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TUHSD COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER | OCTOBER 2019 | ED. 1 VOL. 1 Learn more about the great things happening at Tempe Union High School District DID YOU KNOW SPED STUDENTS GET HANDS-ON BREAD-MAKING EXPERIENCE | pg. 3–4 Table of Contents Special bounty for October 2019 Events pg. 2 special teens Pg. 3-4 Choir students sing Pg. 5 Mindfulness rooms Pg. 5 National Anthem Teen Suicide Tempe Union Online Pg. 6 Prevention Week Pg. 7 Film & TV bring home Pg. 8 Compadre Academy Pg. 9-10 Student Emmy Award Music room STEM grant from Pg. 10 Arizona Cardinals High Pg. 11 D-Backs Foundation School Player of the Week Tempe Tardeada ASU Gammage High School Scholarship Pg. 11 Musical Theatre Awards Pg. 12 12 News A+ Teacher Golfer plays in PGA of the Week Pg. 13 Champions Tour Pg. 14 Semifinalists must have an outstanding Congratulations academic record throughout high school, demonstrated leadership abilities, to our 2020 participation in school and community activities, be recommended by the school principal, write an essay, and earn SAT® National Merit scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the Preliminary SAT/ Semifinalists: National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. 1 OctoberOctober Events Here are some upcoming events at our schools! Please visit your school’s website for a full calendar of events, performances and game schedules. • OCT. 3: MARCOS DE NIZA BROADWAY CONCERT @ 6 PM • OCT. 7 - 11: FALL BREAK — NO CLASSES • OCT. 11: AHWATUKEE BOWL @ DESERT VISTA | KICK OFF @ 7 PM • OCT. 14: COLUMBUS DAY — NO CLASSES • OCT. 16: PSAT TESTING • OCT. 18-19, 25-26: MOUNTAIN POINTE HAUNTED HOUSE FUNDRAISER @ 6 PM • OCT. 21: THE TEEN BRAIN | I’M [IN]FORMED WORKSHOP @ MARCOS DE NIZA | @ 6 PM • OCT. 22: TEMPE HIGH ORCHESTRA CONCERT @ 7 PM • OCT. 23: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA NIGHT @ CORONA DEL SOL | @ 6 PM • OCT. 24: CORONA DEL SOL BONFIRE @ 6 PM • OCT. 28: CORONA DEL SOL TRUNK OR TREAT @ 6 PM FREE & OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY! • OCT. 30: MCCLINTOCK HIGH BONFIRE @ 5:30 PM • OCT 30: EL COLEGIO COMUNITARIO DE MESA — JUNTA INFORMATIVA @ 6:30 PM • OCT. 31: HAPPY HOLLOWEEN These are our Semifinalists: Jonathan Pak Eileen Li Evan Travis Maria Liong McClintock High School Michelle Wei Sreya Pattipati Caio Dengi James Wen Kristen Roehling Connie Devenport Mutian “Jerry” Xin Christopher Shin Theodore Strich Nathan Zhang Sarah Stellburg Shane Tokishi Desert Vista High School Corona del Sol High School Luca Welch Megan Chen Justin Bai David Wu Jessica Condon Zachary Johnson Jessica Zhang Lauren Jobe 2 SPECIAL BOUNTY FOR SPECIALSpecial TEENS Ed Between the brick walls and Tempe High Student Services “[Mr. Werner] has been working bustling footsteps of Tempe Specialist, got her special with my students in building High School sits an unlikely education students involved. a sensory garden that we had display: A community started,” Laurence said. “He garden. The garden, which Mr. Werner, who has been thought growing wheat from can be found in the middle given the nickname of native seed would be interesting of campus, started out as “Tempe High unofficial since it’s used in so many things a sustainability project for gardener”, tended to the that we eat but it looks so different after being processed.” a student in need of credit garden over the long, hot Arizona summer. Along with recovery. At the start, Tempe The wheat from Tempe High teacher Mr. Michael plants typical to Arizona, High’s garden was donated to Werner oversaw the project. such as tomatoes, peas and Tempe bakery Great Harvest flowers, students grew an Bread Company, a local bread Then the project grew legs unusual crop: Wheat. making company that mills as Ms. Jennifer Laurence, their own flower. The bakery 3 SPECIAL BOUNTY FOR SPECIAL TEENS Specialthen invited the teens back even described the difference breadEd with us,” said Watson. to the store for a hands-on as being able to taste the “We did incorporate their flour experience to see how their attention, love [and] care that into this project. So they really wheat would be turned into went into it.” did get to enjoy the fruits ...er... bread loaves of their labor. The bread. The bakery staff introduced Little Red Hen would be proud the students to professional Though some were hesitant (and so are we).” bakery machinery, including a at first, 15 students of Ms. flour mill, commercial mixers Laurence’s Autism Class and large convection ovens. Walston’s goal of the were guided through the afternoon: To help the bread making process. They Leslie Walston, owner students realize the full circle were given individual balls of Great Harvest Bread of farmer, miller, baker and of dough that they kneaded, Company, incorporated consumer of fresh bread. scored and set aside to activities to play to the watch rise. The students students’ different senses. “Just making the bread was then watched their bread She gave them tubs of an experience that none had loaves