Be a Champion
to Children

Volunteer, network, and join community projects at your local school.

 Why join our village?

Not every child has a champion. Help us connect a network of community leaders to every local school, so that every child has support to reach their potential!

What is School Connect?

Connecting Schools to Community…because it takes a village to help every child reach their potential!

The Sunnyslope Story

Sunnyslope leaders come together to build their community and support Mountain View Elementary School!

2021 Hope Builders Award

Scottsdale Bible Church joined forces with School Connect and the City of Phoenix to tackle the digital divide. Together we provided 7,960 computers to Arizona school children!

2021 School Connect Awards

Join School Connect as we honor champions of education who have built trust, modeled resilience, and cultivated leadership in their schools and communities.

School Connect Summit 2019

Watch School Connect and cross-sector leaders from all over Arizona as we share our vision for the future. Together we can build the world our children deserve.

your
impact

$1.3 million dollars of volunteer service to school communities

12,484 computers donated

“You can be 5 and change the world, you can be 16 and change the world, 20 – any age you can change the world.”

4th Grade Student
Mountain View School

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Teacher retention in one K-8 school increased from 35% to 93%

Increased kindergarten reading scores 39% in K-8 AZ school

10,000 teacher care packages donated in 2020

Increased scores in math for students in one AZ elementary school: 20% of 4th graders, 19% of 5th graders, and 47% of 6th graders

Join Our Village

Doing this alone is impossible; it takes all of us working together to make a difference.

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The Future Is Bright

We asked these kids about their hopes and dreams. Their vibrant answers remind us that the future is in good hands when we empower children to become the leaders they were born to be. Help us build a village of support around every school so that EVERY CHILD is connected to their full potential!

"Whether we are working with Tracey and her team to overcome the digital divide in the community, handing out laptops, textbooks, digital hot spots, school supplies, or simply giving a hot cup of coffee to a teacher on a Monday morning to make their week a little bit easier, we feel truly blessed to be able to help."

Bryan Kuster

"When you engage with School Connect, you engage with an entire community. It’s business partnerships, it’s families, it’s schools - it’s everybody coming together to make life better for our students."

Nedda Shafir

"To see their faces when we showed up to help distribute lunches and different things, is priceless! Find it in your heart – I know it’s already there. Let’s go and serve those schools, let’s go and partner, let’s go and make sure our kids are taken care of."

Jerome Parker

"I think there are a lot of people who want to help out in public schools, they just simply don’t know how. And so, School Connect has the framework and the model to be able to do that and bring people together."

Dr. Cort Monroe

"It’s a tremendous asset to Arizona and to Arizona school districts, and it’s a service that has been needed for a very long time…because all of these groups are working toward the same goals but working parallel instead of in collaboration. So, it’s a tremendous organization that is bringing us all together and accomplishing great things."

Natalie Orne

Our mission is possible because of our amazing sponsors!

Check out some of our favorite highlights from the 2025 Champions of Education Awards!

What a joy to celebrate the champions who are making our communities a better place - a place where every student can reach their full potential!

Special shoutout to our sponsors, @gentechsupport, Kairos Health, @core1937, @chasse.us, 1GPA, VSMG, and @copperpointinsurancecompany. Thank you!

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We're still reflecting on all the great stories we heard at the 2025 Champions of Education Awards breakfast earlier this month!

One of them was from Principal Reginna Lewis, representing Ira A. Murphy Elementary School in the Peoria Unified School District - this year's winner of the Because It Takes a Village Award.

Thank you for being an exemplary model of what it means to bring people together and serve as a village for our students! 💛 

Over the next few days, we'll share more of these feature videos from our event with you here. (You can also see them all on our website or YouTube page!)

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We heard so many great stories as we celebrated the 2025 Champions of Education Awards last week!

One of them was from Martín Quezada, governing board member in the @pesd92 and this year's winner of the Collaborative Leadership Award.

Thank you, Martín, for your life of service. Leaders like you make the world a better place! 💛 

Over the next few days, we'll share more of these feature videos from our event with you here. (You can also see them all on our website or YouTube page!)

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We heard so many great stories as we celebrated the 2025 Champions of Education Awards last week!

One of them was from Dr. Robert Pappalardo, Superintendent at @ajusd43, the winner of our Changemaker Award.

Thank you, Robert, for bringing forward-thinking solutions to your district and creating environments where students and educators can succeed! 💛 

Over the next few days, we'll share more of these feature videos from our event with you here. (You can also see them all on our website or YouTube page!)

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It was such an honor to celebrate our 2025 Champions of Education Award winners and hear more of their stories last week! 

One of those winners is Melissa France, an incredible teacher from Fowler Elementary School District. It was a joy to award her with this year's Hero Maker Award! 

Thank you for inspiring, mentoring, and building partners to help your students thrive!

Over the next few days, we'll be sharing these feature videos from our event with you here! You can also view them all on our website at: https://schoolconnectaz.org/school-connect-awards/winners/

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