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- The 2010 Annual Conference
- Featured Speakers
- Conference Abstracts
- Highlights from 2009
- Scholarships
- Registration
The Virginia Educational Facilty Planners invite to the 2010 Annual Conference, to be held February 22-23, 2010 at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, Virginia.
Involving the community in,
"It's about the Students."
In a relatively short period of time the annual VEFP conference has grown from an intimate gathering of a handful of local planners to a regional event that draws attendees from school districts and design firms across the mid-Atlantic. This success can be attributed to the high caliber of presenters and provocateurs who have lent their perspectives to our conversations about planning, design, construction and operation of quality learning environments for children. In 2010 we plan on elevating the conversation even further.
This conference attracts a broad range of professionals dedicated to the design, construction, operation and funding of educational facilities including architects, engineers, builders, directors of facilities, directors of planning, superintendents, school board members and members of the community at large. Each year conference planners attempt to balance forward-thinking ideas and practical applications with an emphasis on tools and technology that will advance the dialogue. Past presenters have included Ian Jukes, Ed Mazria, Susan Rundle, Stephen Kellert, Mark Milliron, and Frank Kelly.
Conference Links
- Register for the conference
- See information about VEFP Conference Sponsorship Levels
- Become a VEFP Conference Sponsor
- Submit an entry for the 2010 Architectural Exhibit
- Download an entry form for the 2010 Architectural Exhibit
- Download submission instructions and design templates for the 2010 Architectural Exhibit
- Submit a Nomination for the 2010 Planner of the Year Award
Conference Schedule
| Monday, February 22nd | |||
8:45
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J. Weekes | ||
| Rosa Parks School: Rebuilding Community | |||
10:30
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T. Le | ||
| Education and the Creative Economy | |||
12:00
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Lunch |
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1:30
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Lois Favre | ||
| Celebrating and Maximizing the Strengths of Learners: One District's Story of How Environment Matters | |||
| 4:30 | Taubman Museum Tour | ||
5:00
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Reception | ||
6:00
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Dinner | ||
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Joyce Epstein
Director, National Network of Partnership Schools | Johns Hopkins University
As Director of the National Network of Partnership Schools and the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, Principal Research Scientist, and Research Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Epstein has conducted research and worked with elementary, middle, and high schools, districts, and state departments of education for many years to help educators build more effective programs of school, family, and community partnerships.
Dr. Epstein has over 100 publications on the organization and effects of school, classroom, family, and peer environments, with many focused on school-family-community connections. In 1996, she established the National Network of Partnership Schools to facilitate the connections of research, policy, and practice for school improvement. Dr. Epstein serves on numerous editorial boards and advisory panels on parent involvement and school reform. She is a recipient of the Academy for Educational Development's 1991 Alvin C. Eurich Education Award and the 1997 Working Mother magazine award for her work on family-school partnerships, and co-winner of the 2005 American Orthopsychiatric Association's Blanche F. Ittleson Award for scholarship and service to strengthen school and family connections.
Dr. Lois Favre
Asst. Superintendent | Lakeland Central School District
Dr. Lois Favre is Assistant Superintendent of the Lakeland Central School District, the largest suburban school district in Westchester County, New York. During her 20+ years as an educator, she has served as both a middle-school special education teacher, as the Director of Pupil Personnel Services, and as Assistant Superintendent for Instruction and Curriculum. She is an expert in inclusion, collaboration, implementation of differentiated instruction, building leadership in administration and on teaching teams. Most recently, she shares this expertise as an international consultant. She is well-published in the field of educational leadership.
Trung Le, AIA
Principal, OWP/P | Cannon Design
Trung Le is a pioneer of OWP/P | Cannon Design’s education practice and has an incessant energy and passion for learning. Le is widely recognized as an advocate for incorporating multiple intelligences and learning styles in the design of education environments. As the lead designer for OWP/P | Cannon Design’s education group, he creates spaces that encourage student inquiry and imagination and offer students a sense of what it means to be a part of a global community.
