Education

The Arizona School Administrators, a nonprofit of the 1,400-plus state officials, have named Quincy Natay, superintendent of the Chinle Unified School District, as Arizona Superintendent of the Year.

San Juan College student Cassie Frank, Diné/Navajo, was recently crowned Ms. Indigenous San Juan College 2021-22.

Matthew Cornelius Jr., from Zuni, a Pima Community College student in Tucson, donated the $1,000 prize for being named New Mexico’s 2021 Gatorade baseball player of the year to the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project.

With shovels dug into the backyard of the Na’Neelzhiin Ji’ Olta School, students, teachers, Family and Child Education staff, supporters and workers celebrated a groundbreaking Monday for the school’s first garden hoop house.