Office of Human Resources - Employee Recognition
Past Winners: President's Medal for Social Embeddedness
The President's Medal for Social Embeddedness recognizes teams that have demonstrated excellence in partnering with Arizona communities to develop and implement programs or projects that positively embed ASU in the social and cultural fabric of our surrounding communities.
2007-2008 Award Recipients
Arizona HealthQuery:
A Community-University Partnership
Arizona HealthQuery (AZHQ) is a living community health data system that serves as a continuous resource for the information needed by researchers, policymakers, clinicians and community leaders to improve the health and health care of Arizona residents. AZHQ was created by the voluntary participation of health care providers, insurers and employers in Arizona.
AZHQ consists of a unique, massive relational database containing all essential demographic, clinical and financial elements of administrative health data on millions of Arizona residents. Its uniqueness rests in its ability to combine the administrative health data from a variety of health organizations into one community health data system, which can track the health care of individuals and populations over time and across providers.
The AZHQ database is queried frequently by data partners who use the database for grant proposals, program analysis and other projects. AZHQ has been successfully used in a wide range of community health studies on asthma, emergency department utilization, racial disparities in health care, patient safety and other topics. Efforts are focused on building additional data and research partnerships.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners | |
Wade Bannister, Center for Health Information and Research
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Amanda Aguirre, Regional Center for Border Health |
Tricia Johnson, Rush University Medical Center Jeffrey Joyce, Maricopa Integrated Health System Jeffrey Kang, CIGNA Healthcare James Kennedy, Maricopa Integrated Health System Jacqueline Lundblad, Sun Health Corporation Wendy Lyons, Scottsdale HealthcareEmilia Matos, Pediatric Associates of Yuma Tara McCollum Plese, Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Elizabeth McNamee, St. Luke's Health Initiatives Debbie Nixon, Your Partners in Quality, LLC Lisa Picaso, TMC Healthcare William Pike, Carondelet Health Network Richard Porter, Arizona Department of Health Services Judy Rich, TMC Healthcare Anthony Rodgers, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System David Rogers, Sunset Community Health Center - Somerton Ann Roggenbuck, North Country Healthcare Linda Ross, Arizona Association of Community Health Centers Avein Saaty-Tafoya, Clinica Adelante, Inc. Peggy Stemmler, Stemmler and Associates John Swagert, Mountain Park Health Center Julian Villanueva, Pediatric Associates of Yuma Wickenburg Community Hospital Mark Wiest, CIGNA Healthcare Gay Williams, Health Net of Arizona, Inc. |
The Arizona State University
and Teach For America Partnership
Arizona State University and Teach For America have joined forces to address Arizona’s most pressing educational needs. A socially embedded partnership has been established that brings ASU resources and expertise to bear on education in Arizona through a multi-pronged approach of recruitment, teacher support and development, and alumni leadership.
Specifically, this partnership fosters innovation in education to ensure the future success of our children and our state through the development of an Induction, Master’s and Certification program; educational incentives such as full fellowships and recruitment activities; and the selection of ASU as the Teach For America Phoenix Summer Institute site. The impact of this partnership is evident through the number of Teach For America corps members enrolled in ASU’s education programs, the increased attention toward high-needs schools, the enhanced collaboration between ASU faculty and local school districts and the dramatic increase in ASU students’ Teach For America corps member applications. The ASU and Teach For America partnership furthers ASU’s goal of being a socially embedded university and also establishes ASU as the premier higher education partner of Teach For America.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners | |
Daniel Ashlock, Associated Students
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Sandra Johnson, University Technology Office Michael Kelley, CTEL, Elementary Education Louis Kelly, University Technology Office Mari Koerner, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Melissa Krewson, Residential Life Robert Lane, Digital Document Services Ida Malian, CTEL, Special Education Kim Marrone, Office of University Initiatives Suzanne Painter, CTEL, Graduate Studies Andrew Perkins, Sun Card Office Laura Ploughe, Business Applications and Fiscal Control Peter Rillero, CTEL, Secondary Education Pamela Sanchez, Campus Recreation Tammy Taber, Residential Life Operations Kathy Tibbetts, Office of Classroom Scheduling |
Michelle Berg, Teach For America Carolina de Rosas, Teach For America Yuanxia Ding, Teach For America Rosemary Gaona, Arizona Department of Education Brandi Heatherly, Aramark Food Services James Jorgenson, Aramark Food Services Sarah Kirby, Teach For America Jenny MacDonald, United Parcel Services Will Seamans, Teach For America Andrea Stouder, Teach For America Demitra Taylor, Teach For America Katie Tennessen, Teach For America |
Naco Fire District
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Partnership
The Naco Fire District Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Partnership (SAP) is a collaboration between the southeastern cross-border community of Naco, AZ, and Arizona State University, which embodies the very spirit of the New American University by providing a disadvantaged community with the resources necessary to improve quality of life while fostering relationships that encourage independence and shared knowledge. Facilitated by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants, the Partnership addresses cross-border environmental themes, community development and enrichment, education, historic preservation and cross-border revitalization.
