

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.
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...
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.