It is this design philosophy that has yielded awards from the Chicago, Illinois and national chapters of the American Institute of Architects during his 20 years at OWP/P | Cannon Design. Le’s projects have been published in such periodicals as Architectural Record, Contract Design and Edutopia. Le is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences such as BCSE, CEFPI, the AIA National Convention, CAE and A+Den. Le sits on the annual thesis project review panel for schools of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Illinois Institute of Technology. His recent collaboration with Bruce Mau Design resulted in the publication The Third Teacher, a cabinet of wonders on how design can transform teaching and learning.
John M. Weekes, AIA
Founding Principal | Dull Olson Weekes Architects
John Weekes is the founding Principal of Dull Olson Weekes Architects in Portland Oregon. Prior to forming DOWA John was with Skidmore Owings and Merrill. John Studied at the University of Copenhagen and graduated from Washington State University where he received the American Institute of Architects Gold Metal for Educational Excellence.
Projects planned and designed by John have received top honors from the AIA, CEFPI, NSBA and AASA. He was the recipient of the 2009 McConnell Award and chaired the School of One Charrette for New York Public Schools which was named one of the Top Inventions for 2009 by Time Magazine.
His recent presentations include Keynote Speaker for the British Council on Educational Facilities National Summit in London and the State of Montana's Summit on Sustainability. He has been a featured speaker on educational facility issues at the University of Oregon's College of Education and Lewis and Clark College's Graduate School of Education..
In addition to John's planning and Design work he is the 2010 Chairman of the AIA's Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE), an Oregon Business Association Education Committee member and President of the nonprofit Janet Spencer Weekes Foundation for Children and Youth.
Breakout Session Speakers
John J. Angle
John J. Angle is a Project Manager with the W.M. Jordan Company. He received a degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1991, has 21 years of construction experience, and has been with the W.M Jordan Company for 10 years. During the preconstruction process, John establishes the construction schedule, provides expertise about construction means and methods, develops the most efficient work plan for the project, and provides a smooth transition to construction services. He provides a full range of construction management services during the construction phase.
Anthony L. Arnold
Tony Arnold is the Director of Facilities Planning & Construction for Virginia Beach City Public Schools; the third largest school division in the state and 38th largest in the country. He is responsible for managing the School Division’s $600 million six-year Capital Improvement Program.
Mr. Arnold is a product of Virginia Beach Schools and earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from VMI in 1983. He is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth, and has worked for the school division for 23 years, the last fifteen as the Director of Facilities Planning & Construction. He lives in Virginia Beach, is married with four kids, a cat and a dog.
GiGi Badawi
GiGi Badawi is the ELearning Coordinator for Chesapeake Public Schools. In addition to overseeing all video-conferencing and online courses, she is charged with the instructional planning of technology for the division. She has successfully assisted in the planning, implementation and support of new technologies during all phases. Her background as an educator assists in the ability to see the importance of integration not only from a new construction perspective, but to view it from the faculty perspective as the end user. Her goal is to incorporate effective technologies which teachers can easily integrate as part of everyday instruction.
Dr. Michael E. Bishop
Dr. Michael E. Bishop is the principal of Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville, VA, and a graduate of The George Washington University. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Dr. Bishop received a B.S. in Secondary Education from Youngstown State University in 1993 and a Masters in Educational Administration (2006) and a doctorate in Educational Administration and Policy Studies from GWU (2009).
Dr. Bishop was appointed as Principal of Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville, VA in July of 2009. Dr. Bishop is currently completing the requirements for the Certificate in Educational Facility Planning through CEFPI and San Diego State University as part of a scholarship awarded by CEFPI-SE.
Dr. Bishop is married and he and his wife reside in Mechanicsville, VA with their two sons, Nathan (6) and Matthew (3).
Bill Bradley
Bill manages SHW Group’s Charlottesville office dedicated to the pursuit of the Living Building Challenge. He is also a Recognized Educational Facility Planner serving his sixth year on the VEFP board. His unique perspective borrows from his background as both an architect and an educator. Prior to returning to private practice he was an assistant professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia where he taught and conducted research on the relationship between the environment and teaching/learning. Bill is an active member of the AIA's Committee on Architecture for Education and chaired its 2005 national conference. He is a LEED accredited professional. Bill completed his BS in Architecture at Clemson University before finishing an M.Ed and PhD in education at UVA.
