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October 2000

Superintendent's Message

Since first meeting in September, there have been a few changes. 

First of all the superintendent's cabinet has now changed its title and will be referred to as the Leadership Team, or LT. 

Members include all former cabinet participants: Elaine Rice, interim Area I Assistant Superintendent; Roger Pfueffer, Area II Assistant Superintendent; Gene Benton, Area III Assistant Superintendent; Patti Lopez, Area IV Assistant Superintendent; and Larry Williams, Area V Assistant Superintendent. 

In addition to a change in name, the Leadership team will also include the following three principals: Steve Wilson, principal at Sahuaro; Rosanne Neal, principal at Booth-Fickett; and Anna Rivera, principal at Lawrence Intermediate. 

Each will represent the high school, middle school and elementary school levels respectively. 

On Oct. 7, at the Governing Board retreat held at Tucson High Magnet School, I announced the LT Bold! Game Statement. 

The statement is the result of a collaboration with the Leadership Team. It states that it holds itself accountable so that by June 2005:

  • Every student exceeds all expected performance standards.
  • Every student graduates and is able to compete and succeed in a global society.
  • No student is left behind.

Adopted by the Governing Board at the October meeting, the statement also outlined the following measures:

  1. Students exceed expected AIMS Standards.
  2. 100 % of students graduate.
  3. 100 % attendance for students.
  4. 0 % student retention.
  5. 0 % suspensions/expulsions.
  6. 0 percent dropout rate.
  7. SAT/ACT scores exceed national average.

Achieving these measures will require the utmost energy and time from all of us. I know many will ask how such goals are to be met but I would like to leave you with a question: "Which student should we give up on?"

I look forward to working with the Leadership Team, employees and community members toward these goals.

Estanislado "Stan" Paz, Ph.D.

 

Wakefield to Have Corrido Video Shown at 
D.C. Conference

Two students and a teacher at Wakefield Middle School will have a video of them singing a "corrido", or Mexican folk song, shown at the National Meeting of GEAR UP Program Directors and Partners, which will be held Oct. 30 through Nov. 1 in Washington, D.C.

Juan Garcia and Francisco Gutierrez, both eighth-graders, wrote the ballad with their teacher Arnulfo Velásquez.

"We talked about it during a tutoring session and just decided to do it," said Velásquez.

The "corrido", titled "GEAR-UP" or "Building the Future", describes the program and the full scholarship Wakefield students received when they were third-graders at C.E. Rose.

GEAR UP expands the Building the Future program created in February 1998 by Tucson Rotary Clubs and UA. Both organizations made a commitment to pay for the UA education of these 101 students.

Wakefield principal Maria Cuesta-Patterson and project coordinator Debra Haddock will represent the school at the conference.

To read a section of the ballad, click here.

For a complete English and Spanish version please contact Wakefield at 617-6180.
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