The Vision & Planning Committee has started researching long term facility options. Our current lease expires June 30th, 2013.

Next meeting will be early August. Please check back later for details.

May 24th, 2010 Minutes

Ed-Tech Plan and iSchool Resources:

• CumberlandAcademy.com - the 1st iSchool in the State of Texas
• iSchool Campus - (“What is an iSchool?”) is a non-profit founded to promote innovation in America’s schools through a unique approach combining technology driven, differentiated instruction with the performing arts in a fully equipped, state-of-the-art charter school facility.
• National Ed Tech Plan Advocates Radical Reforms in Schools - The plan, titled "Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology," sets forth, in part, a manifesto for change, questioning many of the basic structures of American education, enumerating the principles of change that are the foundation for the plan, and setting goals and recommendations for achieving this change.
• Education Week – March 10, 2010 – U.S. Ed-Tech Plan Urges Rethinking In K-12 Schools
• Education Week – March 10, 2010 – Going from Stem to Steam
  
• Education Week - E-Learning 2010 - A special report from the technology team at Education Week Digital Directions  aims to highlight the progress made in the e-learning arena, as well as the administrative, funding, and policy barriers that some experts say are slowing the growth of this form of education.

April 26th, 2010 Minutes

March 22nd, 2010 Minutes
     March 22nd Resource: HighMarkSchools.com

February 22nd, 2010 Minutes
     February 22nd Resources:

• Affiliated Building Companies - Minnesota's New Charter School Law
• Proposal in Minnesota Legislature: let charter schools own sites

January 25th, 2010 Minutes
December 7th, 2009 Minutes
November 23rd, 2009 Minutes

V & P Notes  11/09/09

• Feasibility study – any buildings available to retrofit?
• Check into school-trust land – meeting with Ken Anderson (planning and zoning)
• Steve Roe – city council, Lions member – meeting with him
• Green school conference – 2010 conference – first in the nation and will be held in MN – ask board for approval.  If we register by Nov. 30, 2009, we get a significant price reduction.
• Video of day-in-the-life to show the crowded congestion, etc. to show the city or whoever needs to be convinced of the space we need.
• Tami has some contact information about schools with shared facilities.
  
  

Resources

• http://www.edfacilities.org/pubs/pubs_html.cfm?abstract=centers_of_community
• http://www.academyconsultants.net/
• Affiliated Building Companies - Minnesota’s New Charter School Law
  

 

 

 

 

 

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