Reeis Air Conditioning is celebrating SUSD and the conclusion of the school year with a special offer. As the summer heats up and our A/C units start working overtime, team up with SUSD’s partner, Reeis!

Reeis Air Conditioning takes great pride in giving back to the community and will donate 10% of the cost of A/C service it provides or the purchase of a new A/C unit from them.  Just mention SUSD when you’re scheduling an appointment or at payment. Please visit the Reeis website at www.reeis.com or call them at (602) 884-0486 to schedule an appointment.

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Once again this year, the Scottsdale Charros hosted about 300 SUSD students at Scottsdale Stadium for a baseball/softball clinic and lunch. Elementary, middle and high school students had the opportunity to learn skills and techniques from 16 former MLB players at the April 6 event. Between fielding, hitting, pitching, and baserunning, students were able to strengthen their skills with the knowledge shared by former professional baseball players.

Arizona Coyotes center Jack McBain visited Anasazi Elementary School recently to celebrate one of the top leaders in the Arizona Coyotes Reading Program, 4^th grader Mikayla Habich! He celebrated all of teacher Angie Griffith’s students’ reading accomplishments and discussed the importance of reading and achieving goals – and not just the ones on the ice! Students were able to ask questions about his experiences playing hockey, as well as his days in the classroom, back in Canada. Thank you, Jack McBain and the Arizona Coyotes, for allowing SUSD to participate in the Arizona Coyotes Reading Program!  

The SUSD Foundation and community supporters hit the links at Mountain Shadows April 18 for its annual Quest for Excellence Golf Tournament. More than 90 golfers participated in this year’s tournament with the goal of having fun and supporting student success.

The SUSD Foundation supports numerous educational opportunities for SUSD students and educators, including the Innovation Center at Saguaro High School, teachers’ National Board Certification, All-District Athletic banquets and scholarships for senior year student athletes, and the Scottsdale Police Department’s Crisis K-9 program, home to the much-beloved Rocket, Captain and Copper (Happy 1^st birthday, Copper!). For more information about the good deeds of the SUSD Foundation, please visit www.susdfoundation.org.

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All Kids Bike is on a mission to teach every kindergarten student in America how to ride a bicycle during P.E. class.

The All Kids Bike Program provides a fleet of 24 bikes, pedal-conversion kits, helmets, a teacher instructional bike, and certified curriculum teacher training ‒ in short, everything that’s needed to teach kids how to progress from balancing on to riding a bike in eight lessons.   

Hohokam Elementary School P.E. teacher Carmen Simpson jumped at the idea of getting the program for her school’s kindergarteners. Carmen realized she had to capitalize on the program when she learned that just two of her students knew how to ride a bike.

At Hohokam, the program aims to teach approximately 80 kindergarten students a year how to ride a bike.  With the equipment’s expected lifespan of between seven and 10 years, All Kids Bike could impact as many as 800 Hohokam students over the coming decade!

All Kids Bike is a national movement led by the Strider Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization formed in 2017.  The All Kids Bike Learn to Ride program launched the following year and is currently running in more than 820 schools in all 50 U.S. states.

The Hohokam program was recently highlighted on Fox10. Watch the story here.

In the Valley last week for a business conference, Frito Lay employees from Texas and Colorado joined local company employees to volunteer at Yavapai Elementary School. The volunteers were generous with their time and worked hard to turn soil beds in preparation for the school’s gardening club to plant hollyhock seeds.  The team picked weeds from the sunflower bed and even contributed to the outdoor art wall with new crochet flowers and yarn hearts. On behalf our Yavapai Thunderbirds and SUSD, thank you, Frito Lay!