Kids speak for Butterfield Elementary at MUSD meeting (video)

Almost every month, a school within the Maricopa Unified School District gives the governing board an update on academics, its challenges and its activities. Wednesday, Butterfield Elementary Principal Janel Hildick and her staff had students tell about what they had been up to.

Hildick said Butterfield had its academic focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) courses. The school is refining its grade-level themes and working a variety of approaches into STEAM.

Butterfield’s challenges, she said, come from the level of professional development, slow technology, technology support, large class sizes, having no space for indoor experimenting and research-based curriculum that is not updated.