Academic Services is seeking community members, teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators to serve in a leadership capacity to research and evaluate math programs for Grades K–8. Participants chosen for this role will be trained in evaluative criteria prior to reviewing programs and accompanying resources. Our first meeting dates are scheduled for September 21st and October 2nd at the Laveen Education Center, 5001 W. Dobbins.

To apply, community members, teachers, and instructional coaches must submit a brief letter of interest to their school principal by Thursday, September 7th. Letters of interest will only be accepted with principal approval. Please direct any questions to Dr. Tracy Watkins, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction at twatkins@laveeneld.org.

Read the Summer 2023 issue of The Latest from Laveen.

The Laveen School District is transitioning to a new communications platform for the 2023-24 school year.

ParentSquare is a robust communications platform that combines tools such as email, text, classroom updates, sign-ups, scheduling, and updates into one easy-to-use platform.

Laveen families can download the app or log in to the dashboard. From there, you will see secure messages from your child’s teacher, classroom updates, classroom photo galleries, and school event calendars. You’ll be able to sign up for conferences and volunteer opportunities. If you have multiple children in our schools, you can see all these notifications at once or toggle between children to see relevant information for each individual child.

Learn more at www.LaveenSchools.org/Parentsquare

Several Laveen teams competed in the recent MESA Day held at Grand Canyon University. Thirty three teams from across the state competed in the annual Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement competition.

Two of Rogers Ranch’s teams took 1st place in the MESA Attack Vehicle and Sustainable Skyscraper challenges. Vista teams also took 1st Place in the Hack Attack
challenge, 2nd Place in the Attack Vehicle challenge, and 3rd Place in the Sustainable Skyscraper challenge.