...]
As a way to help students creatively engage in a writing process, Jen Nowicki Clark of Creative Narrations taught Joanna’s students the art of creating a storyboard for a digital story. She then [...]
As a way to build team skills, students learned “Interactive Vaulting,” a certified discipline that engages people in horsemanship activities and movements around, on and off a horse. This [...]
In a collaboration across grades and schools, students with a variety of academic and social needs were able to connect and collaborate around concepts related to pollination and ecology. The [...]
An 8th grade class, the teacher and Joaquin Murrieta, a community partner, worked together to determine that the school should build capacity for younger students and expand green infrastructure [...]
137 high school students took the year-long academic program known as “National History Day” to the next level through a partnership with the University of Arizona. Students learned to do what [...]
Teacher, Marisol Badilla, knew the importance of restorative programming at City High School and wanted to reinforce those ideas by engaging a community member doing similar work. Vana Lewis [...]
What do we think of when we reflect on water in a desert – our Sonoran Desert? That’s a question teachers wanted their 6th grade students to explore as part of an interdisciplinary [...]
Annie Holub, as part of her Creative Writing class, wanted to give her students the opportunity to create a finished, professional product in the form of a magazine or “zine.”
This year, with [...]
