School Solutions – Best Business Practices series

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2. AASA’s Script Welcome: School Solutions Center – • Thanks for joining this conversation on curriculum funding with bonds • The School Solutions Center was created in 2009 to help school districts cut costs, created efficiencies, and help improve student performance Best Business Practices series

3. HOST Sonnie Lee School Solutions Center Coordinator

4. TOPIC Meeting Today’s Curriculum Challenges thru Capital Projects

5. PRESENTERS Lynne Tompkins Educational Administrator Niagara Falls City Public Schools Cynthia Bianco Superintendent Niagara Falls City Public Schools Mark Laurrie Deputy Superintendent Niagara Falls City Public Schools

6. PUBLIC EDUCATION Today

7. New Academic Standards School Infrastructure School Budgets

8. NIAGARA FALLS CITY T I N G T O I N V E N M O R R IT Project O W October 21st, 2013

9. Background

10. RESULTS • Capital Improvement • Increased Security • Increase Student Achievement • ADA Compliant • Energy Efficiencies

17. CDC “…physical activity can have an impact on cognitive skills…attitudes…academic behavior…enhanced concentration and attention as well as improved classroom behavior.”

20. MORE RESULTS • NO Increase in local taxes • NO teacher or student displaced*

22. STEM SOLUTION PARTNERS Matt Frankenberry Pitsco Education Director of Education Todd Smith Pitsco Education National Sales Manager

23. Technolog y just No t

24. Learning Environments

25. STEM solutions for elementary, middle, and high school

26. Algebra Academy at Carolina High School & Academy • Implementation Example • Only failing high school in Greenville, SC • 83% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch • School’s Algebra I end-of-course pass rate in 2008 was 58%

27. Solution Partners Mark Emerson Chevron Education National Sales Manager

28. Working for Schools

29. CES/Pitsco Success Story Nuview Union School District • PROGRAM SCOPE • 622 KW of solar at four locations • Wireless programmable thermostats • Rooftop replacement • Interior and exterior lighting upgrades • New refrigerator and freezing units • Envision™ Education Program with Pitsco STEM Lab • Living learning labs for 7th and 8th graders • Energy behavior program • Professional development teacher workshops • FINANCE • $6.9MM paid-through savings and incentives over 20 years • PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS • $5.2MM net savings over 30 years • $565,000 from utility incentives • $50,000 operational and maintenance savings every year • Equivalent of removing 215 cars from the roads

30. Partnering for Progress Clean reliable sustainable energy efficient economic solutionsfor our K-12 partners • Your most critical goals: • Modernize facilities • Improve learning environments • Generate savings • Funnel savings back into the classroom • Bridge innovation • Fund hands-on STEM curriculum • Raise student achievement

31. Hindsight/ Q&A Would you recommend this solution to other school districts? What would you do differently? How would you advise others from improving on the process? How did you decide how to use the funds? What was the most positive experience of the entire process? What was the most negative experience of the entire process? How did your school district prep for bringing STEM into your district?

32. http://www.internationalschoolsfirstaid.com/Site/Design/Application/Sections/primary/home/images/hands_up_kids.png (kids) • http://www.appletreeinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Feature-New-Look2.jpg (boys with book) • http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/tipstechniques/applicationdevelopment/project_pitfalls/ (IBM)