Highlights include:
- providing environmental assessment services to document environmentally safe natural resources for community development activities,
- directly contributing to sanitation improvements for both Naco, AZ, and its adjacent sister community of Naco, Sonora, Mexico,
- providing ASU graduate students with opportunities for hands-on, real-world experience, in addition to educating students on region-specific environmental justice and socioeconomic issues faced by U.S./Mexico border communities, and
- encouraging ongoing partnerships between community leaders and private parties, which contribute to independence and improved quality of life.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Anne Therese Carpenter, Morrison School of Agribusiness |
Rebecca Orozco, Center for Lifelong Learning |
2006-2007 Medal Recipients
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Immigration Law & Policy Clinic
The Immigration Law & Policy Clinic provides legal services to undocumented individuals, mostly battered children, seeking to obtain immigration relief such as asylum. For example, last year the clinic represented a child with mental retardation who had lived in the streets of Mexico for four years before making his way to the United States, and another child who fled his country after his father sexually abused him. In addition to representing clients, the ASU law students provide brief legal consultations at local nonprofit agencies, advising individuals seeking to naturalize or to file immigration petitions for relatives. Moreover, the clinic mentors pro bono attorneys, providing them with sample pleadings and research assistance.
Clinic students receive six units academic credit for their participation. During the course of the semester, each student spends an average of 300 hours in clinic activities. Such activities include courtroom training, pro bono court representation, and case development.
The clinic works closely with the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, the Phoenix Immigration Court, and Friendly House. The Clinic’s primary accomplishments have been 1) to address the current vacuum of immigration services in the State of Arizona by providing services and mentorship to pro bono attorneys and agencies; 2) to successfully advocate on behalf of over a dozen detained juveniles; and 3) to advance the clinic students’ legal learning, social awareness, leadership capabilities, and ethical consciousness.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Evelyn Cruz, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law |
Aryah Somers, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Richard Tobin, Lewis & Rocca, LLP |
New American City: Artists Look Forward
New American City: Artists Look Forward is a public/private partnership of multiple ASU departments, community organizations and 150 Maricopa County-based artists to explore the role of artists and the art being produced in one of the fastest growing and changing metropolitan areas in the country – Phoenix.
The project’s goal was to raise public awareness and generate meaningful dialog about the importance of an active arts community in the present and future of our city. For the anchoring exhibition at the ASU Art Museum, the curators visited 80 studios and selected work by 23 artists that demonstrated a marked level of experimentation and investigation, and an impressive range of media and styles, to comment on our city. The project has generated increased conversation about our city’s visual culture among participants in programs, a 45% increase in Museum attendance and 104,000 visits to the website. On and off campus, the project included seven concurrent exhibitions and publications and more than 30 collaborative community programs. Local, national and international press coverage appeared in more than 40 print and media outlets. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/newamericancity/index.html
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Sherry Ahrentzen, The Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family |
Cindy Dach, Changing Hands Bookstore Rick Engelmann, Chandler High School Greg Esser, Roosevelt Row CDC Allen Goode, Hillstone Restaurant Group Ken Keene, Centennial High School Tim Kelly, Hillstone Restaurant Group Kimber Lanning, Stinkweed Records Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital Nancy Scott Lyon, Nancy Scott Lyon Public Relations Myra Millinger, Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture Matthew Moore, Sycamore Farms Jahm Najafi, Najafi Companies Rebecca Ross, Eye Lounge Matthew Salenger, coLAB Maria Salenger, coLAB Kate Timmerman, Eye Lounge Alicia Wadas, The Lavidge Company Jamie Watts, Ironwood High School Cyd West, Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture Vanessa Westfall, small giants Denice Westover, Snowflake High School |
Professional Development School Teacher Education Network of Excellence through Technology
The Professional Development School Teacher Education Network of Excellence through Technology (PDS TENET) project is a collaboration between ASU’s College of Teacher Education and Leadership and seven urban and rural school districts. Providing high-quality district-based teacher preparation in historically underserved communities that struggle to get and keep high quality teachers is the aim of the partnership. Features of the PDS TENET project include:
Immersion-style teacher preparation programs that allow candidates to earn a degree and become a teacher without leaving their community; Graduate-level Content Academy professional development for partner district classroom teachers in reading, mathematics, and science delivered through interactive videoconference; True shared-governance and decision-making fostering joint program ownership; A program delivery model that combines district-based presence of ASU faculty (i.e., High Touch) with rich access to ASU's resources through distance technology (i.e., High Tech).
