Just got this in from Rebecca Borden (rebeccab@ccsso.org) at the Arts Education Partnership which focuses on documenting the impact of arts on learning, showing why and how arts matter in the lives of students, teachers and communities. They work at a national level to identify and share successful strategies for ensuring the arts are taught, and taught well, in our public schools. Note: she wrote a great article a ways back for the NCEF on how to involve kids in the school design process — well worth the read!

Reminder: High Performance Schools Symposium at the COG in DC on April 24th.

To register: Please E-mail your registration to Pam Vosburgh at VSBN pam@vsbn.org

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We will have speakers from school districts throughout the region present their work, and case studies on high performance new school design, renovations and O&M.

MCPS will present the winners of our Portable Classroom Design Challenge as part of School Building Week, and later the MCPS Green Building Program in one of the breakout sessions in the afternoon.

For the special occasion we invited Stefan Behnisch, the German architect who designed the LEED Platinum Genzyme building in Boston, to give the evening lecture. He will present his firms extensive portfolio on schools and educational facilities - a premiere in the US!

The firm’s school designs illustrate the difference between “facilities that hold our kids during the day” and a school building as a cultural and community symbol- and the cool place to be for the kids.

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Register now!!! Space is very limited (we mean it), so please register right away to reserve your spot!

If you are in the school building and operations business and/or high performance design, you do not want to miss this event.

Please E-mail your registration to Pam Vosburgh at VSBN pam@vsbn.org

See you there!

Anja S. Caldwell, LEED™
Green Building Program Manager

Montgomery County Public Schools
301 . 279 . 3475