001okay can you hear me okay just talking regularly okay so one request we are online so if we can just be in the proximity of this location that's remote that's cool cool I'm just going to start by saying hello good evening my name is Donald Lewis I'm the superintendent for Creighton School District eighth year and my final um I have uh 24 more school days that it's breaking my heart mostly because this is coming and it's been in my heart and head for 20 years when I was a second grade teacher I took 67 students up to patient to Kohl's Ranch and we dug through fossils and my seven-year-olds who stayed there for three nights some of whom were still bed wetters which I didn't get when I was in my 20s I was like
002what what do you mean and we did all sorts of things with Apostles and they learned and painted that Arizona was once in the ocean because the fossils were living examples of recipel every single one because they were true paleontologists and they understood life cycles of streams and we talked about ecosystems of outdoors and so by getting excited about that kind of learning and knowing the kids need to be outside when we live in a cement center-based hot City the fact that we can dream of a place where kids can simulate and mimic and become paleontologists or experts in ecology or gardeners or people who understand biology I the the ideas of the curriculum are so vast and of course we can plug the standards into it of course we can plug the high level
003community but the the relevance is so high and so I may apply to be the Principal I love the schools careful I'm not sure everybody would approve but but uh honestly I have people are saying what are you gonna do when you're retired I'm like well I might be a ranger you know I'm really so passionate about outdoors and a kid that the higher they get from the nature and Outdoors does that means thank you when they're outside when you ask kids what's your favorite school what do they say energy and so when we think about teaching ecosystems and interdependence of life cycles um I I just know we're going to build this amazing space and I think it's going to be a huge attraction for Phoenician kids who are in so many ways trapped
004by concrete that uh I wish my kids weren't 30 or I'd send them here but then I got told we'll have them teach like that might work so I um I hope to come back and just be in the audience and being with pride whenever the ribbon cutting ceremony is because I'm so in love with this is our new incoming superintendent fees with um Eric and the team on this development a lot of you are here in the world again thank you very much let's step over here because I think we're trying to capture some of this so I'll Stand closer to the mics and some so soft-spoken but um so I will talk louder see I told you I was soft-spoken um so you know I I made a statement a couple of weeks
005ago and in talking with teachers over the last couple of weeks I've heard reinforcement for the statement and that statement was we always talk about engagement in the classroom and I really don't think we have an engagement problem I think kids are 100 engaged all the time that engagement just might not be with the lesson or might not be with what's being learned in class because trust me if they're not focused on what's happening in class they will find something else to be engaged in and that's going to create some problems so one of the things that we're really excited about in relation to this campus is the concept of having a design that helps kids not only be engaged with some different aspects of learning that aren't always available to them but that also
006gets them grounded and centered from having this ability to get outside and get into the outdoors as part of their educational experience there's a bunch of research that says and this is going to sound really bizarre but if you look at a tree it lowers your heart rate almost your circadian rhythms and it actually just puts you into a better physical state of being which affects your emotional well-being and all of that so that is a lot of the the drive behind wanting to create an environment that helps students in that way but also in trying to build an instructional model that not only leverages the campus and the features of the campus but also helps kids be scientists and get exposure to project-based learning science scientific opportunities to be able to enhance their understanding
007of the world but also to be able to grow their skills and abilities so with that I just want to share a little bit about what's going to happen this evening so we have Phil Weddle from Wilmore and architects who have been doing the design on the campus um Phil is going to share some of the design components of the site and showcase the things that have been already integrated into the design and possibly even some of the challenges that we're still overcoming and then we have Martha Hernandez with us I think and she just told me too she has been our Muse of instructional elements for the campus and she's going to share some of the concepts behind that and that and trying to accomplish by building a school that's different that's out there
008and we also have with us this evening folks from Facilities Management Tammy Caraway is here with us they are the project managers that are helping us with the site design and we also have and also to thank for supporting us with Refreshments this evening and also in the reconstruction site and depending on what happens with GMP on Google what's the actual construction of the site we have folks from Chase Building team and we have Barry Chase himself has turned out this evening to be here as well thank you so in addition to that effort among you um are some of the folks who have been kind enough to served on our combination design Vision team and the reason we combine vision and design was when we built our last school this amazing school and then
009said yeah and then so we had sort of carton horse thing where we figured out the vision for the school after the facility had already been in the process of being built and this time we've been trying to interleave those things and leave them together so that way it performs a hole that's greater than the solar so with that I am going to turn it over to Mr I don't know um thanks for being here tonight just wanted to give you a brief overview of the uh design where we're at and give you a little bit of taste for what's coming uh next to the project um first just in terms of uh some of the stakeholder engagement process and I recognize many of you that have been involved in this process over the past
