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Missoula’s Collaborative Learning Network, LLC Works with XQ Super School Team to Complete Semi-Final Round
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Nick Salmon is an educator, professional development coach, educational facility planner and founder of the Collaborative Learning Network, LLC http://www.collaborativelearningnetwork.com/ in Missoula and has been supporting the Heartland Hills team since early February.
The team completed the Design Phase in just 6 weeks in order to articulate the details of their proposal with the intent of becoming one of the five finalist in August.
The XQ Super School Project announced 348 semi-finalists for the $50,000,000 school transformation prize including the Heartland Hills team of students, educators, administrators, community leaders, design professionals from rural and urban communities across Kansas.
Nick Salmon, Founder & President of the Collaborative Learning Network, LLC
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Although the XQ prize was focused on transforming high school, the Heartland Hills team developed a robust PK-12 relationship-based, time flexible program that focuses on learning through projects that address significant community needs. The funds would be used for professional development and minor transformations to existing facilities throughout the network of urban and rural public schools to support the teaching and learning program.
The XQ Super School Project began with more than 10,000 participants generating more than 1400 concepts and 700 applications for the $50,000,000 prize for 5 schools.
WHY:
The next three generations of young people to be educated in buildings that are being built today are entering a world of greater uncertainty and more rapid change than even the past decade. Traditional school facilities do a good job keeping people apart, reinforcing the notion that a teacher is an independent contractor, working alone, faced with resolving all of the problems of the universe within the four walls of their classroom.
HOW:
It is possible to design new schools that are smaller than conventional schools, but that dedicate a significantly greater portion of the facility to teaching and learning. It is also possible to transform existing facilities to capture more of the building for teaching and learning and improve future-flexibility.
WHAT:
The school of the future is likely to be a facility we already own, dramatically transformed with limited resources for teaching and learning in a dynamic century. Those schools typically embrace a relationship-based, learner-focused and time-flexible model that nurtures failure, recovery and persistence of every learner.
Current Clients:
Kempsey Adventist School, Kempsey, NSW, AU. Professional Development for 60 teachers. July 2016.
Equity Schools, Chicago, IL. Non-linear school funding support. June-September 2016
Private Design Firm, Strategic Planning and Rebranding. June 2016.
Dennis & Phyllis Washing College of Education Department of Education Leadership. University of Montana Guest Commentator with Professor Daniel Lee Facilities Planning June-July 2016.
Pine Creek Elementary School. Facility Programming. May 2016.
Upper West Shore Elementary School. Educational Facility Planning. May 2016.
Learning Environments For Tomorrow Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Facilitator, May 2016
Ohio Facility Construction Commission. Educational Facility Planning. 2016-2018
XQ Super School Heartland Hills Team, Kansas February-May 2016
Montana State University School of Architecture, Community Design Center February-April 2016
CSRA/US Environmental Protection Agency. School Site Evaluation Facilitation. 2016-2018
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