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Week One
Thank you to the entire PVHS School Community for a smooth opening week. There were a few issues with Infinite Campus and schedules that we hope have been taken care of efficiently. Our entire staff has been impressed with our students approach to this new school year. They have been ready to learn and respectful. We are anticipating a great year for PVHS.
Mark the date on your calendars. Monday, August 30 is our Fall Open House. Information regarding the evenings' schedule will be sent to all homes in the coming week. Come meet your child's teachers and administrators.
After reading a story in the May 11 Arizona Republic about the backpack food donation program started by Paradise Valley Students Against Hunger (PVSAH) at Paradise Valley High School, employees at APS wanted to help. Employees and customers at several APS locations donated food to help supply the PVSAH pantry with additional items for students.
Last January, Paradise Valley High students formed Paradise Valley Students Against Hunger, buying and handing out breakfast bars to students who did not have enough to eat. With the help of teacher Randy Plummer, principal Cindy Davis and the non-profit group Kitchen on the Street, they were able to provide food for students — packaged in backpacks — that students could pick up and take home from certain classrooms identified with a program decal. Read May 11 AZ Republic
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The first meeting of the PVHS PTO-Boosters' Club is Monday, September 13 at 7:00 PM in the Media Center. Please come out to support our students.
Welcome Back!
Classes begin on Monday, August 16. We welcome many new staff members and students to PVHS.
CREST Opens with the Class of 2014
Paradise Valley district launches science, tech center
by Eugene Scott - Aug. 14, 2010 06:21 AM
The Arizona Republic
When classes in the Paradise Valley Unified start Monday, the Center for Research in Engineering, Science and Technology at Paradise Valley High School will be launched.
More than 100 freshman will make up the first class at CREST, according to Linda Coyle, CREST coordinator. The program plans to add a new grade each year.
"It is a wonderful facility, and we're really excited to get things going," she said.
The school is part of the Paradise Valley High campus at 40th Street and Bell Road and was built with a $3.2 million grant from Phoenix in partnership with Western Maricopa Education Center meant to increase the number of Arizona students pursuing careers in science and technology.
Students will take CREST classes in the new building while taking other classes in the main building. The center's first students will take one CREST class each day, spending the rest of the school day in PVHS classrooms.
Paradise Valley High School Principal Cindy Davis said 80 percent of the students enrolled in the new program are from within the district and 30 percent of those would have gone to Paradise Valley High anyway.
The remaining 20 percent come from other districts and private schools.
CREST will open with three teachers in three areas - sustainability, biotechnology and engineering - and officials hope to add expert teachers each year with each incoming class.
Sustainability teacher Andrew Bernier was teaching general science to middle-school students in the Glendale  District when he heard about CREST.
Sustainability is the study of maintaining a current level of comfort over a very long term while having the most positive impact and reducing the most negative impacts, Bernier said.
"It has been my firm belief since my undergraduate career and teaching science and math these two years that we need to incorporate principles of sustainability into the everyday curriculum if we are to go on as a species, especially with the fragile resources in Arizona," he said, adding that it's a "dream opportunity" for him.
In addition to working with higher-education institutions in the state and beyond, CREST plans to partner with businesses and professionals in the Valley's STEM, or science, technology, engineering, mathematics, industries. The hope is that additional instruction, internships and community-service activities will be established from these partnerships.
"We have an amazing amount of resources and an opportunity to provide our students with what will truly prepare them to be a truly educated workforce," Coyle said.
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