010year but we've had a lot of great feedback and input from a diverse group of stakeholders on this project um and have received a lot of comments and directions for thoughts about things that we should be considering out of all that process we've really tried to distill it down five what we call our five design aspirations these are the five two metrics of things that we're trying to accomplish this project to achieve the vision and they really center around the idea of adventurous learning and how we can develop a design concept to support the idea of health and wellness and developing designs and Landscapes this is working Wellness indoor outdoor connectivity which is really key to some of this Outdoor Learning opportunities that we've been talking about Community impact we think it's incredibly important for
011these neighborhood schools of community impact and support all right lastly the condition of stewardship and sustainability how can the school become a role model for sustainability our kids are learning in the education so this is behind we've been working on it 7th Street mine and then the new Soul here the intent is to develop a parent drop-off for parking along Osborne creating points on the corners for neighborhood entry into the site Focus is probably going to have to unfold in phases the initial really focused on what we call Zone a that's the area of Osborne up to about the mid sites includes and really critical site improvements that are connected to people and as grants and other funds I'm available called The Outdoor Learning lab and that's really the school preschool is designed around this
012Outdoor Learning lab and that includes a series of classroom lab spaces Gathering spaces different scales that really allow classrooms to be in or outdoor and to have students we all adjacent to the media East ER we're developing a what we call the wetlands Garden rainwater harvesting and other strategies to bring water in and creating a small island repairing area but again creates a small Wetland opportunity there that's really kind of a Gateway in the community there you know like comparison do we want but create a wedding so there's a very and we've done a number of wetlands and other facilities around the region we've done we designed the real Audubon Center and Liberty Wildlife Center called half Wetlands on that so there's a process you utilize for moving the water and recirculating and filtering it
013so it's an it's a natural process but it's also a process of keeping the water moving which allows you to kind of keep the kind of bacteria growth and other uh things out of the water so they're in the process and that's all um also adjacent uh to the new school we're developing an area that's uh that's all garden and Outdoor Company area immediately adjacent indoor diamonds uh so we have raised garden heads that be used by the kids um we have a rain water system that's capturing rain water off the roof that competed your vegetable garden and then covered outdoor dining that is just east of that mosquitoes are all kept down by the water movement that's part of the process of moving the water in the filtration process so that is a part
014of the health of the Wetland itself is the ability to do that there's also native uh aquatic species you can introduce the insects down uh um so you will have you will have some sort of makeup water that's interconnected into it um and that throughout the course of the year you have to have some sort of makeup water or you will not make it through the season particularly the season that we're in now where you can go for three months without rainfall the balance of the Year whenever you're getting more rainfall um and you're able to kind of deal with some rain water Harvest and it starts to balance some of that at in terms of the size of the Wetland this is actually pretty modest size uh fortified which which is relatively small compared
015to other weapons for example that we were talking about at the Audubon Center or Liberty Wildlife those were up to about 20 000 square feet this is about a quarter of that size it ranges in depth along the edges I mean it's uh a foot deep down to probably about 14 feet deep at the deepest foreign standpoint maybe if we go through the entire presentation and then we have a q a discussion at the end if that's okay because there's quite a bit of material to go through um so some of the other areas the landscape areas we're developing uh is a pollinator Garden that is located adjacent uh to the outdoor dining area as well uh that'll have a tractor plants that will attract butterflies and hummingbirds and other types of Wildlife species and
016then we're developing along the uh experience side area it's called a good nature Play Zone and that'll have a more native Spirit landscape Zone uh interpolated experiences and the types of the ability to integrate play equipment and natural play elements in other than being it's reference imagery showed some of those kinds of natural play areas we're also utilizing there are some very nice mature existing trees on the campus which we're protecting its place uh reducing one of the largest of those trees uh designing a treehouse structure that would work around them examples of types of tree houses that you can build platforms you can build around existing trees and then we do have a multi-use field Court field it would be sized to be able to accommodate soccer and softball and then to the far
017north part of the site working as developing a Community Gardens and Orchard area and then in terms of water harvesting strategies we've been looking at trying to look at this site full list and how we can reduce the overall water consumption on the site from an irrigation and Landscape so this diagram shows some of the strategies we're utilizing for rainwater harvesting the bio swells and Rain Gardens that feed into different landscape zones as well as the Wetland um and then reduces the amount of area where we're utilized flood irrigation is really being limited just to the multi-use sport field at this point and based on our calculations it's about 58 reduction in our annual water consumption landscape on the site okay eyeballs and then we're also looking at renewable energy and bringing that into the
