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AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS | APRIL 8, 2020
Lisa Miguel
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Cabrillo Canyon Listed for
$595,000
Beautifully remodeled 2,574 sf 4 bedroom 2 bathroom single level home on over a 1/3 acre preserve lot! 2018 roof! 2016 HVAC! Sparkling pebble tec pool with grand rock water feature and built in slide. Kitchen remodeled in 2020 with quartz counter tops, trendy white Shaker cabinets, upgraded Frigidaire Gallery Series stainless steel appliances (with air fry range,) island / breakfast bar, walk - in pantry, and eat - in casual dining nook. Open kitchen - family room floor plan, 2020 interior paint, 2018 exterior paint, new 15x30 porcelain tile flooring and new carpet (carpet only in bedrooms and formal living room.) Master suite is enormous with double sinks, separate shower and Roman tub and large walk-in closet. Master bedroom has a separate single French door exit to the back patio. Both bathrooms remodeled (2020) with quartz vanity tops, upgraded rectangular sinks, brushed nickel faucets, lights and fixtures, dual flush extended length toilets, and tile surrounds in showers / tubs; custom glass door enclosure at the master shower. White Shaker cabinets in both bathrooms. All new lights, fixtures, ceiling fans and hardware throughout.. Five car slab parking in front and extra slab parking behind the double gate on the south side. Double gates on both the south and north sides of home.
Tapestry Canyon
Listed for $2,250,000
Gorgeous 1+ acre property with panoramic mountain views and city lights views! 7,644 sf main house plus a detached guest house and flex room (1940 sf.) Kitchen boasts distressed black finish Alder cabinetry, Cantera stone hood, large island, pantry, Viking double ovens, six gas burner cook top, warming drawer, Thermador refrigerator, two Kitchen Aid dishwashers and a stock pot faucet above cooktop. Open kitchen family room floor plan. All bedrooms are ensuite and have their own patios with mountain views. Negative edge, heated salt water pool. Multiple covered patios. 20’ x 20’ observation deck. Lower level bonus room with grand rock mountain water feature! Bonus room has large wet bar and full - wall pocket doors that open to a large covered patio area. Detached guest house and enormous flex room. Flex room could function as office space, media room, home gym, game room; many options! Five car garage! One garage bay is tandem.. Great for car collectors!
Sun Groves Listed for
$375,000
Gorgeous 2,392 sf 5 bedroom, 3 full bathroom home. Backs to a greenbelt! Open kitchen family room floor plan. Kitchen has a center island, granite counter tops, custom cabinets, and black appliances. Family room has built in media center. Soaring vaulted ceilings! Large master suite has neutral color upgraded carpet, ceiling fan and large picture windows. Master bathroom has double sinks, separate soaking tub and walk in shower, and large walk in closet. The resort like back yard has an extended covered back patio with waterfall feature. Three car garage and RV Gate. Walking distance to Navarrete Elementary.
San Tan Valley Land Listed for
$195,000
Great development opportunity or horse property! 8.35 acre parcel in San Tan Valley. Spectacular panoramic mountain views! No HOA. Property can be split (if desired) into five 1.67 acre parcels. Miles of state trust land all around. Owner is willing to facilitate a minor land division. In the country but has nearby emergency services, hospital, schools, and shopping.
Circle Mountain Land 2 Parcels Listed for
$290,000 each
Two parcels; 4.7 acres each. Residential Acreage abutting Pyramid Peak and state trust land. Elevated property, away from flood zones. Build a grand estate or subdivide a small community! Beautiful Northeastern views of New River Mesa and surrounding mountains. Zoning requires at least 1 acre per home. 15-20 minutes from Anthem and Cave Creek and still only 45 minutes from Sky Harbor 9.4 acres total available (10 acres minus 40 foot road easement along Northern edge)
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my time looking at and snapping photos of the students’ maps, with all of their dreams for the future – prom, graduation parties, award ceremonies were about to evaporate for the 2020 graduating class. In the following days, I posted some Spanish music and grammar videos and phoned my 150 students to let them know I was thinking about them. I didn’t reach everyone, but I promised those I talked to that I would get them through their Spanish classes by the end of the school year. I told everyone I spoke with how much I missed them. By March 30, I, along with most other teachers around the state, set my own emotions aside so I could get to work on something brand new — teaching classes entirely online. Public school educators often talk about using technology in the classroom, but typically that means students using laptops to takes notes and quizzes, using search engines for research and creating slide presentations. Teachers use technology to project videos and slides on the classroom screen. But there has been no need for lectures on web conferencing software because kids normally are still in the classroom. On Monday, when many students returned to class online, that had changed. Jim Archambault, an Advanced Placement physics teacher at Gilbert Highland High School, was online last week with the majority of his students. The previous week, they had answered online surveys about their home technology and it turned out that most kids at the middleclass school had enough equipment to continue their courses online. Archambault said he would conduct videoconferences with students from a spare room in his home after moving a sofa and a foosball table. He is confident that his students can take a home version of AP physics exam that will be given students this year. But he expressed sadness that his students won’t have the full experience of doing physics experiments in class with lab partners the way they normally would. “Online physics will be 50 percent of what they would have had in class,” he said. “You can’t learn physics just by reading about it.” My teaching situation could be described as the mirror-image of Highland
High’s. Many Westwood students are from low-income homes with little in the way of technology. While all have been issued laptops by the school, some lack home internet connections. Many also lack time to attend video conferences during the school day because they are now looking after younger siblings who normally are in preschool or elementary school. So, I have been putting links to grammar and vocabulary lessons into our classroom website and asking students to do small projects as time permits. Spanish One students recently emailed me photos of objects from their homes that they had labeled in Spanish. Spanish Three students emailed me video or audio recordings of themselves talking about their favorite mysteries — from the construction of pyramids in central Mexico to UFOs. The lessons have been a sea change for my students, who are used to being called on in class to talk in front of groups and also writing out notes and classwork on linked paper and keeping it in three-ring binders. As a writer, I believe that the more students write out by hand what they need to know, the better they remember it. I’m fairly certain that every teacher in Arizona right now is coping with similar challenges. So, Westwood principal Christopher Gilmore set up a web conference chat that has pretty much run continuously since Westwood teachers learned they would not be returning to their classrooms this spring. Questions have ranged from how to connect families to food banks to whether its school wanted us to track daily attendance in our virtual classrooms. Little by little our questions have been answered and Gilmore, like many other education leaders around the state, has called for patience and compassion. Right now, relationships matter more than straight A’s and perfect attendance. “I am proud of the heavy lifting, positive attitude, and ‘whatever it takes’ attitude the Westwood staff has had,” he told me in an email. As student assignments have trickled into my email this week, I can say the same about the kids who are enrolled in my classes. I’m proud. I know they also have that “whatever it takes” attitude to come through this.