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Girls basketball: Pusch Ridge is handling new challenge

Pusch Ridge Christian Academy's girls basketball team made a two-level jump to Division II before this season because of the AIA's realignment.

So far, the squad is handling the challenge just fine.

It's 5-3 in non-tournament games, 11-5 overall and is fresh off a 48-22 win over Catalina Foothills, a playoff team last year. 

Excellence in Science and Technology

As Pusch Ridge Christian Academy high school students filed into their Anatomy & Physiology class the first day back after Christmas break, drab expressions transformed into wide-eyed smiles as students took in the transformation of their classroom. Teacher Lisa Wood’s video camera recorded the students’ reactions to their new classroom, a renovation that drew numerous exclamations of “Wow!” “Oh my gosh!” and, “This is so much better!” from...

 

Professional Development:

The idea that the enemy of the great is the good rattles my thinking. I was sitting in one of my graduate classes where we were examining the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. The goal at hand was: how to connect the data of this business book to education. At that moment, I immediately began thinking that without a true, systematic professional development program we would fall into the category of a “good school” indefinitely. The fire was kindled within me to continue to push for something more than a band-aid approach to growing teachers and to truly enter into the great conversation with them.


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