Facilities Committee
Board of Education Presentation
Space Utilization SubCommittee
March 7, 2011
Space Utilization Sub-Committee
Diane Abram
Ellen Fagerburg
Jason Kaiz
Alex Kamilewicz
Katherine Leckenby
Chris Northwick
Steve Pate
Drew Satherlie
Susan Zimmer
Teacher
Wesley
Asst. Principal
Community
Teacher
B.O.E.
Architect
Parent
Teacher
Rob Conner
Dr. Gerald Hill
Bob Lanzerotti (Chair)
Admin Assistant
Superintendent
Director of Facilities
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Introduction & Goal Review
 Goal (from 2/22/2010):
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Define and collect empirical data that describes extent of
space constraints (in D34 schools)
 Why?
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Enough space for housing students is not the same as
enough space for educating students
Mobiles have negative image amongst parents
Re-purposing space is often necessary, but rarely ideal
No clear idea of what % of a child’s day is spent in lessthan-ideal space
 Scope Change
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Attea & Springman excluded from this year’s analysis
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Methodology
 Created an analysis framework & approach
 Defined a red/yellow/green rating model for instructional
space
 Established a data-gathering approach and collected
instructional time data from each school
 Conducted walk-throughs of each school to identify
ratings
 Compared findings across district and finalized analysis
and conclusions
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Data Collection & Rating Example
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Overall Results
District 34
10% 3%
(overall instructional time / week)
GREEN
• Purpose-built for current use
• No easily identifiable environmental or infrastructure
concerns (natural light, artificial light, power, HVAC,
teaching aids, etc…)
• In general, space is not described as “yes, but”
87%
YELLOW
GREEN
• 83,337 hours / week
YELLOW
• 9,629 hours / week
RED
• 3,512 hours / week
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• “Not optimal but works”
• Could be temporary creative solution
• Could depend on class size (i.e. could change)
• Identified environmental or infrastructure concerns
• Mobile classroom only if end date identified
RED
• Doesn’t work, needs attention
• Serious identified environmental or infrastructure
concerns (especially if multiple)
• Mobile classroom if no end date identified
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Overall Results
Henking
(overall instructional time / week)
Westbrook
4%
2%
Lyon
4%3%
16%
14%
70%
Hoffman
11%
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Glen Grove
11%
89%
93%
94%
Pleasant Ridge
11%
89%
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Henking & Hoffman
Henking
• Very considerable challenges, not even including mobile
classrooms
• Every space besides General Education rooms are seriously
compromised for instruction
16%
• Some spaces (i.e. “atrium spaces”) considered very poor (i.e.
limited HVAC, limited space, multiple instruction in tiny space)
14%
70%
• Staff has repurposed virtually all administrative space
(conference rooms, lounges, offices) for instructional space to
ease overcrowding
• Remove Mobiles and Red goes to 6%
Hoffman
11%
• Operating just under full capacity: additional students will
require significant changes to instructional space coordination
and use
• Some stress on common areas (i.e. gym) due to capacity
increase from addition without increase in common area sizes
• Most shared instruction space (i.e. for pull-out programs) under
stress
89%
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Henking & Hoffman
Henking “Atrium” Space
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Westbrook & Glen Grove
Westbrook
4%
2%
• No major issues – below capacity
• Red = Early Childhood classes in Mobiles
• Yellow = Two overfull Kindergarten classes
• Limited Storage
• One staff washroom for 65 staff members
94%
Glen Grove
11%
• No major issues
• Challenges arise mainly from using administrative space
(lounges, conference rooms) for instruction, though it mainly
works
• Gym not large enough for all P.E. sessions
89%
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Lyon & Pleasant Ridge
Lyon
4%3%
• Age of building is a concern, and poses space constraints
• Space challenges mainly for smaller / pull-out classes
• ELL and most speech rooms are clearly inadequate
• Drama currently on a cart
• Gym currently OK, but will go to Yellow with additional students
93%
Pleasant Ridge
11%
• Limited storage, classroom shelving tends to be overloaded
• No major issues
• Space challenges are mainly for common space (Gym sections,
Multi-Purpose Room usage)
• Limited storage – external storage being used to supplement
89%
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Overall Conclusions
 Staff display incredible creativity and flexibility in making
existing space work
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Situation could be considerably worse
 Most challenges come from insufficient / inadequate
space for small groups
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This anticipated to increase, not decrease
 Additions / Mobiles solve immediate and most visible
needs (i.e. General Education classrooms), but create
issues in the way of common space usage and small
group space availability
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Q&A / Next Steps
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