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The Arizona Cardinals brought their mini skills camp to Rogers Ranch. Cardinals volunteers, School Resource Officers, and player Kaden Davis all assisted in running our students in Grades 5-8 through several drills. It was a beautiful morning to get fresh air and exercise.

Each year, the Laveen Elementary School District hosts a Winter Festival for the community. The 10th annual Laveen Winter Festival is scheduled for Friday, December 1, 2023. The event runs from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the David Glasser Athletic Complex, 5001 W. Dobbins.

This year’s Winter Festival will feature obstacle courses (for both big and little kids), games, activities, student performances, photo opportunities, holiday gift vendors, food, and much more!

Admission is free. Tickets will be available for purchase for select activities. Credit cards accepted.

All proceeds benefit the Laveen Education Foundation.

Visit our Winter Festival page for more info.

See the schedule of student performances.

This year’s festival is sponsored by

Premier Sponsor Chasse Building Team
Silver Sponsor Ghaster Painting & Coatings
Bronze Sponsor Laveen Dance

Each year the district recognizes select administrators who exhibit exceptional leadership, outstanding accomplishment, and dedicated service to Laveen’s students and community. This year we are recognizing Tim Thomas, Asst. Superintendent of Human Resources; Jon Rohloff, Principal of Paseo Pointe; Kaitlin Gretkierewicz, Asst. Principal of Desert Meadows; Megan Hamburgh, Principal of Rogers Ranch; Asia Glover, Asst. Principal of Estrella Foothills; Nancy Ramirez, Director of Federal Grants; and Robert Jacobson, Director of Support Services.

Congrats, to Eric Thomas (8th grade) and AnaCapresi Ricci (7th grade) who have been selected to shop with a cop with Officer Roman on 12/7/2023. These students have demonstrated PRIDE at Rogers Ranch and have shown to be a great role model among their peers!

Students from Rogers Ranch STEM Academy provided a demonstration of their coding skills to the Governing Board at the September meeting. They were led by first grade teacher Michelle Silva.

The school launched a LEGO Robotics program last year and has been partnering with students from Bioscience High School. This program provides students with the fundamental concepts of engineering. Students explore real world problems and design and code robots to create unique solutions to those problems. LEGO Robotics is suitable for students across all grade levels. Students in Grades K-3 receive an introduction to STEM using LEGO’s Duplo bricks. Students in Grades 3-5 explore real world concepts and code models. And, in Grades 8-8, students participate in a challenge competition where they research, problem solve, and engineer.

District superintendent Dr. Sprout held an assembly at each school to introduce all third and fourth-grade students to the Superintendent’s Math-All Stars Club, challenging students to spend 15 minutes a day practicing math skills.

Students who join the club will be given a Chromebook to use at home for the duration of the school year. Students will participate in the ALEKS online math program, a companion product to the district’s math curriculum. ALEKS uses adaptive tools to tailor students’ math practice to their identified needs. Dr. Sprout will appear in Google Classroom videos monthly to congratulate students and introduce the month’s challenges and monthly prizes.

Read our September Issue of our school newsletter. Past issues can be found under the “About Us” tab.

Laveen’s Kids Club is now enrolling for Fall Break Camp. Camp is open to children in Grades preschool-6 and will be held Oct.9-13 at Desert Meadows School. Visit our Day Camp page for details and to register.

Eight Laveen schools were recognized by PBISAZ for installing and sustaining Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) systems to improve the academic and behavioral outcomes of students. All eight received the highest level of award, Level 4, which recognizes schools with fidelity at all levels. The Laveen School District has more Level 4 awards than any other district in Arizona.

Congratulations to Laveen, M.C. Cash, Vista, Cheatham, Desert Meadows, Paseo Pointe, Rogers Ranch and Estrella Foothills!