Bill lives with his wife and children in Charlottesville, VA where he enjoys racquetball, softball, golf, and coaching youth sports. If he could do anything all day for a day he’d be lead drummer in his son’s mythical Wii Rock Band. Bill currently holds the record for most cookies consumed at a VEFP board meeting
Matt Broxterman
Matt Broxterman earned his electrical engineering degree from VCU before working for firm in NOVA designing large scale access control systems. He has spent the past 5 years working for a system integrator designing and selling security systems for medium to large organizations.
Sharon Stacy Blackwell
Sharon Stacy Blackwell is the Program Manager for GIS and Creative Services for Anderson & Associates, Inc. and has been finding and implementing solutions to technical problems for 15 years. Fascinated by mapping from a young age, she enjoys exploring the intersections between technology, cartography and information. A 1990 graduate of Virginia Tech, Sharon lives and works in the New River Valley and manages the online mapping data for localities in North Carolina and Virginia. In addition to her technical qualifications, she has experience in community development, teaching and training, enabling a unique perspective for helping educational organizations envision, plan and create innovative responses to difficult problems.
Brian Geary
Brian Geary is a Hampton Roads native. He graduated from American University with a B.S. in Business. In 1982, he founded Blueridge General Inc.(BGI). Brian has also served as president of the Norfolk Builders and Contractors Exchange in the past. As president of BGI, Brian has overseen substantial growth and has embraced the green technology wave by having a number of his staff be LEED certified. Since opening, BGI has constructed thirty-two elementary, middle and high schools projects consisting of new construction or additions. They have also significantly renovated nine schools. BGI has generated close to five hundred million dollars of school construction thereby being well versed in school construction and the relationships required for successful outcomes.
G. Randolph Hudson
As an architect and a parent, Mr. Hudson understands the importance of public education. The son of a Professor of Education, he has a lifelong interest in schools. With over 30 years experience in the design of schools ranging from pre-kindergarten through elementary, secondary and higher education projects, he has designed over 70 schools with an aggregate value of over $1.5 billion. He was a team member in the U.S. Department of Defense's most recent Education Facilities Specifications Study for its dependents' schools world-wide. Common to his projects is a consistent approach to creating outstanding schools, incorporating research-based design features to improve learning performance. Mr. Hudson is the Principal architect for Design and Sustainability. Under his leadership, Hayes Large has won numerous design awards from the American Institute of Architects. National and state firsts in green design include the Wrightsville, PA Elementary School, one of the early LEED (Leadership and Energy in Environmental Design) - certified schools in the US; the Loudoun County, VA Monroe Advanced Tech Academy, the US's first LEED Platinum-designed career technology center, the Hayes Large State College, PA office (LEED Silver pending) and a pilot project for the Alexandria City, VA Public Schools. Mr. Hudson has taught at Penn State University Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and is a frequent writer and conference speaker on education and design.
Frank S. Kelly, FAIA
An architect, Frank S. Kelly is a principal and Director of
Planning/Programming for the SHW Group, an architectural, planning and
engineering firm focused on architecture for education. SHW's practice
extends across much of the country with offices in Texas, Michigan and
Virginia.
Mr. Kelly taught design in the School of Architecture at the University
of Tennessee and has worked with design studios at both Texas A&M and
Rice University. With particular interest in the relationship between
instruction and facilities, much of his architectural experience has
focused on the planning, programming and design of K-12 schools. He
frequently lectures at school conferences related to instruction and has
written a number of articles for education journals. He co-authored a
manual on bond planning for the Region IV Educational Service Center
(Houston). Mr. Kelly, Ted McCain and Ian Jukes coauthored Teaching the
Digital Generation: No More Cookie Cutter High Schools for Corwin Press
(2008).
