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Educational Visioning Workshop Overview

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During the months of May - June 2024, the Kittredge Elementary School (Educational Visioning Group (EVG) – a group of North Andover Public Schools (NAPS) and Kittredge Elementary School (KES) leadership, school administrators, teachers, specialists, parents, and community partners will participate in three virtual Educational Visioning Workshops run by Machado Silvetti Architects and New Vista Design. Each workshop will be a collaborative session designed to inform the design of the renovated and/or new KES facility. Participants will be led through a step-by-step visioning process aimed at capturing their best thinking about NAPS and KES’s current and future academic goals and priorities and connecting them to best practices and possibilities in innovative elementary school facility design.

All three workshops (WS) will take place virtually (Zoom meeting links to follow) in the early evening. Each workshop is different, and builds upon the previous one, so it is most beneficial to attend all three if possible.  

All workshops are designed to be highly participatory, engaging, and informative. The educational and architectural goals set during these workshops will have a direct and tangible impact on the design approach toward, and features of the renovated and/or new school facility. We do hope that you will consider taking part in the workshops and sharing your ideas and dreams for the Kittredge Elementary School. Meetings will start and end on time. 

WS One will take place virtually on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, from 6:00-8:15 and will explore the following topics:  

  • Priority Goals for North Andover Public Schools educational programming and a renovated and/or new KES facility 

  • Future-Ready Teaching and Learning Practices that are important to NAPS and KES, both now as envisioned for the coming decades

  • Future Ready Learning Goals that distill the group’s best thinking about KES’s current and future academic programming and priorities

WS Two will take place virtually on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, from 6:00-8:15 and will explore the following topics:  

  • Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities, and Goals (SCOG Analysis) associated with KES’s current educational programming as well as the district’s vision for its future

  • Architectural Design Patterns, features, and approaches that KES would like to put into practice within a renovated and/or new facility

WS Three will take place virtually on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, from 6:30-8:45 and will explore the following topics:  

  • Guiding Principles for the design of the renovated and/or new KES facility 

  • Blue Sky Aspirational Ideas for the design of the renovated and/or new KES facility

  • Bubble Diagramming of conceptual design ideas for the renovated or KES new facility

Please contact Principal Richard Cushing at cushingr@northandoverpublicschools.com if you would like more information about the upcoming workshops and how to take part in them.