018design we're actually shading outboard multi-sport Court they uh TV array shading that tone and producing renewable energy from school and then some of the floor plans for the new school ground level plan uh where we have the main entry this is facing towards Osborne the leadership area with the media center the Wetland garden and then we have Internet lab classrooms Courtyard and then on the north we have the indoor dining outdoor dining Sport Court um the pollinator Garden and on the second level we have additional learning Labs on three sides that open up to a view down into the uh outdoor party and sustainability and with that I'd like to take you on a quick slide through tour of the proposed design and this tour takes about seven to eight minutes Supply get a better
019sense of the project with this hopefully so that starting on the corner of 28th and Osborne is swinging around 27th and Osborne and then we'll come down to one of those neighborhood entry points uh and train it into the site so this is the corner North at east corner of Oxford and 27th uh trying to create a neighborhood entry into the school some of the BIOS Trails on sides of course it creates against the file spells and rainwater harvesting that we're using here then approaching the main entry into the school I'll swing around in the front doors reception area with the view out into the learning Courtyard to the north and then as we moved into some of the learning lab classroom areas we have a Zone here that's a collaboration Zone with a learning
020scare that connects between the different levels a small courtyard here on south side and then a the learning scare with the courtyard on the side that's the main learning Courtyard this learning scare can be used as an Amphitheater and we'll have video wall on the on the move up the stairs views out there with actually collaboration area along that with us there on the south actual daylighting coming in from the north so we can utilize as much natural daylight is possible in the space to really try and lighten that up that's correct yeah and they have both yes they do and then this is going to uh an outdoor covered area that's looking the learning Courtyard we do have an outdoor Courtyard that has used to the north so this is the roof Courtyard area
021immediately adjacent to the art lab reviews to classical Peak to the north we'll move down the stairs apologize it's a little dark with all these lights on in here this would be better if we turned off all the lights um and then moving down to the uh Courtyard level s of outdoor Gathering spaces within the courtyard to give you different different zones for students to be able to uh work there is multi-use sport court and that's immediately introducing to the indoor dining area and to the left we have the dining area as a canopy over it and the multi-use sport fields to the right and then these are the raised garden beds uh here in front with a rainwater systems and out onto the multi-use sports field view back the southeast TV array canopies were
022killed I'll swing around pollinator Garden has a pathway that goes through that as well as some different Gathering areas and then we come in one last time through the courtyard sport court and that's the indoor dining there uh straight across and it has a little updoors open up thanks for coming through here the learning Courtyard class for both levels and we have one last loop back out around the uh the entrance into the band room there sure in his head and this is the area between the new school and little big mines the media center that's directly in front of us and then the Wetland Courtyard to the uh east of that the Wetland Courtyard um it goes back up you know so that's kind of an overview of the design in terms of what
023to expect in terms of next steps um we have um as Jay was mentioning at the beginning coming up we're working with the Chase building team currently on Final pricing to present uh pricing for a guaranteed maximum price uh the governing board for review and approvals if that is approved and construction would begin this summer of 2023 and then over the coming year we'd be providing Community updates as well as updates to the governing board with the attempted school would be complete uh in summer of 24 ready for school to open in August of 2024. turn it over to Martha and we can come back to any questions that you all have extra portion louder um but it's amazing what um all the ideas and all the work that have come and that we go
024back to like two three years ago where the community um we brought the community in and we got ideas and um we surveyed our family because the parents were like we want our kids out outside back to project Baseline philosophically and I know this information are crucial Learners Visual and fictionalists most of our students working again hi the more that I work one of the things that we've discovered is not discovered but with time to get centered on our website inform our teachers that are parents one of the things that I've learned is when they are invested in equivalented when they are investigating especially observations so as we go through this um I wanted to give you a little bit of research when we did all these measures in the business one of the things
025we wanted to do and we planned was to take our leaders so they can have first hand experience of what an investment is right of how you're going to expand your curiosity about why did the leads look somebody does what is the pattern to tell you a belief why is the first hand um doing an investigation and working with our colleagues as we gave them questions and and and they sparkly authorized they had the opportunity to wonder and ask questions about nature and connect Back To Nature and so with that we brought it back and as the committee came back together and we brought back the research the experiences you know we were like what you know it's so important one of the things we learned you know about a design and one of the
026things that I'm really really I want to say proud of the committee is that we have been planning the design and the instructional program apparently right together because yes you can have this beautiful class but then the destruction is such an important aspect to what so as we haven't done this plan and this is I can't wait for this Vision my my son and my husband and we live in the community too so we need to go back one more so one of the things that we just got are the five days yeah one of the things that as we were thinking inquiry was was was the theme of all this investigation of all this research and under inquiry so think about inquiry as being your umbrella right and under your umbrella you'll have your