His projects have been recognized by design awards from the
architectural profession and educational organizations. In 1984, he was
elected to the American Institute of Architect's College of Fellows for
his work in design. The Wunsche Academy High School in the Spring ISD
for which he provided planning and programming received TASA/TASB's
Caudill Award and CEFPI's MacConnell Award in 2007.
Janae Nakate
Janae Nakata has been with Chesapeake Public Schools for over 12 years and has been the GIS Administrator since 2004. After learning that she could not earn a living with an American studies degree from Amherst College, she went on to earn a master's degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, GIS was an emerging technology, but Janae decided to concentrate in historic preservation and architectural history.
JD Price
JD is Vice President of OWPR, Inc in Blacksburg, VA. JD is a graduate of the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies with 11 years of k-12 and higher ed. design experience for multiple clients all across Virginia. JD credits his “common sense” approach to design to the fact that OWPR offers all Engineering disciplines in-house. The Engineers in JD’s office often keep the Architects grounded, demanding attention to functional aspects of the design long before the Architects are sometimes ready to consider them. This requires stringent management to obtain that careful balance between function and aesthetic, and translates to a holistic approach to the design of the project. This approach carries into Construction Contract Administration, resulting in a truly collaborative relationship between the Owner, Architect, and Contractor and a building that reflects this joint effort.
Bill Schwegler
Bill is a 1979 graduate for The Ohio State University. After working for two years for an Engineering/Architectural firm in Western New York, he moved to Virginia Beach to practice with Waller,Todd & Sadler Architects in 1981 for which he has been with for the last 28 years. His current position is that of an owner and the Chief Operating Officer within the firm. He has been involved in the majority of the firm's educational facility projects including previous award winning projects such as Oscar Smith High School, Norview High School and Grassfield High School. His latest school design is the proposed LEED Gold Great Neck Middle School, in Virginia Beach, currently under construction. Bill has also been involved with many other building types including municipal and private sector work and specializing in the more technical and program intense Department of Defense projects located across the U.S. and overseas.
Rob Winstead
Rob has dedicated his career to sustainable, high-performance building design. He believes that designers have a professional responsibility to address the global challenges of our time and are uniquely positioned to address major social and environmental issues through design. Rob has experience in a wide variety of project types, but has a particular passion and dedication to learning environments. As a Principal and the Director of Sustainable Design at SHW Group in Charlottesville, Virginia, he is collaborating with others to create healthy, effective and inspiring learning environments that aspire to Living Buildings.
Rosa Parks School: Rebuilding Community
Keynote: John Weekes, AIA, Founding Principal of Dull Olson Weekes Architects, Portland Oregon
Rosa Parks School, recipient of CEFPI's 2009 McConnell Award, was the cornerstone of a community rebuilding effort. A comprehensive planning and design process, involving stakeholders, neighbors and the city, resulted in a mixed use school project focusing on the needs of the neighborhood in which it resides. The first school developed by Portland Public Schools in over 30 years, Rosa Parks has been Certified LEED Gold and has become the template for future school planning projects being considered by the School District.
Celebrating and Maximizing the Strengths of Learners: One District's Story of How Environment Matters
Keynote: Dr. Lois Favre, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Lakeland Center School District, Westchester County, New York
This presentation will highlight the success of the implementation of Learning Styles as a pedagogical concept district wide in the Lakeland Central School District, the largest suburban school district in Westchester County, New York. Participants will understand the Dunn and Dunn learning-style implementation process, how it played out in a large suburban school district, and the results of the undertaking. Highlights will include the process of implementation, the effects of environmental changes on teaching and learning, and the contagious nature of innovation that gets results. Participants will take part in a staff development process, using learning style materials that will lead to the design of a classroom based on a group learning-style profile—in exactly the same way that teachers are trained in the model.
Education and the Creative Economy
Keynote: Trung Le, AIA, Principal and Lead Designer for OWP/P, Cannon Design’s education group
This presentation first will look to current and past prominent educational thinkers and thought leaders to inform emerging teaching and learning trends in the 21st century, connecting research and its significance to the ideas of collaboration, design, and creativity in education. Then our attention will turn to The Third Teacher, a book publication that is designed to be a cabinet of wonders on the subject of the environment’s impact on learning. The final piece of the presentation will focus on four OWP/P case studies: the Cayman Islands secondary campuses, primary and secondary schools for the City of Mumbai, the Chicago Public Schools system, and North Shore Country Day School in Illinois.