New teachers prepared in this partnership have been documented to outperform new teachers prepared in other programs, and the Content Academies provide existing teachers with high quality professional development and advanced degree opportunities. When ASU Teacher Educators are immersed in the daily realities of it school partners, educational programming from primary to graduate school is continuously refined and improved. ASU students gain from this collaborative teacher preparation where no one falls between the cracks of poor university-school communications. Ultimately, the strength of PDS TENET has proven to come from high-integrity collaboration where partner districts and ASU faculty and students have accepted the challenge to learn from each other.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners | |
Nicholas Appleton, Mary Lou Fulton College of Education |
Steve Klister, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Mari Koerner, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Angie Linder, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Faye Luna, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Linda Montoya, College of Teacher Education and Leadership George Powers, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Scott Ridley, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Michelle Rojas, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Sonia Saenz, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Kelly Stranathan, College of Teacher Education and Leadership William Svoboda, (now retired) College of Teacher Education and Leadership Tracy Tadrick, College of Teacher Education and Leadership Rose Welsh, College of Teacher Education and Leadership |
Javier Abrego, Chinle Unified School District Wilma Basnett, Osborn Elementary School District April Edwards, Global Nomad Consulting Joe Frazier, Indian Oasis-Baboquivari Unified School District Eugene Judson, Arizona Department of Education Earl Pettit, Whiteriver Unified School District Mary Pistor, Osborn Elementary School District Pam Santesteban, Madison School District Cathy Stafford, Avondale Elementary School District Joann Talazus, (retired) Osborn Elementary School District Patricia Tate, Osborn Elementary School District Gail Zamar, Douglas Unified School District |
2005-2006 Medal Recipients
Arizona Bullying Prevention Partnership
The Arizona Bullying Prevention Partnership is a public/private collaboration largely supported by the Arizona Parents Commission on Drug Education and Prevention. The partnership includes:
Governor’s Office for Children, Youth, and Families, Division for Substance Abuse Policy Men’s Anti-Violence Network (an initiative of the Arizona Foundation for Women) Arizona State University - Arizona Prevention Resource Center (APRC)
The main goal of the Bullying Prevention Project is to provide a safer environment and more positive climate for learning in schools through the reduction and prevention of inappropriate bullying behavior, violence and negative social interactions. Since the fall semester of 2003 over 55,000 students in 82 elementary and middle schools in 26 school districts throughout the state of Arizona have participated with statistically positive results. Results have shown that within the first year of implementation schools had a 44% decrease in the number of bullies on their campus. Project goals are being achieved through the implementation of the evidence-based Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.
