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A new leader has started at the Early Childhood Education Center at Salt River Schools. Dr. Heaven Sepulveda was recently announced as ECEC’s new leader. To help ensure that parents, guardians and families could have the opportunity to meet her, ECEC held two welcome gatherings on Feb. 23 and 24...
Salt River Elementary School student Ava Sixkiller is the winner of the AZ529 Art Contest,Kindergarten division. “I like to draw all the time,” said Sixkiller, who is always excited to get the opportunity to draw at school. She will receive $529 toward her AZ529 Education Savings Plan, a college savings...
A special performance took place at Salt River Schools in February. On February 5, the Education Native Language and Cultural team hosted a night of traditional storytelling at the Accelerated Learning Academy lecture hall. Stories were told by Culture Teacher Teresa Gonzales and Culture Specialist Hilary Smith. Before the storytelling...
The little ones chopped and mixed ingredients together on a recent morning at Salt River Schools. Their tiny hands were busy, and the smiling was contagious across the room. The Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) took salad to the next level with the Blue Watermelon Project and Salt River Schools...
In the O’odham language, vaila or waila means dance. Vaila is also known by many as chicken scratch, a type of music and social dance that brings everyone together for a good time. For many Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members and those of sibling tribes, vailas are significant throughout their whole lives. There...
The program operates under the SRPMIC Education Division and offers free developmental screenings for children up to 5 years old. 3 Takeaways: Early childhood is a formative time that shapes how children develop as they grow into toddlers, tweens, teenagers and adults. Here in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community,...
“Let’s do the frybread clap!” exclaimed Salt River Schools Food Service Program Manager Shannon Reina as she demonstrated preparing a traditional meal with Arizona State University students, faculty and cultural anthropologist chef Amber Sampson at the Accelerated Learning Academy kitchen on Dec. 6. The class clapped along gleefully with Reina,...
Salt River Elementary School held its annual holiday Jingle Jog run on Dec. 17, roughly a week before Christmas Day. Students, families and friends gathered at the school’s courtyard to begin stretching with Scottsdale Community College mascot Artie the Artichoke and Sammy the Squirrel from Great Wolf Lodge. The school...
Christmas magic made its way into the Accelerated Learning Academy gymnasium on Dec. 11, as Salt River Schools and departments from around the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community partnered to host an event where everything was centered around literacy, books and reading. Staffers manned a little more than 20 booths,...
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