District Dialogue Biweekly news from the Laveen Elementary School District April 11, 2014 The District Dialogue is issued on the second and fourth Friday of the month. Rogers Ranch Instruconal Coach named Rodel Aspiring Principal Cory Woodard, Instruconal Coach at Rogers Ranch, has been selected as a Rodel Aspiring Principal. He will now go through a two-year course of training, shadowing, and mentor- ship with a Rodel Exemplary Principal. The Rodel Aspiring Principal program provides parcipants with praccal strate- gies they can apply at their own schools when they become principals. Parcipants aend professional development seminars on the four Rodel traits: Collaborave School Environment, Family and Commu- nity Involvement, Professional Learning, and High Expecta- ons. Woodard was selected for this honor by Rodel for, among other things, his commitment to effecve leadership in a high -needs school. Woodard will be joining Laveen Elementary School next year as their Assistant Principal. Laveen receives grant to provide back-to-school clothing for students in need The Laveen Elementary School District is the recipient of a $15,000 grant by Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust to provide back-to-school clothing for students at all seven schools. The grant provides school uniforms, underwear and shoes to students with the greatest need. “Laveen shares in Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust’s belief that essenal clothing helps prepare chil- dren for a successful school year,” said Laveen’s superintendent, Dr. Bill John- son. “This grant will provide some of our neediest students with clean, properly-fied clothes and shoes and help them get their school year off on the right start.” Laveen joins 40 other school districts across Maricopa County in receiving the back-to-school clothing grant. We were selected because we have a significant populaon of students in need. Rogers Ranch custodian named AZ Naonal Guard’s Instructor of the Year Rogers Ranch School’s Lead Custodian, Joshua Snow, has been named Instructor of the Year by the Arizona Army Naonal Guard. In addion to his custodial dues, Snow serves as a Sergeant First Class in the Guard and is one of 20 instruc- tors at the Guard’s Regional Training Instute located at 52 nd Street and McDowell in east Phoenix. He teaches classroom courses such as Military Police and Officer Candidate School to Army soldiers. Each year, the Regional Training Instute conducts a selecon process for the Instructor of the Year award. Each instructor teaches a class to a panel of senior leaders. Instructors are judged based on their ability to deliv- er a block of instrucon. Points are deducted for using crutch words like “um,” lacking smooth transions, or not relang the material to students in a way they understand. The judges look for the instructor to be engaging and make what could be a dry and boring class interesng. Snow will now be evaluated for the Instructor of the Year award for the enre U.S. Army. He gave another class which was recorded and sent to Washington D. C. for judging. He will find out in a few months how he placed at the naonal level. Snow has been at Rogers Ranch School in the Laveen Elementary School District for two years and served as a behavior monitor prior to moving into the lead custodian role. His military experience has benefied the school in both roles. “Mr. Snow's aenon to detail and expectaons for himself and his work has helped improve the campus to be more comfortable, clean and safe,” noted school Principal Tim Thomas. Woodard Snow