027different raindrops there are methods and so one of the methods very popular right now so we especially some people met right but something that our teachers so um it is and when we think about the five is this method was discovered by the scientific um curriculum of study of the study of science so it's not new but it takes the kids through faces and they're not linear they're not necessarily have to be linear but when we think about the fighting then the first e is they're engaging so if you're sparking the Curiosity of a wetland s um no no no I'm not and I'm not I'm talking in general like a lot of our teachers because it is an instructional shift when I was introduced I was like oh I don't know that is hard
028that's hard to plan you know and you're right there's there needs to be more tools and more resources um and then we get to the evaluation so as you think about the 5vs what it looks like when you're outdoor and not only outdoor or bringing them back to indoor right so we can use the space as our third teacher which is a really important part of it um yeah I think about what was our next I talked about that the field trip and so when we think about Outdoor Learning stuff is you know how can and and through our design it was very obvious that some of our not obvious but it was saving of our goals of sustainability the the ecosystem how can we have our kids connect to the Natural light how can
029they um learn that it doesn't take only one person to sustain the excitement it has to go from the admin each other to the community just really learn how to collaborate so they have sustainability into English um we'll talk about the third the third the the same in the certain future um here you know worship is a big goal that as we were planning the design and planning the instructional program of them really empowering their students to be advocates for their environment so as the committee got throughout the years we've been collecting all this information would be collecting the input of the community the input of the teacher's input of Advent you know together we created this vision and what is this Mission going to look like so today we are very grateful that you
030guys are here um we really we didn't visit Awakening seat this is the school that is very limited of resources but the learning.com through we have their own garden they um they have an environment where the teacher lets the students really learn um with just very limited materials because it's it's a private school um and they have very limited resources the teacher but for me it's a big I've been to a teacher for twice and when I went to private schools that have projects in the vision and the way they use their indoor and then doors but it was like wow my vision in my head hurt if you imagine school but like we need x y and D we need we need all the different things to make this happen when we really don't
031it's the imagination what do you have at home that you can bring in to make this project the community so I we wanted to share that and we took a lot of pictures about a lot of ideas of like Hey we're gonna need some cabinets to really put our gardening stuff so it's accessible for kids and our kids don't have bringing all their way so we're still black as much we can we'll be reaching out for more as we continue to progress with the project but this is a first step for us in getting some feedback on whatever development all that that they pulled in helped bring us to here and now we want more feedback to help continue with the project as we thank you so much for being here tonight and we're here
032to answer any questions you might have I love everything um as a physical education guy um oh Jim it's 117 degrees in Arizona you have no multi it is these spaces and that is to being involved with nature because good news in what nature is given you at every certain time genetic one of the things I I haven't even had a chance to share this yet but one of the things I want the vision team to get some time with is there's a concept out there I had never seen before an accidentally came across it recently but it's called Junk Parts has anyone ever heard of junk parts so yeah right so so then are in the you know you have to have what you consider an acceptable level of risk so that way kids
033are able to develop that you work your way up yeah yeah so I think somewhere between Awakening seeing starting with from home so that they're not just beautiful trees that were putting money into the watering but we actually are getting something that hot so that was one thing the other thing is just wait it's kind of problem so um so we had this unique opportunity with this property even though we're going to bring a lot of new trees and Greenery into the campus to at least preserve some of the mature trees so we give some differentiation in size and Heights uh I think there is definitely a push and we're actually working to find some partners that can help us bring in more some other things just to give kids a variety of experience with
034trees but definitely but then also um is Arizona Everett you know start rationing water and then we also have drought period IC so I'm very excited about about it the whole vision of doctor is awesome I've already been doing that though so like a Creator lab like a technology space because I really I don't really like this so we can have maybe teaches and um into consideration three or four months of the year it feels like the things that you're going to hire teachers to want to learn fluidly in the city and that's a huge consideration because they quoted videos and made PSA conservation everybody and it is a 10 degrees cooler than other parts of the city at all times and I looked to the Amazon and I I know that it has been
035actually meant that we're planning out whatever the plans were doesn't change to allow them to utilize the space and to get grounded before they ended classroom instead of just taking them off the bus and shoving projects and the States you know working together but you also need to think about how Native sincere how it is God intended to be proved in the balls to shaping into things it's meant to be left to go down more or less so it's not a hundred percent and it is certain that more maintenance but we are trying to use a plant palette that is allowed to go native and not intended to be pedicures you might see in a lot of other types yeah I think a lot of people when they hear outdoor school they go uh it's
036hot here I think this should be a perfect presentation to families that there is consideration above the Heat and things put in place so that it is not for the kids is tonight [Music] good Ness um