GESD October Newsletter

National Bullying Prevention Month

National Principals Month

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Health Literacy Month

Thank you Arizona Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents for featuring our very own in this past months newsletter, our Interim Associate Superintendent, Ms. Lina Galvan

Thank you for all the hard work you do behind the scenes and for making it possible for us to communicate and connect with each other as easily as we do today.

Thank you IT Department!👏🏼

⭐IT Director, Luis Ramirez

⭐Systems Administrator, Delio Castillo

⭐Network Specialist, Edgar Vazquez

⭐Technology Project Manager, Alan Mungaray

⭐Systems & Security Specialist, Jose Hernandez

⭐IT Help Desk, Abraham Perez

⭐IT Secretary, Tananda Nova

⭐IT Secretary, Griselda Hernandez

⭐Computer Technicians, Mariano Alvarez, Julian Castro, Delio Castillo Jr., & Fabian Peña

The grants department is happy to announce that Gadsden Elementary School will be receiving a book donation from Kids Need to Read, a non profit organization focus on instilling a love for literacy within public schools. The donation includes 100 library books as well as 480 books for classroom libraries. Thank you Kids Need to Read for this generous donation!

The grants and Technology Department collaborated in the application process for this highly competitive federal grant, that will allow us to expand our mass communication and school bus safety measures using state of the art technology. We are ecstatic to announce that our school district has been awarded $469,058. This is a three year grant that will focus on school safety and school violence prevention.

The Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Title IV-B program is funded by a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the Arizona Department of Education. For more information visit: http://www.azed.gov/21stcclc/

The 21st Century Program/Schools have been busy submitting their first round of reports for the new school year.

As we continue with our compliance reporting requirements, we want to take a moment to highlight the great academic/enrichment projects and activities that our students have been working on at Ed. Pastor and Rio Colorado Elementary Schools this year:

21st Century Community Learning Center

Ed Pastor Elementary School

Picture of Ms. Uriarte going over spelling words during 3rd grade tutoring:

Learning multiplication facts in a fun and colorful way:

Learning the rules of Volleyball:

21st Century Community Learning Center

Rio Colorado Elementary School

Students working collaboratively building their first Lego project:

Ms. Figueroa's class 3D activity. Students created their name in 3D:

A huge shoutout to Walmart for donating supplies for the School Gardening Program.

Salvation Army Christmas Program; Angel Tree

Our school district will have 36 families who will be receiving this donation. The Parent Liaisons will assist by identifying the families in need.

See attached Flyer.

⭐Don't forget, Parent Teacher Conferences are from October 16-18, 2024.⭐

All schools will be following the Short Day Schedule.

What was the hardest thing they conquered that day?

What is their favorite subject?

What they learned today?

What rules are different at school than at home?

What is the funniest thing that happened today?