Community Engagement: Strengthening School Learning Communities
Keynote: Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., founder and director of the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) and the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, Principal Research Scientist, and Research Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.
Schools have a vested interest in becoming true learning communities. They are now accountable for all students' learning. To learn at high levels, all students need the guidance and support of their teachers, families, and others in the community. Federal legislation, related state and district policies, school goals, family and student expectations, and useful research on partnerships are converging to encourage all schools to establish active and effective learning communities. The schools to be featured here differ from most schools in two important ways. Organizationally, educators, parents, and other partners are working together to systematically strengthen and maintain their family and community involvement programs over time. Interpersonally, these partners recognize that they all have roles to play in helping students succeed in school—and that, together with students, they are the school's learning community.
Breakout Sessions
Classroom Teaching's Impact on Technology
Presenter: Frank S. Kelly
Classroom instruction, particularly for students in grades 6-12, is rooted in late 19th, early 20th century industrial efficiency thinking from folks like Taylor and Wirt. The focus was on the efficient delivery of content to students and was totally teacher centered and it worked for many of the selected enrollment for some years. BUT, today, happily, we have a far more diverse student population with very different expectations and brains (think digital natives) and our high schools fail to serve huge numbers of students. On average, 1/3rd of our high school students do not graduate. The percentage of drops among low income and minority groups in urban schools is often much far higher. Of those that graduate a substantial percentage need remedial studies to succeed in either college or work. Digital technology affords opportunities to change, very significantly, the relationship between teachers, students and time provided the overall school environment, including facilities, changes as well. The presentation will focus on creating school environments in which technology is an essential tool, not an appendage to 19th century instructional methods.
Making GIS Work for You, Not the Other Way Around/ GIS, an excellent, and easy tool for facilities management and planning
Presenters: Janae Najata & Sharon Blackwell
GIS online mapping has the potential to enable complex space planning through an easy to use, data rich, visually compelling interface. The use of GIS presents many benefits over conventional space planning. These benefits will be explored with special interest given to comparing legacy systems, highlighting functional tools and providing real world examples of how GIS can increase input, facilitate decision-making, and enable real-time data use for educational facilities at all levels.
This presentation will have a brief overview of GIS and traditional school uses of GIS. However, the focus of this presentation will be showing some of the more creative functions of GIS, including facilities management, energy conservation, and linking to electronic document management systems.
Lessons Learned from the First Generation of Green Schools
Presenters: G. Randolph Hudson, Mark Krause & David Conrath
Cost and performance data for the first generation of LEED schools is in. As new green schools are designed, what lessons can be learned? Hear insights from green building owners and designers as to what is working, and what isn’t! Participants will learn:
- Common pitfalls – what owners would never do again.
- What we love about our green schools – systems, materials and products that really work.
- Are we really saving energy and utility dollars? – getting the most “bang for your buck.”
- Do students see a difference? – green schools as teaching tools.
The OAN Classroom Competition: Collaborating with Students to Design the Classroom of the Future
Presenters: Robert B. Winstead, Bill Bradley, Kristin Solomon & Jonathan Wehri
The Open Architecture Challenge is an international design competition hosted once every two years on the Open Architecture Network. It reaches beyond the traditional bounds of architecture by challenging architects and designers to partner with the broader public to address architectural inequities affecting the health, prosperity and well-being of under-served communities. The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge was to work with students and educators to design a classroom of the future. SHW Group
teamed with ARUP, Cambridge Strategic Services and the students of Napa New Tech High School to design a learning environment tailored to the needs of 21st Century learners. The result is an affordable, sustainable, modular system based on project-based learning. The space minimizes barriers to learning and is infinitely adaptable to meet the needs of students, educators, and the institution. To facilitate the design process, the team explored a number of ways to engage the students and educators and used
technology to get the most out of a complex team working in 10 different locations and four different time zones. The submission was selected as a semi finalist in the competition and will be part of a global traveling exhibition. The presenters will discuss the context for the competition, the process with the students and educators, the feedback from the students, the tools used to facilitate the process, and the competition submission itself.