The Arizona Prevention Resource Center administers the data collection, analysis and report-writing for each school, in addition to providing technical assistance for program implementation. Through trainings the Center builds the capacity in schools to sustain/expand the program themselves, and markets the opportunity to participate by making presentations to potential schools and to outside organizations. Through the coming years it is the intent of the partnership to ensure the continued success of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in over 100 Arizona schools that will impact over 70,000 students, making our schools a safer and positive experience for all students. This project is central to the APRC’s focus on assisting schools and communities throughout Arizona to implement more effective research-based models for drug and violence prevention and increasing positive social outcomes.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Ruby R. Alvarado Hernandez, Arizona Prevention Resource Center |
Nancy A. Dean, Arizona Foundation for Women, Men's Anti-Violence Network Jodi Beckley Liggett, Arizona Foundation for Women, Men's Anti-Violence Network Sanzanna C. Lolis, Arizona Parents Commission on Drug Education and Prevention Rob Evans, Governor's Division for Substance Abuse Policy |
Service at Salado engages local schoolchildren in a habitat-restoration project that has become a centerpiece of their school and neighborhood communities. This partnership of ASU and the City of Phoenix’s Rio Salado Project has established after-school clubs at four elementary schools in South Phoenix. With funding from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, ASU’s University-School Partnerships, and the National Science Foundation, Service at Salado enables students from underserved and disadvantaged communities to gain experience in ecology and civic involvement. In the process, they practice environmental stewardship and come to see themselves as agents of change to conserve and improve their local landscape. The value of Service at Salado is not limited to local schoolchildren and their commun ities; ASU under graduates run the clubs and gain hands-on experience in establishing an environmental education program. Benefits accrue to the ASU community as these undergraduates learn to develop inquiry-based lessons, mentor schoolchildren, and communicate science to a diverse audience.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Monica Elser, Global Institute of Sustainability |
Cheryl McNab, Arizona Audubon Danielle Taddy, City of Phoenix, Parks and Recreation Dept. Juan Gallardo, CO Greenfield Elementary School Deborah Banks, Innovative Tailor-Made Training & Technology Alice Trujillo, Lowell Elementary School Georgina Takemoto, Phoenix Elementary School District Mark Dowling, Roosevelt Elementary School District Sergio Gutierrez, Sunland Elementary School John Wann, Valley View Elementary School |
Tempe Early Reading First Partnership
The Tempe Early Reading First Partnership, a collaboration among ASU’s Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Maricopa County Head Start, Tempe Elementary School District, and the Arizona Literacy and Learning Center, is working to improve the early literacy skills of young children in our community to prepare them to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early literacy skills to prevent reading difficulties and to ensure school success.
Eleven preschool teaching teams and administrators have received more than 100 hours of professional development through ASU classes accompanied by 300 hours of in-classroom mentoring. Three hundred sixty children have benefited from their teachers’ increased expertise and the $140,000 in early literacy materials that have enriched their classroom environments. Children in the project, including those receiving special education services and those who speak Spanish as their primary language, have shown significantly greater gains in alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and print awareness than children in control classrooms. ASU students have gained valuable experience volunteering in classrooms and working on the research team. The success of this partnership is helping set community standards for what constitutes quality, research-based early childhood education.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Shelley Gray, Speech & Hearing Science |
Terry Doolan, Arizona Department of Education Marjorie Jones, Arizona Literacy and Learning Center Deborah Kendall, Arizona Literacy and Learning Center Maria Munoz, Maricopa County Head Start Andrea Colby, Tempe Elementary School District #3 Kim Burch, Tots Unlimited |
2004-2005 Medal Recipients
Club ASU, a program through the Office of Public Affairs, is a unique youth and community outreach program connecting students and their families to Arizona State University.
Focusing on underserved schools and students with little to no family history of college education, Club ASU fosters the understanding that higher education is achievable. Students, grades 7-12, and their families are invited to free club-sponsored events, including athletics, fine arts, cultural, and educational events. The whole family has the opportunity to explore Arizona State University in an "up close and personal" way. Once enrolled, Club ASU tracks member interests and participation in events, while keeping in touch with them through mail and e-mail promotional pieces.
Club ASU partners with existing outreach programs throughout ASU, including Intercollegiate Athletics, Undergraduate Admissions, and Public Events. Since its launch in the fall of 2003, Club ASU has hosted over 3,000 students and parents from communities all over the state of Arizona.
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Kids and Asthma: A Report to the Yuma Community
Asthma is the most common childhood chronic disease in the United States. The Health and Disability Research Group in the W. P. Carey School of Business examined childhood asthma in Yuma County, Arizona and produced Kids and Asthma: A Report to the Yuma Community. This report is the product of a unique partnership of researchers from Arizona State University and employers, health care providers, legislators, educators, and public health leaders from Yuma County. It provides comprehensive demographic, health care utilization, and insurance information on Yuma County children receiving treatment for asthma between 1999 and 2001.
