MAY

• Education Innovation Summit
• Governor has signed into law SB1255
• 2012 Gabe Zimmerman Public Service Awards nominations are now being accepted
• Beat the Odds Success Story: Pima Elementary School

April

• Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Gabe Zimmerman Public Service Awards
• Move On When Ready featured at the NCEE Board of Trustees meeting
• Insights about Move On When Ready appeared on Arizona Horizon
• The Arizona We Want Institute has been selected to participate in the Starbucks Community Card: Vote. Give. Grow. program
• Participants in the Beat the Odds program's professional development training were introduced to a highly effective data-analysis tool called the Pareto chart.

March

• Innovative Education – How Leaders in Digital Learning are Changing
  the Learning, Discovery and Knowledge Creation Process in K-12
• Four West Valley school districts are slated to be among the first in Arizona
  to adopt FlexBooks
• Discussions are underway with several Arizona and national organizations to develop a series of case studies on Five Communities Project winners
• The Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation has granted $20,000 to Beat the Odds for school year 2012-2013

January/February

• Beat the Odds Gold Awards
• The Center for the Future of Arizona receives investment of $325,000 from Arizona Board of Regents
• University of Phoenix has granted $100,000 to Beat the Odds
• The Center for the Future of Arizona and Morrison Institute for Public Policy have released Digital Learning: How to Enhance the Learning of Any Child, at Any Time, and in Any Place