A Case Study on Facility Design: The Impact of New High School Facilities in Virginia on Student Achievement and Staff Attitudes and Behaviors
Presenter: Dr. Michael E. Bishop
New school buildings most often contain the most advanced architectural design elements with state-of-the-art technological advancements. The expected costs associated with new construction or renovation projects have increased exponentially; the phenomenon of astronomical cost must be a primary concern for school divisions that are planning future projects when the associated cost of new school facilities is compared to their expected long-term benefits. The presentation addresses impact of the design of new high school facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia on student achievement and student, teacher, and staff attitudes and behaviors.
Electronic Physical Security on the Network
Presenter: Matt Broxterman
What is Electronic Physical Security in schools? This presentation will explore the four main types of Physical Security including access control, surveillance cameras, intrusion detection and mass notification. As new schools are built, renovated and upgraded they typically get the latest and greatest in security technology. The presenter will show how existing schools can benefit through standardization and utilizing the existing network infrastructure. Automation of electronic security systems is also becoming more important with recent budget cuts. Presenter will also explore how many existing systems are underutilized and what school districts can do to get the most out of their existing systems.
Building State of the Art Technology Schools: Lessons Learned from a School Division Perspective
Presenter: GiGi Badawi
The increasing state-of-the-art technology integrated into schools (new and renovated) is causing an increase in the need for effective communication with all parties involved to ensure the smooth transition from construction of the building to its use. The inclusion of IT Departments, Media Services, Communications, school level administration in addition to those involved in facilities planning is vital. After opening new technology schools and renovating existing buildings, we have several lessons learned.
Successful deployment is not only dependent on the strategies implemented during construction, but the strategies/plans used to efficiently train staff on the use of the new technology. Not only is it important to focus on the construction of the building itself, it is also imperative to include the faculty/staff of the new school in the assimilation process. This session will provide you with lessons learned before/during/after
construction, ideas to assist in training the staff on the new technologies and a smooth transition into becoming independent. Learn which best practices to use with vendors, consultants, school planners, administrators and teachers. Share strategies and discuss how to begin the frank conversation with your staff prior to undertaking a new construction project.
Common Sense
Presenters: Bill Schwegler, Steve Smith & Tony Arnold
Today’s drive to show the public that design or construction should be done at the expense of the Architect or Contractor; or the Architect’s design to override the client’s needs and budgets; or the Contractor’s efforts to drive the bottom line at the expense of the project’s quality and overall cost, the statement of today’s relationships and views of Design, Bid, Build work. This presentation intends to look at the “Common Sense” approaches to the Design, Bid , Build construction application through the viewpoints of the Owner, Architect and Contractors perspective of “public responsibility”, “corporate profit to stay in business” and “past and future reputation” that participants of the process look to earn. The presenters will look at the Owner, Architect and Contractor; view their people and products and also where the industry could do better with just more “Common Sense”. In using more “Common Sense” we will focus on several of the following topics as time permits.
The 2009 Conference
Provocateur Frank Kelly shares an idea with his design group at the 2009 conference.
CEO of the American Architectural Foundation, Ron Bogle, set the tone in 2009 by sharing data about what students want in their learning environments.
The board of directors established an agenda that included:
- understanding the role that each of us – regardless of our seat at the table – plays in educating the child;
- understanding ‘the child’ is not a singular being but rather represents a broad spectrum of learning styles, abilities and preferences; and
- understanding how facilities, in general, and each of us, in particular, can better educate the child based on new understandings.
Conference attendees share ideas during a design charette that challenged them to look at typical design issues through new sets of lenses.
We were honored to have Ron Bogle, Susan Rundle, Frank Kelly and Victoria Bergsagel present on these topics. The conference also included a design charrette, a school building exhibit and design competition, and several break-out sessions on topics ranging from learning landscapes and net-zero energy facilities to building information modeling (BIM) and an integrated design process (IDP).