The information is being used by the community to develop intervention programs aimed at improving preventive health care services and access to care for children with asthma. Since its initial release, Kids and Asthma has been distributed to other health care organizations across the state and nation. The partnership, and the continued dissemination of Kids and Asthma, is one of many examples of the rich work that can be accomplished when ASU and community collaborate to improve health.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners | |
Wade Bannister, School of Health Management and Policy |
Amanda Aguirre, Regional Center for Border Health Hugo Aguirre, Yuma Regional Medical Center Toni Badone, Yuma Union High School District Steve Bell, Yuma HealthQuery Cheryl Bell, Yuma Regional Medical Center Charlotte Boyle, Creighton Elementary School District Becky Brooks, Yuma County Department of Public Health David Brooks, Yuma County Department of Public Health Robert Cannell, Arizona Senate Kim Cirelli, Women's Health Specialists Michael Coleman, EXCEL Group Daniel Crawford, Yuma Pediatrics, Ltd. Cathy Eden, Arizona Department of Health Services Terry Eisenberg, Alhambra Elementary School District Todd Hirte, Yuma Regional Medical Center |
Dave Hoovestol, Southwest Emergency Physicians |
Learner-Centered Leadership for Language & Culturally Diverse Schools
Since October 2002, the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Arizona State University has been implementing an emerging professional development program for school leaders in collaboration with the Southwest Center for Educational Equity and Language Diversity and four urban school districts in the Phoenix area. The grant draws from both university research and theory and the applied expertise of practicing administrators from the four participating school districts.
During the past two years, the Learner-Centered Leadership program has accomplished the following:
- Identified, recruited, and selected 32 prospective administrators for a Masters in Educational Administration and Supervision and administrative certification program. Twenty-seven of the 32 graduated in December 2004.
- Identified, recruited and selected 35 rising administrators who have been receiving personalized, one-on-one mentoring as well as access to inter-district resources and knowledge as they implement action plans that focus on professional growth related to specific site needs.
- Identified, recruited, and selected 32 experienced and accomplished administrators who have been sharing knowledge and expertise through mentoring, workshops, and labs as well as co-teaching opportunities with ASU faculty in the certification program.
- Identified, recruited, and selected 6 district liaisons who have been acting as conduits between the university and districts as well as facilitators and curriculum planners of program activities.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Gerald Blankson, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies |
Charlotte Boyle, Creighton Elementary School District Terry Eisenberg, Alhambra Elementary School District Deb Huffaker, Creighton Elementary School District Art Lebowitz, Phoenix Union High School District Jim McElroy, Phoenix Union High School District Katie McKenzie, Roosevelt Elementary School District James Rice, Alhambra Elementary School District Marion Williams, Roosevelt Elementary School District |
2003-2004 Medal Recipients
A Nursing Clinic at Central Arizona Shelter Services
Community Health Nursing Practice Standards clearly recognize healthcare as a right of all people, and it is the responsibility of Community Health Nurses to identify those who 'fall between the gaps' and provide them care. This belief guides the College of Nursing's partnership with Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS). The shelter serves homeless men and women at its downtown Phoenix facility, providing shelter, case management, and now, health care. Each day, 400+ individuals may be in residence.
This nursing clinic was established by Kay Jarrell, MS, RN and Judy Lersch, MS, RN because of their passion and commitment to serving this under-served population. In establishing this clinic, not only do the CASS residents receive free, American-class nursing care, but senior nursing students, graduate students and faculty benefit from this unique educational and practice setting. Each semester over 50 students in the undergraduate BSN program, RN to BSN program, and nurse practitioner program participate in the nursing clinic at the shelter. Two days a week, students provide a range of services to shelter residents: early detection and screening (i.e. health assessment, diabetic and TB screening), treatment (i.e. wound care, foot care), referrals for treatment (i.e. mental health, HIV case management), and health monitoring (blood pressures, medications).
Shelter residents look forward to receiving nursing care and health education. Students develop respect and understanding of a vulnerable population and become strong advocates for people who are homeless. The entire College of Nursing has adopted this program as a model for community health nursing experience and provided support to students and faculty who serve the homeless residents of CASS.
