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ARIZONA CONFERENCE PRESENTERS LIST (in order of appearance)
Derek Peterson, Helping Kids Succeed
The Student Support Card™ – A Full Spectrum Approach to Student Success.
In order for every student to achieve established academic standards, we know that all of us must work together. Schools are being evaluated and being given reports card of their own. And, the community thinks that our grades could be/should be much higher! We are going to show you how Arizona is using the common-sense method of measuring and reporting the degree to which all sectors of the community support student achievement. The Support Card will essentially guarantee that your child/teen will be successful.
Martin Jones, Gust Rosenfeld Attorneys and Ryan Hurley, Rose Law Group
Financing Sustainability – Making Sensible Choices.
Martin Jones will present on the benefits and issues associated with power purchase agreements for schools. Thereafter, Martin and Ryan will discuss their experiences in supporting school districts in bringing alternative energy to school campuses and field questions.
Susan Carlson, Executive Director, Arizona Business and Education Coalition
The State of Education in Arizona.
Margaret Wheatley, social anthropologist, expert in
organizational management and author, writes in her book Leadership and the New Science,
"we live in a time of chaos, as rich in the potential for disaster as for new possibilities. What's
ironic is that I now look back to 1990 as the good old days, when we had time and space to
reflect on ideas, when we had the luxury to think about a new worldview and consider whether
we believed it or not." Arizona and its educational system are in such a time chaos – a time of
transition. "The world has changed, " claims Wheatley. "No matter what we do, stability and
lasting solutions elude us." Arizona is faced with dramatic cuts in funding – but greater and
greater expectations for performance on the horizon. Hear one organization's view about the
state of education today – and the choices to be made that could enable us to respond wisely.
William R. "Bill" Orr, Executive Director, Collaborative for High Performance Schools
National Voice, Local Choice: High Performance Schools for the Rest of Us
This may be the worst time for our schools since many of them were built. Budgets are being axed. Teachers laid off. Facility staffs all but eliminated. Demands on our facilities are escalating. School libraries and even entire schools are being considered for closure. New school construction has all but stopped in most areas of the country.
Even with all of these challenges, there are many opportunities to improve the condition of our existing schools. Hear about how the CHPS Operations Report Card can help schools benchmark their current performance and identify opportunities to save money and improve the learning environment. See how investing in integrated design and high performance building systems through the capital budget can save the general fund now and for the life of the school. Discover how the CHPS Core Criteria may be a regional solution for schools in the Southwest to achieve the best high performance learning environments possible and how you can get involved.
Sue Pierce, Principal, Pierce Energy Planning
As a school official, you probably know that the annual energy bill to run America's primary and secondary schools is a staggering $6 billion – more than is spent on textbooks and computers combined. What you may not know is that the least efficient schools use three times more energy than the best energy performers and that the top energy performing schools cost $.40 per square foot less to operate than the average performers. These statistics are from Energy Star, a program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Schools can play a valuable role in teaching students about becoming energy efficient and in leading their communities to become more efficient, too. In the process, you positively impact the environment, teach social responsibility and help the school district save money on energy
bills. In this presentation, you will learn the key elements of an energy strategy; discuss critical issues impacting an energy behavior program in your school; and lay the ground work for creating energy teams and plans for your school district.
Dr. David Peterson, Assistant Superintendent, Scottsdale Unified School District
Conspicuously missing from the debate of educational success is a concern for the physical infrastructure of the school that directly supports learning in the classroom. In order for educational leaders to support reform on a level that will boost student performance, they need to better understand the relationship between the quality of school facilities and learning. This session will focus on recent research regarding the investigation of the relationship between the physical condition of school buildings and student performance with respect to high school teachers' perspectives of students' attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs regarding the physical environment(s) in which they have been educated.
Improving educational performance is high on the list of national, state, and local policy agendas. The condition of public school buildings reflects the importance placed on education in this country. Even the earliest educational reformers understood that educational facilities impacted the learning environment. They realized that an adequate, high-quality, physical learning environment must have suitably designed school spaces. Across the nation, deteriorating public school buildings are a major obstacle to achieving academic success and neighborhood vitality.
Stephen Hulsey, Corgan Architects and Don Penn, Professional Engineer and Principal, EIG Company
Lady Bird Johnson Middle School and Green Building Design
Imagine a building that consumes only the energy it produces. Corgan is a leader in green building design and is currently designing the first Net Zero school in Texas. A facility that incorporates energy reducing systems with goals to reduce energy consumption over 50% from the traditional school model through the use of geothermal HVAC, passive solar interior daylighting, efficient building envelope, energy star rated kitchen, and advanced controls systems monitoring. The school will utilize wireless laptop technologies for all computer needs to further reduce the electrical and HVAC loads in the building.
The energy reductions within the facility will be offset by the energy produced through solar and wind energies provided on the site and building roof. Solar panels will provide the majority of the energy needs for the building and are designed so that over the course of a year the energy produced will equal the energy consumed, Net Zero.
The building is also designed to include the green building technologies into the educational environment. A monitor display will be located in the main corridor at the entry to the building that will show all the data being produced through the system, showing both energy being used and energy being produced at any given time. A geothermal corridor will expose the system and components and laptop charging stations will be provided that will be charged by solar energy and strategically located in a "solar corridor" incorporating the power requirements with educational needs.
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