Town Of Wakefield: Want To Be A Part Of The High School Building Project Process?

Press release from the Town of Wakefield:

October 21, 2021 - 4:03pm

Want to be a part of the Wakefield Memorial High School (WMHS) building project process?

Four workshops, taking place this fall, will inform the design of a potential new WMHS facility through a step-by-step visioning process aimed at capturing participants’ best thinking about WMHS’s current and future educational goals and priorities and connecting them to best practices and possibilities in innovative school facility design.

Wakefield Public Schools leadership, administrators, teachers, parents, community partners, and the general public can participate in four 2.5-hour educational and architectural Visioning Workshops, via Zoom, facilitated by New Vista Design and SMMA. The project team is seeking participants who can participate in all four of the workshops. If you are interested in being part of the visioning process, please pre-register by Monday, October 25 at 4 p.m. by emailing WakefieldMHSBuildingProject@gmail.com.

While the public can attend these events, only those who are preregistered can be placed into the breakout groups for discussion. The workshops are designed to be highly participatory, engaging, and informative. Each workshop will be different and will build upon the priorities set in previous workshops.

About the Workshops

Workshop One: Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 6:30-9 p.m.

• Priority educational, architectural and community goals for the WMHS facility
• Future-forward learning goals and practices that are now being implemented within, or envisioned for, WMHS

Join via Zoom. If you do not have a camera or microphone on your computer you may use the following dial in number: 1-312-626-6799 Meeting ID 884 8265 1587 Passcode 684666. This meeting will be audio and video recorded.

Workshop Two: Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 6:30-9 p.m.

• Overview of key programs and Initiatives within WMHS
• Strengths, challenges, opportunities, and goals (SCOG Analysis) associated with WMHS’s current academic programming as well as the school’s vision for its future
• 21st century design patterns that innovative schools throughout the country have put into practice in order to support their forward-thinking learning goals on the level of facility design

Join via Zoom. If you do not have a camera or microphone on your computer you may use the following dial in number: 1-312-626- 6799 Meeting ID 842 6818 2488 Passcode 136327. This meeting will be audio and video recorded.

Workshop Three: Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 6:30-9 p.m.

• Guiding principles and priorities for the design of the WMHS facility
• Blue sky ideas that participants would like to see realized within the WMHS facility
• Key spaces and adjacencies for the WMHS facility

Join via Zoom. If you do not have a camera or microphone on your computer you may use the following dial in number: 1-312-626-6799 Meeting ID 853 4910 1336 Passcode 429930. This meeting will be audio and video recorded.

Workshop Four: Thursday, November 30, 2021, 6:30-9 p.m.

•  Bubble diagramming of conceptual design ideas for the WMHS facility
• Key talking points that the group would like to communicate to the Wakefield community
• Next steps for project development

Join via Zoom. If you do not have a camera or microphone on your computer you may use the following dial in number: 1-312-626-6799 Meeting ID 831 8631 7160 Passcode 949682. This meeting will be audio and video recorded.

Additional Update Meetings

For those who cannot participate in the Educational Visioning Workshops there will be two public forums to provide updates and report on the progress of the Educational Visioning Group. These will take place on Wednesday, November 10 at 7 p.m. and Thursday, December 9 at 7 pm.  Details will be posted soon on the project website. Workshop presentations, materials and video will also be posted to the project website for viewing.

This press release was produced by the Town of Wakefield.The views expressed here are the author’s own.