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District Awards

Osborn School District #8

Osborn Schools' AZ Learns Designations

Clarendon Receives A+ School of Excellence Award 2009 Superintendent Wilma Basnett is pleased to announce that Clarendon School was selected to receive the prestigious A+ School of Excellence Award from the Arizona Educational Foundation. CONGRATULATIONS to Principal Sandy Meko and the entire staff on receiving their well deserved A+ SCHOOL designation!
Osborn Receives A+ Exemplary Program Awards A+ Dual Language Award: Spanish Dual Language Immersion Program is currently at Encanto, Clarendon, and Osborn Middle Schools A+ Peace Award: The Peace Program is at Montecito School A+ Ballet Award: The Ballet Program serves students from 3rd - 8th grade at Encanto, Clarendon, and Osborn Middle Schools A+ STAR Award: The Safety, Teamwork, Achievement, and Respect Program is at Longview School
Osborn Ballet Program Receives Golden Bell Award The Osborn School District Ballet Program offers professionally oriented ballet training after school for boys and girls with related studies, activities and fieldtrips. Currently in its seventh year, it has contributed to improved student achievement and added additional depth and breadth of education and experience. The program annually attracts in excess of 60 fourth through sixth graders from Clarendon School with an additional 50 third grade students from sister school Encanto and continuing seventh and eighth grade students from Osborn Middle School. The overarching goal is to make professionally oriented ballet training available to students who do not have access to it. Students have earned the privilege of auditioning with professional dance companies and receiving scholarships for further study. The program includes academic work and Nutrition classes in addition to dance study. The Osborn Ballet Program is supported by Tax Credit donations, the Osborn Educational Foundation, and the 21st Century Community Learning Center after-school grant.
All Arizona Superintendent of the Year Award 2008 Congratulations to Superintendent Wilma Basnett, PhD. for receiving the All Arizona Superintendent of the Year Award for middle sized districts. Wilma Basnett has served the Osborn District for 21 years as Superintendent. She shares this award with the entire Osborn Staff and Board who make this district not only “look” good but “be” good and continue to get better and better! Osborn District Board members Kelly Parker, Sarah Hall, Maxine Radtke, Superintendent Wilma Basnett, and Board members Marilyn Rollins and Dean Wolcott”
Total Board Award for Osborn School District Governing Board 2009 Congratulations to the Osborn School District Governing Board on receiving the Total Board Award in recognition of their ongoing commitment to continuous learning. Only five district boards in the state received this award! The award is granted to a governing board when at least a quorum of its members has attained the level of training and education to receive Arizona’s School Board Association (ASBA) certificate of Boardsmanship (36 CEUs in five core curriculum areas). The remaining members must have earned their certificates of orientation. (This is the third such award for Osborn!) It is nice to know that our Board Members are such great role models for life-long learning.

Oz Scholars Project: Improving Literacy Through School Libraries

Osborn One of Two AZ Districts selected for Competitive Federal Literacy through School Libraries Grant

Osborn Libraries have benefited from the Federal Literacy through School Libraries grant. The overarching goal of the grant is to improve literacy through updating and improving Osborn libraries. More than 13,500 books, 69 computers, and more than 300 electronic media titles have been purchased. Books & materials supporting pre-literacy skills, language learning, and Family-Centered Literacy for parents and pre-reading children were also purchased at Encanto, Longview, Montecito, and Solano. Additionally, NetTrekker and BrainPop internet subscriptions were purchased to support student technical literacy. Across the district there has been increased monthly book circulation averaging 130% per student over last year. The largest increase was seen at the Middle School with a 218% increase! Congratulations to Osborn Library Media Specialists Ann Sueyoshi, Lori Sanders, Meg Williams, Diane Less, Jennifer Beyer, and Sharon Johnson.

All Osborn Schools Have Received 21st Century Community Learning Centers 5-Year After School Grant

Montecito School Joins the 21st Century CLICK

Montecito has been awarded the 21st CCLC grant in 2007. Osborn can now boast that all six schools offer extensive after school, summer school, and parent programming. This is unique in the state; no other school district has this grant at all schools. The programs proposed as part of this grant focus on enrichment courses for students designed to improve their academic performance and provide extended learning opportunities to them, their parents and family members. Each school taps into numerous community partnerships to provide assistance through volunteerism, service implementation, and in-kind contributions. These collaborative partners will be private agencies, health care officials, City of Phoenix employees, and businesses. Additionally, the support of an established and involved staff and administration on each campus will ensure the integration of standards-based curriculum into the after-school and summer components.

The “Center of Learning Improvement for Community and Kids” (CLICK) program will provide services that compliment and support the school day activities while filling the academic learning gaps children face. These programs will have a whole child approach that takes into consideration all aspects of student success including physical safety, emotional well-being, and academic opportunities Our AIMS Reading scores indicate that literacy must be a top priority of our after-school and summer programs for all grades. These classes are data driven, designed with research-based strategies and provide specific interventions to address indicated needs. Math classes support achievement by focusing on targeted performance objectives, offering hands-on experiences and teaching mathematics in “real world” context.

We envision our campuses providing challenge, the acquisition of knowledge and recognition to our students and their families in a safe environment, on a year-round basis—community supporting students to develop independence and passion for learning.

ASU President Crow's Medal for Social Embeddedness

Osborn/ASU Professional Development School (PDS) Partnership received an award from ASU in 2007

Best Practice Award for Effective Partnerships

Osborn/ASU Professional Development School (PDS) Partnership received an award from the American Assoc for Colleges for Teacher Education

Designed to recruit, prepare, place and retain high-quality new teachers in high-poverty, urban and rural partner school districts, the project has two major initiatives: 1) a district-based, immersion-style PDS teacher preparation program for initial certification; and 2) distance learning-based, graduate-level coursework in mathematics, reading and science targeted to existing teachers in the partner districts. PDS TENET-prepared first-year teachers have been found to score higher than their campus-prepared counterparts in the quality of their standards-based lesson plans and videotaped teaching effectiveness. Further, the students of PDS-prepared first-year teachers have scored significantly higher on reading (SAT9 Total Reading Scores) than students taught by first-year teachers prepared in other teacher education programs.

http://www.aacte.org/News/Press_Room/07awdeffectivepart.pdf

Outstanding Community Service Partner for 2007

Osborn's longstanding partnership was recently recognized by Make a Difference Osborn School District hosts several service events each year in partnership with Make a Difference. Make a Difference is a local non-profit organization specializing in volunteer service coordination. The district is also collaborating with Make a Difference on a new tutoring program for volunteers.   Serv-a-thon volunteers at Encanto School

AZ Learns Designations

The Arizona Department of Education has created school designation profiles in compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind laws. These designation profiles are as follows. Please note that Performing Plus designated schools have scored as high as Highly Performing or Excelling designated schools, however, the distribution of the top AIMS scores is less broad. For more information click here.