We invite you to review the ‘Schedule at a Glance’ and follow links therein to learn more about the 2009 conference, or download a conference program.
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| The board confers mid-conference. | Attendees at the 2009 conference discuss solutions to various design challenges. |
Ron Bogle
President & CEO, American Architectural FoundationRedesigning Your School: Insights from High School Students Participating in the National Dialogue
In 2007, AAF, in partnership with Target, launched the largest national school design competition open to high school students in the United States. With over 5,000 registrants and nearly 250 final completed entries, the Redesign Your School Contest produced inspired and creative representations of learning spaces for the 21st century. Each student was required to submit a 1000 word essay along with their design concepts. In 2008, AAF returned to those entries in an exhaustive effort to research and identify trends and determine what students seek in the design of the places they learn and play, as well as their vision for how schools should be designed in the future. More. . .Sponsored by SHW Group
Susan Rundle
President, Performance Concepts International
Understanding the Broad Spectrum of Learning Styles, Abilities, and Preferences
At the heart of educational institutions and workplace settings are learning individuals who breathe life into concepts that evolve into promise for the future. When individuals succeed, everyone triumphs. As you reflect on what you learn during this workshop, which is a journey designed to help you understand learning styles through your eyes first, it is hoped that you will perceive the learner-centered classroom through a brand new set of lenses. To achieve this, you will be responding to an adult learning-style survey prior to the workshop. You will then bring with you your personalized results and we will debrief and interactively involve you in the meaning of each style and the implications both in education and workplace settings. More . . .
Lunch Presentation
Frank Kelly
Director of Educational Planning, SHW Group
Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools
For a century, we have believed that the industrial age traditional comprehensive high school could serve all students—that parity/fairness meant giving every student access to comparable instruction, course offerings and facilities. Today’s dreadful graduation rates, particularly in urban districts with diverse enrollments, belie that confidence. The presentation will outline principles for future high schools and explore ten contrasting models that integrate concepts for teaching/learning, technology, time (school day/year), facilities and costs. More . . .
Design Charette Reception Sponsored by Grimm+Parker
Dinner Sponsored by HESS
Scholarships available for the 2010 conference
The Annual VEFP Conference in Roanoke provides valuable information on the design, finance and construction of new and modernized school facilities. VEFP endeavors to offer practical, theoretical, and stimulating information on the whole process of designing and constructing new and modernized schools. School personnel who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about this process are critical to the success of all school construction projects. VEFP wants to offer school personnel a quality knowledge base and to inspire their enthusiasm for the process.
Therefore this year, VEFP is offering at least five (5) $500 scholarships to school division personnel who attend the 2010 VEFP Annual Conference in Roanoke. These scholarships are intended to cover the majority of the cost of conference registration for school division personnel ($230) and two (2) nights lodging at the Hotel Roanoke ($129 a night before taxes). The scholarships will be funded by a portion of all funds generously offered by 2010 Conference sponsors. The VEFP Board of Directors will select scholarship recipients from all areas of the state. Only one scholarship per division will be awarded. Criteria will include
- Certification as a full time school division employee with responsibility in the areas of school design, planning, maintenance, finance, school board member, or school administrator whose school is scheduled in the division’s capital improvement plan to undergo renovation or replacement within the next five years.
- Attendance at all conference presentation events on February 22 and 23
- Completion of a conference evaluation
- Preference will be given to applicants (1) whose school division travel budgets have been eliminated or (2) who have not attended a VEFP conference before or within the last five years.
The scholarship(s) will be awarded by February 8, 2010 and reimbursement will be in the form of a check after the conference upon submittal of documentation of registration, hotel stay, and the completed conference evaluation.
Please fill out an online scholarship application now:
Registration Information
2010 Annual Conference
February 22-23, 2010
The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center
Roanoke, Virginia
Click here to register online or to print a registration form for the 2010 VEFP Annual Conference.
On-line Registration is available through February 14, 2010