Black Diamond Elementary School
Educational Specification Workshop 1
December 15, 2014

Today’s Agenda
+ Why are we here?
+ Schedule
+ Help us get to know you
+ Calisthenics for Creativity
+ Thinking about Architecture for Education
+ Set Goals
+ Homework

Introductions
+ What is an Ed Spec?
+ What is Conceptual Design?
+ And what are we doing?

What we ask of You
+ Be engaged
+ Be positive (there are no bad ideas)
+ Think Long Term and Big Picture
+ Think outside the box
+ Speak-up
+ Have fun
L a k e W a s h i n g t o n S c h o o l D i s t r i c t

+ We explore a lot of ideas
+ We reject a lot of ideas
+ We bring the better ideas forward for you
+ We modify and revise ideas

Project Schedule
Dec 2014 – Jan 2015
Feb 2015 - March 2015
April 2015
April 2015- May 2015
June 2015 – Aug 2015
Sept 2015 - Jan 2016
Feb 2016
June 2016 - Aug 2017
Input / Preliminary Planning
Develop conceptual design / layout
Bond
Schematic Design
Design Development
Technical Design / Permit
Bid
Construct new Building / Move in
L a k e W a s h i n g t o n S c h o o l D i s t r i c t

Pre-design Schedule
December 15, 2014
January 5, 2015
January 15, 2015
Week of January 15 th , 2015
January 19-23, 2015
January 26, 2015
February 9, 2015
February 26, 2015
Week of March 9, 2015
Workshop 1 – Ed specs, Vision & Goals
Touring Schools
Workshop 2 – Building Requirements
Community Meeting(s)
User Group Meetings - Space Needs
Workshop 3 – Design Options
Workshop 4 – Refined Design Options
Workshop 5 – Preferred Option Chosen
Community Meeting(s)
L a k e W a s h i n g t o n S c h o o l D i s t r i c t

Building Program
+ 500 Students
+ 53,000 Square Feet (SF)
+ $23 million Project Cost
+ 7.5 acre site in multiple parcels
+ City Park adjacencies
+ Drop-off issues
+ District Standards:
Building systems
Technology
Classroom size
L a k e W a s h i n g t o n S c h o o l D i s t r i c t

District Mission
The mission of the Enumclaw School District is to provide an education that supports all students achieving at high levels!
District Vision
Head: Academic Excellence -To provide staff and students rigorous and relevant learning opportunities
Heart: People - To support learning through honest and caring communication
Hands: System Development To align resources to support student, staff, community and organizational learning
Habits: Culture -To recognize and honor the similarities and differences within the total school learning community

District Values
Learning - We will focus our work around the four key
Professional Learning Community questions.
Results - We will work to evaluate our work based on results rather than activities and intentions.
Contributions We will invite and welcome the contributions of every member and listen to each other.
Decision-Making - We recognize that in a collaborative culture, various decisions are best made at the different levels of leadership within our district and buildings according to the specific context and circumstance of the issue.
Communication - We operate in a collegial and friendly atmosphere.
Collaboration - We work in a high-trust, yet demanding culture. We view disagreement as a normal part of change and are able to value and work through differences.

Tell us about the property and setting
+ History, Cultural Significance
+ Frontage, edges, best places
+ Community use
+ The Neighborhood

Tell us about your School
+ Mission: Black Diamond Elementary School is a thinking
and sharing community that inspires learning.
+ Vision:
+ Values:

Tell us about your School
+
School’s unique character
+ Special Programs
+ Events
+ History
+ Tradition

The Talk of the Town
+ The Flipped Classroom
+ The Third Teacher
+ Deeper Learning
+ Personalized Assessment / Feedback
+ the 3 C’s – Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking

Thinking about Education
+ How has education changed?
+ How does the current school serve the program?
+ How might education change in the future?
+ How could the new school serve future programs ?

Personal computers around for 3 decades… but Classrooms look largely the same

21 st Century Learning

Northern Beaches K-8
Australia

Kaisa Nuikken, Helsinki

Snohomish, Washington

Sustainable Architecture
+ Environmentally Responsible
+ Energy Efficiency
+ Integrate Sustainability with Learning
+ Provide Balanced Natural Daylight

Sustainable Architecture
Average energy use at a new school

Integrate the Environment with Learning

What Goals should we have for the new
Black Diamond Elementary School?
+ Educational
+ Cultural
+ Environmental

What design elements or features would you like to see in the new Black Diamond
Elementary School?
+ From Student Perspective
+ From Community Perspective
+ From Staff Perspective

The Third Teacher
Reading: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/CBS_ThirdTeacher.pdf
Video (7 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdtGxJfqQk
Ron Berger: Creating an Ethic of Excellence http://vimeo.com/21983525 (35 minutes, at least start from minute 25)
Randy Nelson (Pixar): Living & Working in the Collaborative Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXJe8ANws8 (9 mins)
Trillium Creek Elementary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7AZMNxReA&feature=youtu.be
Just for fun:
How Schools Kill Creativity – Sir Ken Robinson http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en