Possible sites to visit
University Laboratory High School–Urbana, Il
Woodlawn High School, Arlington, VA
www.arlington.k12.va.us/schools/woodlawn
San Diego High School of International Studies–San Diego, Ca
High Tech High School–San Diego, CA
Cherry Creek High School–Denver, Ca
Arapahoe High School, Littleton, Co (added by Carolyn –they are working on a vision committee as well)
http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/
21st Century Schools (List Provided by Nola Wellman)
Western States Consortium–www.wsbenchmark.org
Blue
Valley Unified
School District,
Overland Park, Kansas
Cherry
Creek
Schools,
Englewood, Colorado
Lake Washington
School District,
Redmond, Washington
Peoria Unified
School District,
Peoria, Arizona
Plano ISD,
Plano, Texas
Poway Unified
School District,
Poway, California
Vancouver
School District,
Vancouver, Washington
High Achieving Benchmarking Consortium Eanes ISD
Highland Park ISD,
Dallas, Texas
Ladue
Public Schools,
St. Louis, MissouriNew
Trier
Township
High School,
Wilmette, Illinois and
Winnetka, Illinois
Palo Alto Unified
School District,
Palo Alto, California
Westside
Community
Schools,
Omaha, Nebraska
Wilmette
Public
School District 39,
Wilmette, Illinois
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on December 1st, 2006 at 2:55 pm
I think site visits are awesome and the schools listed above are all good choices and out of state. Remember that schools you visit which are out of state are under different educational jurisdiction and subject to different rules and regs. Wouldn’t it be better to find schools in the state of Texas that are using best practices under the existing TEA auspices? Many of the things out-of-state schools are doing would be alien to the antideluvian infrastructure that yokes our creativity here in Texas. Just a thought.