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New England Transportation Institute
and Museum |
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Area Located:
Lebanon, NH
Students
Served: N/A
Contact:
Susan
Hollins |
Ages/Grades:
Grades K-5
Web
Site: Click
Here |
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2005 Status: The
Museum advanced a pre-charter planning grant to the US Office of
Education in April and resubmitted their planning grant to the NH
Department of Education, this was approved. As
of 6/2005 the Museum has put the planning project on hold. |
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Abstract:
The New England Transportation is dedicated to transportation and
Connecticut River and Upper New England history. They are a provided
of programs for children and adults, including staff development
seminars related to history , geographic, and transportation.
Situated on the Connecticut River, at the site of one of the
most important railway thresholds, NETIM advanced a proposal to
design an elementary school in the fast-growing Upper Valley area.
The school envisioned would have a basic and strong academic curriculum
in all areas but would specialize in areas of history and geography,
and have special projects in transportation and New Hampshire
history.
The vision includes being a training site and in-service provider
for teacher education in regional and technology history, connecting
to state standards for high quality content education. The school's
designers are collaborating with one or more colleges in the area
who share an interest in the school's vision and potential for training
teachers in history.
The Museum itself contains 28 exhibits illustrating more than 350
years of river and rail transportation history and perspective on
its importance to the region’s future. Environmental issues concerning
this history will be highlighted. The museum and institute's
board currently brings together experts on transportation policy
and planning.
It should be noted that the Henry Ford Transportation Museum is
also the sponsor of a chartered public school on its grounds.
Persons interested in this project
are welcome to contact Susan
Holliins.
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| Pemi-Baker
Area Charter School |
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Area
Located: Plymouth, NH
Students
Served: N/A
Contact:
Ethel
Gaides |
Ages/Grades:
n/a
Web
Site: n/a |
| 2005
Status: The school already received a planning grant for
$15,000 from the N.H. Department of Education.
By
June, a site assessment and facility study should be complete and
a website will be developed to enhance community involvement. In
April and May, committee members will visit charter schools and
update the public at various meetings. In June, committee members
will complete the pre-planning project and submit the school’s charter
for approval.
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| Sandwich
Charter School |
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Area
Located: Plymouth, NH
Students
Served: N/A
Contact: |
Ages/Grades:
All students K-6
Web
Site: n/a |
| 2005
Status:
Vision
A school infused with the musical and visual arts collaborating
with one or more prominent music festivals, university and regional
craftsmen is the cornerstone of the vision desired by a diverse
group of Lakes Region residents.
Sandwich Central School currently is a small kindergarten through
sixth grade school in transition. Responding to declining enrollment
is providing an opportunity for the entire community to examine
what we do and how we might become a school which draws parents
to attend. Teachers, parents and townspeople are investigating several
possibilities including proposing a warrant article to reopen the
existing Sandwich Central School as a district-authorized charter
or open-enrollment school. We are also looking at the possibility
of reopening the existing Sandwich Central School as a public charter
school operated by an independent board of directors
Information to Support Charter Design
The Pre-Charter Planning group will look for “best practices” at
other institutions to help create our new school. The infusion of
the arts will look closely at models such as Opening Minds through
the Arts (OMA) in the Tucson (AZ) Unified School District; Learning
to Read Through the Arts in the New York City School System; and
Spectra+ Arts in Ohio. All of the cited programs included a research
component that showed statistically significant gains in student
achievement as measured against control groups that did not participate
in the different programs.
Contact:
John Hansen, Sandwich Central School
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