***Calling all Foothills Academy families of students grades 6-12!

FA is excited to offer a broad array of online courses this summer!  Prices range from $75-$300, for grades 6-12, and vary widely in subject and length.

Consider registering your child in an engaging elective or core course to encourage a budding interest (e.g. Veterinary Science, Anthropology, or Web Design), augment understanding and skills in a core subject, or to strengthen his/her transcript.  These courses may also provide the solution to your student’s credit retrieval or remediation needs.

We invite you to learn more!  Start exploring here.

Register anytime, until June 14, 2013.

Students do not need to be FA students to register. (Share with friends!)

Stay tuned for more developments in FA’s efforts to improve its technology and put forth new options to help students prepare for 21st century college and career experiences.

Please direct any questions to Clea Edwards: cedwards@foothillsacademy.com and (480) 488-5583 x302.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

5:30 p.m. 

FACP Campus

Room 198

7191 E. Ashler Hills Drive

Scottsdale, AZ 85266

If any disabled person needs any accommodation, please notify Valerie Pierson (480-488-5583 ext. 300) at least 72 hours before the meeting.

AGENDA 

1. Call to the Audience 
2.  Review of Minutes from the April 16, 2013 Meeting 
3. Review of revised 2012-2013 Budget for approval. 
4. Land Acquisition Update 
5. Process toward permitting and refinancing 
6. Adjournment 

Next Meeting:  Scheduled June 18, pending preparation of 2013-2014 Budget

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.

FACP Campus

Room 198

7191 E. Ashler Hills Drive

Scottsdale, AZ 85266

If any disabled person needs any accommodation, please notify Valerie Pierson (480-370-5323) at least 72 hours before the meeting.

AGENDA

1. Call to the Audience 
2.   Review of Minutes from the December 10, 2012  Meeting  
3.   Refinance Project –  Michelle Bax, Attorney  
4.  Land acquisition  and appraisal 
5.  Engagement of Attorney John Berry for special use permit process 
6.  Procurement Policy 
7.  Planning for a 20^th Anniversary of Foothills Academy Celebration 
8. Adjournment

Next Meeting – date change:  April 16, 2013.

For the first time, FACP is offering “summer school” to families of our broader community.  FA has provided its students a limited array of courses over the past several summers for, mainly, credit recovery and remediation applications. We are pleased to share a long list of exciting electives, foreign language, as well as core courses that students from FA and elsewhere will have the opportunity to take. 

Registration is open online April 1; courses begin June 10.  Find more details and updates regarding summer session here.

HS Boys Basketball Games:

No Games this week

Regular Practice Schedule

HS Game Times and Locations – www.azcaa.com

MS Basketball Games:

1/9 at Milestones Girls 4:30/Boys 5:30

11/28 Away @ Milestones Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

12/5 Home vs. Painted Rock Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm (Attempting to change to 3:30/4:30)

12/6 Home vs. Westwind  Boys 4:30pm

12/13 Away @ Paradise Schools Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

12/18 Home vs. ISCA Boys 4:30pm

1/9 Away @ Milestones Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

1/17 Away @ Paradise Schools Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

1/24 Away vs. Adams Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

1/28 Home vs. ISCA Boys 4:30pm

1/29 Away @ Bennett Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm (attempting to move to Shiloh)

1/30 Away @ Painted Rock Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

2/5 Away @ Adams Girls 4:30pm & Boys 5:30pm

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Still in scheduling….

Westwind – 1 game

Bennett – 1 game

11/26 Home vs. El Dorado HS 4:30 pm

11/27 Home vs. Imagine Prep. @ Superstition 6:30pm

11/29 Home vs. Glendale Prep 4:30pm

11/30 Away @ El Dorado 5:00 pm

12/6 Away @ ASU Prep Poly 5:00 pm

12/11- Home vs. ASU Prep Poly 6:30pm

12/12- Away @ GEC 5:45pm

12/13- Home vs. Quest 4:30pm

12/17 Home vs. James Madison 4:30pm

12/20- Away @ James Madison Prep 6:30pm

1/14 Home vs. Mission 4:30

1/15 Away @ Quest 3:30 Time Change

1/22 Away @ Basis Peoria 6:30pm at Shiloh

1/29 Away @ Imagine @ Superstition 4:30pm

 2/11- Home vs. GEC 4:30pm

Our elementary campus is fortunate to have a partnership with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers’ College in Tempe.  This connection provides us with very talented ASU students who are about to complete their college course work in Elementary teaching.  We have five “interns” this semester, all of whom are completing their Bachelors Degrees and working on their Masters Degrees in Education.  These young and aspiring teachers bring current  developments in “best practices in elementary education” to our classrooms.  Therefore , not only do our students and teachers benefit from this relationship, but our school continues to gain recognition at the University level throughout the state of Arizona. ASU has chosen Foothills Academy Elementary Preparatory because of the quality experience the college interns receive and because we exemplify success in our classrooms and set an example for future teachers. 

NAU Multiage Conference: 

Foothills Academy Elementary Prep also connects professionally with Northern Arizona State University in Flagstaff. The Flagstaff campus is a center for training Multiage Teachers and once again our school has been invited to present at the Southwest Multiage Conference in Flagstaff on October 13, 2012.  Several of our teachers will be providing workshops for educators throughout Arizona at this conference.  We are proud of the recognition our school is receiving and attribute it to hard work and dedication to an educational philosophy that is grounded in guiding children to construct their own learning and pursuing educational interests that are relevant and exciting for children.  Way to go FAEP Staff.  Keep up the good work.  

Jim White, Principal-FAEP

All of the Foothills Academy students who entered the Arizona Science and Engineering Fair, brought home an award!!

Special Award – American Psychological Association Award goes to Zoe Zacharopoulos, 9^th grade 

Behavioral & Social Sciences category all in divisions 2nd place goes to Zoe Zacharopoulos, 9^th grade

Engineering category all in divisions 3rd place goes to Ryan Kundrata, 7^th grade 

Environmental Sciences category all in divisions 4th place goes to Kevin Meyers, 7^th grade 

Medicine & Health Sciences category all in divisions 2nd place goes to Katelyn Sauber, 7^th grade 

    4th place goes to Sarah Bennett, 9^th grade 

Microbiology category all in divisions 1st place goes to Regent Swindon, 9^th grade    

     2nd place goes to Tatum Maccarter, 9^th grade

Congratulations to Emma-Li Thompson as a finalist and Wade Bennett as a runner up in the essay contest sponsored by National Society for Colonial Dames.  The entire 11^th grade did a wonderful job on their essay which was to: DISCUSS THE RELEVANCE TODAY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S STATEMENT, “A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND.”  This essay contest is a major project of The NSCDA held under the auspices of the Washington Workshops Foundation, a private nonprofit educational program in American government for high school students.  Winners receive full tuition, including seminar materials, university campus housing, and two meals daily, for a week of citizenship education about the national government, plus fun, new friends, and tours of sites in our nation’s capital.  For this contest, 375-400 essays were received, 32 essays were received in AZ, 25 states participated.