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Cougars End Football Season On High Note

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The Desert Hills Cougar Football Team ended its 2009 season on a record-breaking note, with a trip to the semifinals against Heritage Academy. The Cougars lost the match, held recently at Phoenix Christian High School, but earned a place as one of the top teams in their division. Head Coach Joe Garcia said the Cougars played “a tremendous game,” and he saluted the effort of the hard-working students.

Desert Hills Teacher Earns National Award

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Kathy Lindstrom, a language arts teacher at Desert Hills High School, has earned a “Teacher of Honor” designation from Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education. Lindstrom joins a small group of remarkable educators recognized with this honor, and is the first teacher to receive the award for 2010.

“It is because of her passion and leadership that Ms. Lindstrom has achieved such success with students in helping them achieve,” says Principal Art Madden. “With her assistance, Desert Hills reached the highest level of state testing achievement.”

Lindstrom is a 21-year veteran teacher, and has worked with a wide variety of students in California and Arizona. In her years at Desert Hills, she has served as English Department Chair, where she has mentored new English teachers, and led the curriculum development of courses, with specific attention to the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) preparation course.

Ms. Lindstrom’s work in the English department has helped boost student test scores by 40 percent. Additionally, she played an integral role in assisting DHHS meet full national accreditation with AdvancED.

She has been a member of the Arizona Department of Education’s (ADE) AIMS committees since 2005, and has assisted the state in developing both the AIMS reading tests and the scoring for the AIMS writing exam.

ADE Deputy Associate Superintendent Robert Alley called Lindstrom “a valuable contributor to creating and maintaining the integrity of the AIMS exam.” Alley also says that “it is only with dedicated educators such as Ms. Lindstrom that ADE can keep the AIMS a reliable and valid measure of the academic standards.”

Lindstrom has been an active volunteer at Phoenix Rescue Mission, a nonprofit organization that cares for the poor and needy through homeless emergency services, addiction recovery, and family and community outreach. Additionally, she is vice president of the Arizona Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, through which she manages, recruits, and maintains the membership of the organization.

She is earning her Doctor of Education at Northcentral University, and holds her MA in Curriculum and Instruction and a BA in English.

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Cougar Poetry

Penn Station

In 1975, they realized that the stone
edifice had drooped in the sun
and the weather which blew clouds
whistling around the warm old
marble and winding staircases
had disappeared. And Dodgers
Stadium had been built brick
by brick and cold flat plastic
over the graves of ancient
communities, flying in the
faces of angry neighborhood
owners. The kind who would
hold a grudge for the
next fifty years, until they
eventually slumped from
sheer inflexibility. These
Atlantean monuments rose
slowly through gang infested
park landscapes, presenting a
pointillist feud that involved
everyone searching into that
reflection of the past, its
landmark a slide which chips
away at little pieces of nostalgia,
the memory of an old wound.
The years, ultimately, don’t mean
much to these great buildings,
their staircases clipping with sound,
from babies in carriages clopping
down steps to the neat frame
of expensive shoes forged from
animal skins. A million
different images from as many
mornings. All moving to make
way for what we imagine
might come next. Later, still.