Religious Instruction • Strong Academics • Cutting Edge Technology • Leadership Programs • PE and Interscholastic Sports • Instrumental and Vocal Music • “Arts Attack” Program • School Nurse • Bus Transportation Available 3901 East Indian School Road • 602-957-7010 • www.clsphx.org CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLS GRADUATING CLASS OF 2015! We wish you the best as you go off to high school. We hope that you take with you the many things you learned at CLS, including how to be a servant leader, as you follow in the footsteps of those that graduated before you by becoming student class offi cers, varsity athletes, editors of your yearbook, writers on your school newspaper and members of service and academic clubs. Congratulations! Page 20 June 2015 By Rachael Bouley A new tradition was born for Ingleside Middle School on Friday, April 24, when eighth-graders took a class excursion to the Grand Canyon, where they floated down the Colorado River with geologists. Casey Nosky, a third-grade teacher at Kiva Elementary School and a parent of an eighth- grader at Ingleside, was the main organizer behind the trip. Kiva Elementary used to have a sixth-grade trip, and Casey saw what an amazing experience it was for the kids. Years ago, Ingleside also had a trip, this one for the eighth-graders, but the tradition was lost. At the beginning of the school year, Casey went to the principal of Ingleside, Chad Caudle, and encouraged him to bring back the eighth-grade trip. With the support and encouragement of the administration and teachers, Casey began planning the adventure. She met with eighth- grade teachers to get their input on length and location. To make it easier and less expensive, they agreed on a day trip within Arizona. “It was important to me that it was something that the teachers wanted, and that it becomes a tradition for the school,” Casey said. Around midnight on the day of the trip, 135 eighth-graders and 14 chaperones traveled by bus to Page, Arizona, where they had breakfast and began their adventure. They were able to apply what they learned in their classes as they floated down the Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, with geologists for three hours. They then visited ancient civilization ruins and craters, before making their way to Northern Arizona University, where they got a taste of the college life with dinner in the dining hall. It was 21 hours of fun, friends, learning and making memories. Nearly half of the eighth-grade population went on the trip, and next year, they hope to have more students attend. While the cost of the trip was $235 dollars, a lot of it was covered through tax credit funds and donations. “A lot of students went on scholarship,” Casey said. “It was really important to myself, the administration and the teachers that the children would be able to attend, regardless of finances.” The support of the community made the trip possible, and it was a huge success. “Chipotle and the Arcadia Tavern were both very generous with a fundraiser dinner that we did for the trip,” Casey said. “We are very excited for the trip to continue and become a tradition.” For the students, the trip allowed them to see the natural beauty and wonder of the Grand Canyon from a different perspective. The waiting list for river floats is long, but the students had a special opportunity to go on an adventure with their peers. “It was such a positive thing for the kids to see things in our own state that they might never see,” Casey said. Ingleside Middle School eighth-graders floated down the Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon on a recent school trip. Eighth-graders at Ingleside take a trip to the Grand Canyon

GRADUATES Hats   he Congratulations graduates and proud parents. We wish you continued success! From the Arcadia News team. Page 21 June 2015 By Josh Cutlip Arcadia High School music teacher and recent Grammy Awards finalist, Richard Maxwell, has brought a whole new meaning to the words “music education.” It was only one year ago that Maxwell learned he was a quarter finalist to win an award for his development with the Contemporary Music and Sound program at Arcadia. The Grammy Foundation began granting an award that recognized music education and its importance to the music industry three years ago; this was something that Maxwell had heard about but had never given much thought. Last year however, a group of Arcadia parents nominated Maxwell for the award after CMAS started to grow. After being nominated, Maxwell filled out a questionnaire explaining what CMAS was all about, and he thought it was a good idea to add a link to the CMAS website. “I think the reason that I then made it to the next stage was because of that link, because it did show the kind of uniqueness that I do.” “Uniqueness” is putting it mildly. Maxwell started at Arcadia 16 years ago with band and orchestra, but made early plans for CMAS. “The first nine [years] I sort of built what would become CMAS, and I also ran the band and orchestra,” said Maxwell. He started his first CMAS class as somewhat of an experiment, but eventually dropped band and orchestra all together in order to give his full attention to the thriving program. “It was just a matter of [band and orchestra] got to be too much.” He said he misses teaching those classes; however, the success of CMAS helps him feel OK with his decision. CMAS used to be more of an instructional music class where students started out with the basics on how to play an instrument, but now it engages students on day one, and encourages them to be outgoing with their music. “That is ultimately what we are trying to do…have a fully functional record label and production company,” he said. “Now the idea is, you come in and even from day one, we’re going to start you creating something – even if you’ve never touched an instrument before – you’re going to create something.” Although Maxwell didn’t win the Grammy award, as one of 10 finalists, he is still happy with how the program has progressed and the notoriety it has gained. “The one thing that it’s done more than anything else is it has given proof of concept to what we’re doing with CMAS,” he said. “This has been a major accomplishment as far as I’m concerned.” Maxwell hopes to implement more documentation into the program to show just how much one student can learn with four years in CMAS. “I want to get a lot more into video, and documenting what happens. Right now, we do these shows and they’re amazing...but we don’t do a very good job of documenting, ‘How did you get there?’” What’s in store for next year? “Actually, I’ve already been selected again for next year’s award,” said Maxwell. He recalled one of his favorite memories from this past year that demonstrates the growth from the CMAS program. A CMAS band was performing at an all-school assembly, but they did not have their usual assistance from the Technical Theater program, which meant no light show. “In the middle of their song, with no lighting production of any kind…all of a sudden the bleachers start to clear. [The students] started coming down on to the gym floor and they were dancing around, and it turned into this legitimate concert moment,” Maxwell said. “And here’s the amazing thing, the kids finish the song and everybody on the floor – I’m talking hundreds and hundreds of students – they all just stop, and then they go back and sit in the bleachers…It was a huge sign of respect for these kids that their music could matter that much.” The CMAS program has grown from their basic concerts, or Songwriter Night, to playing at halftime at the home football games, to most recently writing and performing their own musicals in conjunction with Technical Theater. Richard Maxwell may not have won the Grammy award for musical education, but with the way CMAS continues to succeed, he wouldn’t have it any other way. Representatives of the Grammy Foundation honored Richard Maxwell as one of the finalists for the award on Friday, May 15 at the CMAS Songwriter Night in the Arcadia Auditorium. Teacher nominated for Grammy (Top) Richard Maxwell works with a student to learn sound engineering. (Middle and bottom) CMAS students perform.