Please see the February issue of The District Dialogue, Laveen School District’s monthly e-newsletter.

The Life Time Foundation’s Chef Kent has been visiting Laveen schools to train child nutrition staff on preparing ramen bowls with chicken and oven-fried rice. They will conduct student taste tests and get feedback to determine if these items will make it onto our menu next school year.

Laveen’s Child Nutrition Department has partnered with the Life Time Foundation to support its mission to ensure all of our students receive nutritious meals to support academic excellence in a positive environment. Chef Kent periodically provides culinary training to staff to implement more speed-scratch cooking, work to reduce the amount of highly processed foods on our menus, and phase out foods that contain “ingredients of concern.”

Governing Board Clerk Michele Anderson joined in the lesson and was charged with preparing fresh ginger for the first culinary lesson.

Learn more: https://www.laveenschools.org/programs-services/child-nutrition/life-time-foundation/

The Laveen School District is hosting a job fair for teachers interested in joining our team. The job fair will be held on February 29, 2024, from 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Laveen Education Center, 5001 W. Dobbins. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with Laveen administrators including school principals.

Congratulations to Laveen’s Communications Team for receiving the Copper Medallion Award from the Arizona School Public Relations Association. They received the award for the Mission: Kindergarten project.

The Copper Medallion is awarded to comprehensive, well-planned district-wide public relations programs. Laveen is one of only two school districts in Arizona to receive this year’s award and the only district in the under 10,000 student category.

Laveen also received Awards of Excellence for the “I Love Laveen Schools” social media campaign and a writing proposal for the naming of Sandomir Way.

Laveen’s communications team includes Kristen Landry, Director and Jessica Begazo, Specialist.