bake and rise in the different types of flour to been a part of before. Most large ovens of the bakery. feel textural differences, were hesitant because it was and asked them to smell a new place with new people,” “They learned that baking the aroma of freshly baked Laurence said. “Amazingly, bread from scratch is a lot of bread. within a few minutes, Mrs. work, but for those who like Leslie had just about every bread, they said it was worth “It was wonderful to have such student engaged and involved it,” Laurence said. “A few amazing youth and staff make and asking for her approval.” SPECIAL EDUCATION CONTACTS • Katherine Minard | Director of Special Education | 480.839.0292 x12032 [email protected] • Jennifer Leon | Assistant Director of Special Education | 480.839.0292 x12034 | [email protected] • Carmen “Rene” Delgado | Administrative Assistant to the Director of Special Education | 480.839.0292 X12031 | [email protected] • Douglas Prentice | Transition from School to Work Coordinator | 480.839.0292 x12035 | [email protected] • Special Education District Department Fax: 480.345.3775 4 CORONA DEL SOL, MOUNTAIN POINTE CHOIR STUDENTS SING NATIONAL ANTHEM Over 250 choir students from High School joined together Hebert, Corona’s Andrew Tempe Union High School to sing the National Anthem DeValk and Mountain Pointe District were invited to sing at Chase Field on August 29, Choir Director Katie Hixon. the national anthem for the 2019, just before the Arizona Arizona Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks played the To see their performance, Los Angeles Dodgers. visit: https://www. Roughly 200 singers from TempeUnion.org/TUHSD_ Corona del Sol and about 50 The choirs were led by Newsroom singers from Mountain Pointe Corona choir director Greg TEMPE UNION OPENS MINDFULNESS ROOMS This school year, Tempe serve students. high school campus supports Union High School District Funded by a partnership the efforts of the grant to will be opening a mindfulness with the Governor’s Office on prevent drug and alcohol use room at each of its seven Youth, Faith and Families and by students. school sites. Corona del Sol the High School Health and Corona del Sol also received is the first to complete the Wellness Grant, select staff grant funding from the renovation of their room. All at each site have received Arizona Diamondbacks other campuses will open training to lead mindfulness Foundation to support the their rooms throughout the practices and oversee the opening of their mindfulness remainer of 2019. use of the rooms. The room. The rooms will host grant provides funding to For more information on mindfulness practices at support drug and alcohol our High School Health & designated times throughout prevention on all seven Wellness Program, please the day. The schedules will TUHSD campuses. Offering visit: TempeUnion.org/ differ on each campus to best mindfulness practices on a HighSchoolHealthWellness 5 TEMPE UNION LAUNCHES ONLINE EDUCATION PROGRAM: TUOL To meet the growing demand Social Studies and Electives. curriculum standards of the of the virtual student, Tempe Students can also take District. courses for credit recovery. Union High School District The district first launched has launched a new online TUOL is an open entry, open Tempe Union Online during education program. exit program, meaning the 2019 Summer Education Tempe Union Online (TUOL) students can enroll at Academy, where nearly 200 offers students online anytime and will have 18 students were enrolled in the learning opportunities weeks to finish a course. Program. to provide flexibility for TUOL students receive one- Over 230 students are personalized student on-one instructional support actively taking courses online success. and tutoring from highly in the 2019-2020 school year. qualified, certified teachers. Students work with their For more information on Students also have access to teacher in a virtual, online Tempe Union Online, Online Learning Labs at every environment to study and please visit: Tempe Union campus where complete all coursework at TempeUnion.org/TUOL their own pace. computers are available for student use in a supervised The district offers a total of classroom lab setting. 14 classes each semester, and includes courses in All courses are aligned to subjects like Math, English, the Arizona Standards and ENGAGING — SELF-PACED — FLEXIBLE TUOL COURSES AVAILABLE: • English: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior • Math: Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, College Math • Social Studies: World History, American History, US/AZ Government, Economics • Electives: Psychology, Sociology • PLUS the credit recovery version of each course listed above. Please Note: TUOL is open entry open exit, which means one can start a course whenever as long as there are 18 weeks left in the school year to finish. 6 MCCLINTOCK STUDENTS RECOGNIZE TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION WEEK Students at McClintock High School honored Teen Suicide Prevention Week with a school- wide activity.