CCUSD: CSHS Freshmen 1st and 2nd in Writing Contest
February 28, 2019 Courtesy Cave Creek Unified School District Cactus Shadows Freshmen take 1st and 2nd Place in the 2019 Polly Rosenbaum Writing Contest Cactus Shadows High School is pleased to announce that freshmen, Sophia Barnedo and Tilda Hanlon-McGregor took 1st and 2nd place, respectively, in the 2019 Polly Rosenbaum Writing Contest from over 100 submissions. The Arizona Educational Foundation (AEF) sponsors this contest. Their...
CCUSD: Leads in Joining New College Board Program
February, 2019 Cave Creek Unified School District Among the first to join the new College Board Pre-AP Program New Pre-AP program offers instructional resources and classroom-based assessments to improve college readiness for all students Cave Creek Unified School District was selected from over 1,000 schools worldwide that will participate in the new Pre-AP Program next school year. Pre-AP is designed to give all students the...
CCUSD: Pettinato Recommended as HTES Intermim Principal
January 31, 2019 Horseshoe Trails Elementary School (HTES) – Interim Principal Announced Dr. Debbi Burdick, Superintendent of the Cave Creek Unified School District, is pleased to announce that she will be recommending to the CCUSD Governing Board that Mr. Aaron Pettinato be named HTES Interim Principal for the remainder of the school year. Aaron Pettinato has been a CCUSD employee since 2006. He began his career as a student teacher...
CCUSD: Gifted Creative Inquiry Teacher Energizes Solar Education
January 26, 2019 Courtesy of Cave Creek Unified School District CCUSD’s Gifted Creative Inquiry Program Teacher Participates in 5-week long Summer Research Experience for Teachers Students Learn First-Hand About Real-World Solar Issues & Technology Leah Moran, CCUSD’s Gifted Creative Inquiry Program Teacher, participated in a 5-week long Summer Research Experience for Teachers. Since then, she has decided to continue with the...
CCUSD: Cactus Shadows’ Mark O’Bryan named NFHS Section 7 Coach of the Year
January 20, 2019 Golf Coach Receives Statewide Recognition Cactus Shadows High School, in the Cave Creek Unified School District, is pleased to announce that CSHS’ Girls’ Golf Coach, Mark O’Bryan, has been named the 2017-18 National Federal of State High School Associations (NFHS) Section 7 Coach of the Year! In an AZPREPS3645 article by Seth Plansky – it reads, “The NFHS has a contact in each state who is responsible for selecting...
CCUSD: Ladas Named to ACTFL Board for K-12
December 1 2018 Courtesy Cave Creek Unified School District Maria Cristina Ladas Named to American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Board of Directors Cave Creek Unified School District is pleased to announce that Cristina Ladas, World Language Coordinator, has been added to the ACTFL Board of Directors for K-12. ACTFL’s media release read, originally an elementary bilingual teacher, Cristina now coordinates the...
CCUSD’s First Annual Winter Holiday Art Contest
December 1, 2018 Courtesy Cave Creek Unified School District CCUSD’s First Annual Winter Holiday Art Contest All CCUSD elementary schools were asked to submit their top three contenders for the First Annual CCUSD Winter Holiday Art Contest. A small committee at the District Office reviewed the entries and chose the top winner. The winner’s submission will be the electronic Winter Holiday Art Card for the District. Congratulations...
CCUSD: Cactus Shadows Student Athletes Honored
September, 2018 Courtesy of Cave Creek Unified School District Falcons Athletic Club Honors Cactus Shadows High School Student Athletes The Falcons Athletic Club honored twenty-three Cactus Shadows senior student athletes with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 4.5 or higher at the August 31, 2018, home football game. In the game’s program insert, there were over 240 CSHS student athletes listed with a cumulative GPA of...
CCUSD: Desert Sun Academy Teachers Win APS Award
August 23, 2018 Courtesy Cave Creek Unified School District Desert Sun Academy, located in the Cave Creek Unified School District, is pleased to announce that two of its teachers have won the Arizona Public Services (APS) Supply My Class Awards! Teachers, Ms. Linda Fox, Ms. Danielle Michalizysen and Mrs. Kristine Paul, and each received a $500 Visa recognition card to be used for their classrooms. Mr. Aaron Bagwell, Principal of DSA...
Parents! CCUSD National School Lunch/Breakfast Program Information
August 2, 2018 Courtesy Cave Creek Unified School District “Cave Creek Unified School District be participating in the National School Lunch Program and/or the School Breakfast Program. As part of this program, All schools in the Cave Creek Unified School District will offer healthy meals every school day. Breakfast costs $1.00 at elementary and middle school. Breakfast at the high school is $2.00; lunch costs $2.25 at...
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