Graduates of the program have expressed an interest in developing a volunteer nursing service at the shelter and have made commitments to serve the homeless population in some manner regardless of their area of practice.
| ASU Team Members |
Kay Jarrell, College of Nursing |
ASU's College Knowledge Project
The College Knowledge Project is an inter-departmental collaboration of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Public Affairs, and K-12 schools to extend college awareness and increase college-going expectations of Valley middle school students and their families.
Building on the community education partnerships that ASU's Academic Community Engagement Services has developed over the past decade, and adding the expertise of the Division of Undergraduate Academic Services, University Undergraduate Initiatives, Student Affairs' Community Service Program, and the Office of Public Affair's Club ASU, The College Knowledge Project was developed in partnership with Laird Elementary, Gililland Middle School, and Tempe High School to inspire and support activities that increase community knowledge about and interest in attending a college or university, and to provide middle school students and their parents with information about the accessibility and affordability of college.
Since its launch in March 2003, College Knowledge Project team members have already made seven presentations to over 150 4th through 8th grade children and two presentations to over 50 of their parents, generating pre-/post-survey results of measurable impact.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Ken Hollin, Undergraduate Admissions |
Jacob Chavez, Gililland Middle School Frank Klajda, Laird Elementary School James Scofield, Tempe High School Sam Lackland, Tempe High School |
Early Start to College, a project of the Hispanic Border Leadership Institute within the College of Education at Arizona State University, is designed to provide essential early information to the central Maricopa area Latino 8th and 9th graders and their parents about college academic preparation, selecting a college, admissions requirements, the application process, and financial aid possibilities. The goal of the program is to motivate students who would be less likely to plan for college due to economic or familial circumstances.
Early Start to College was begun with a grant from Lumina Foundation's McCabe Fund, which supports organizations that enable students - particularly first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color - to broaden and make the most of their opportunities in postsecondary education. As Martha D. Lamkin, President and CEO of Lumina Foundation stated, "We are optimistic that these grassroots initiatives . . . will help reduce the nation's college attainment gap by assisting organizations, such as the Hispanic Border Leadership Institute, that help students achieve their potential by expanding access to an education beyond high school."
Early start to College is now serving 500 students and over 200 parents in cooperation with Isaac, Phoenix, Tempe, and Tolleson Elementary School Districts; Phoenix and Tolleson Union Districts; Stardust House, Phoenix Teacher Prep Charter High School; and Phoenix, South Mountain, and Estrella Mountain Community Colleges.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partners |
Jasmin De Leon, Hispanic Border Leadership Institute |
Pete Garcia, Cesar Chavez High School Jacob Chavez, Gililland Middle School Kent Paredes Scribner, Isaac Elementary School District Lilly Shults, Isaac Middle School Jim Paxinos, P.H. Gonzales Elementary Rebecca Valenzuela, Phoenix College Corina Gardea, Phoenix College Rene Diaz, Phoenix Elementary School District Dan Garcia, Phoenix Prep Academy Consuelo Nava, Phoenix Prep Academy Isabel LeRoy, South Mountain College Linda Walker, SW Student Services Corp |
Expanding Boundaries - Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre
Dance Arizona Repertory Theater (DART) is the community partnership dance company of the Department of Dance at Arizona State University. DART's most prominent objective is to develop long-term collaborative and creative partnerships with culturally diverse and underserved after-school programs. Under the direction of ASU Dance faculty and facilitated in cooperation with ASU students, DART continually strives to provide quality arts programming that results in an experience, not only in art education, but also in developing life skills that address issues of leadership, sharing, respect and pro-active problem solving.
DART has founded partnerships with Sylvestre S. Herrera School for the Fine Arts, Boys and Girls Clubs of the East Valley, and the Thomas J. Pappas School for Migrant Youth, and Peoria School District. At each site, youth are engaged in collaborative artistic workshops with local and national guest artists that challenge them in their approach to educational and practical concepts. The participating youth are provided with an open, safe and nurturing after-school environment; a need of the surrounding communities of ASU, Arizona and our nation.
| ASU Team Members | Community Partner |
ASU Team Members: |
Susan Bendix, Herrera School for the Fine Arts |