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| Welcome to the AHSCC | |
| |  Community Information Portal |
An Open Letter Concerning Naming the Alpine Area High School
Click Here To Learn About "Naming Our AHS", the Naming of the New Local Area High School
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Do you know children that will be in the Eighth (8th) Grade in 2012?
They will be Freshman at the new local high school!
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 | The Objective of the AHSCC Achieve an exemplary high school for the students, and community of Alpine in the fastest, most economical and effective means possible. This school will embody the spirit and values of the Alpine/Blossom Valley communities, and be dedicated to academic excellence and cultural diversity. |
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| Important Information, Alerts, Meeting Dates and Follow-up: (Click underlined text for details) 1] Large Scale Study of Middle Grades Practices and Student Outcomes! 1b] This Large Scale Study "In The News" 2] GUHSD Superintendent Collins Recent Newsletters 3] AHSCC Future Meeting Dates & Times 4] The AHSCC new "Joint Use Sub-Committee" seeks help! 5] February 22nd; AHSCC Regular Meeting Agenda 6] February 10th; AHSCC Joint-Use Meeting Agenda 7] January 18th; AHSCC Regular Meeting Agenda | |
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| To all Alpine High School advocates, The AHSCC receives on-going phone call inquiry’s and e-mails about the Alpine HS. Some are full of pleasantries, a few are full of misdirected anger. It seems that sometimes we forget that we all should be focused on the adage, “One for all, and all for one”, changed to reflect a local wish; “Alpine High School is for us all, and we all should support the Alpine High School” Below are a few POINTS to act as reminders of some CONSTRAINTS which the AHSCC operates under; 1. The AHSCC is an ALL VOLUNTEER organization… (no one is paid… no one personally benefits) 2. AHS dream; ongoing over 15 years, thru 4 GUHSD Superintendents + numerous new Bd. Members. 3. Alpine HS; 1st funded by $30 Mil in Certificates of Participation (COPs used for Steele Canyon HS) 4. Alpine HS was then to be funded with the passage of Prop H… $274 million in bond funds. 5. Alpine HS is now to be phased-in, funded under the recent Prop; $417 million in added bond funds. AHS has come up short many times over, and rightly justified, many-many in Alpine feel jilted by past GUHSD actions. However, now we need to all work cooperatively together, set aside personal disagreements, accept what is, not skew reality… accept that public school fiscal realities are dismal… that school district budgets are tight, and that fiscal uncertainty will continue. The Alpine High School is on the brink of a ground breaking ceremony becoming reality sometime this Summer (2010), and the 1st phase of AHS will be built and opened by September 2013. We should all be celebrating this scope of achievement… the glass is more than half-full. There will be playfields and physical education fields, at a minimum, facilities and classrooms for 800 Alpine high school students. These are indisputable realities and facts. Going forward, I'd like to encourage us all to jointly concentrate our current efforts towards constructing AHS, leveraging known funding, appreciating what we have gained, and meanwhile continue to look at potential outside of the bond sources of funds, to help provide additional community use facilities on the AHS campus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the AHSCC, and engage in a collaborative discussion on the above and all issues; Subject: Next AHSCC Meeting - Monday Mar., 22nd, @ 6:30 PM Where: The Alpine Sheriff’s Office Community Room ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Respectfully, Bill Weaver Chairman - Alpine high School Citizens Committee Civic Advocate & Education Community Volunteer billweaver@AHSCC.com |
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| Media and Membership - Progress & Update Reports: (Click underlined text for details) March 2010 AHS Update Report February 2010 AHS Update Report January 2010 AHS Update Report December 2009 AHS Update Report (Click here for meeting documents of Dec. meeting) |
| See the Alpine High School Guiding Principles, Directing the GUHSD's Planning Teams Review the AHSCC 12th HS Curriculum and Design Foundational Principles Document |
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| Several folks representing the GUHSD Design Team traveled to Seattle, WA on November 4th to tour several state-of-the-art school designs (including 3 of your own AHSCC members). We spent three total days touring several "small learning community" schools to gather ideas, and we also visited a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation facility. The Architects and GUHSD Facility Planner on our Alpine HS were all present on our Seattle area schools tour. See below for more... |
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Click the title underlined for article... What Makes A High School Great?
The "Mobile Learning Institute's" film series on... A 21st Century Education
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Explore one of numerous models (the DSST is simply one) for our 12th HS here;
“Schools Designed for Learning: The Denver School of Science and Technology”
(video and resource guide linked below)
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"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation."
... Jack Kinder
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Review the AHSCC 12th HS Curriculum and Design Foundational Principles Document
Let's reinvent schools; Read this school architect's thoughts ;This article really sums it up!
| -- August 2009 -- |
| The design team for the new 12th GUHSD Alpine High School has been selected. The design work is being handled by a partnership of firms unanimously approved by the Governing Board. IBI Group (Irvine, CA) and Sprotte-Watson (Vista, CA) was awarded the contract. IBI Group has an office in San Diego, in addition to the larger Irvine office. The Corporate office is in Canada, and they have other international locations. The website of IBI Group reveals that the Architects in this office were all part of the smaller firm named Thomas Blurock Architects. Thomas Blurock designed Alpines' Joan McQueen Middle School and Boulder Oaks Elementary, afterward was integrated into IBI Group in 2006. The practice of Thomas Blurock Architects continues as the California educational facilities unit of IBI Group, and includes all the former principals of the predecessor firm. Youmight wonder about their resume and experience for designing high schools, well they’ve done them, and won several architectural design awards. Sprotte-Watson is home grown with the one local Vista office, and also has several listed academic institutions in their portfolio. The Civil Engineer that is part of the team is Snipes Dye from La Mesa. They will do most of the utilities and sitedesign work. They have extensive East County experience. This School will be built on 92 total acres; East of the Albertsons Center at around 3148 Alpine Boulevard. There is reported to be 47.8 net usable acres. Tentatively there is planned to be 23.8 acres for physical education and sports facilities, 10.4 acres for education buildings and grounds, and 13.6acres for parking and roads. Mr. Robert Collins, GUHSD Superintendent, has asked the Alpine HighSchool Citizens Committee, and its Sub-Committees, to solicit as many interested local community members as possible to make sure that this new Alpine High School delivers high standards for curriculum, with state-of-the-art facilities, to ensure that it offers academic excellence, cultural diversity, and satisfies our communities needs and desires. Sign up at "ContactUs" and help "participate to oversee and assist" the GUHSD, and their design team. ------------------ -- Update on September 15th, 2009 -- This is a short note to update you (our most interested community AHSCC members) on our future 12th GUHSD high school which is to be constructed here in Alpine, and opened by Sept. 2013,or before; The most important news from the 1st GUHSD DESIGN & CURRICULUM MEETING is that the architectural team has brought in a consultant, from Washington State,to assist in determining the overall design concepts for our Alpine high school. The consultant has published a book; the book's synopsis is linked below. Our expert consultant's name is Victoria Bergsagel. She is the President of "Architects of Achievement", located in Seattle. Ms. Bergsagel has (philosophically) similar visions to what we have laid out in our own AHSCC - 38 page "Foundational Principles" Draft Document, here and again linked at the beginning of this section. (for your review) The two GUHSD commissioned work committees; 1) Design Committee, and 2) Educational Specifications Committee, (These two above committees of the GUHSD are now combined as one DESIGN TEAM) Will develop it's own guideline documents. However, the information in our own AHSCC prepared document was presented, and the groups both agreed to review its content and use it as a reference for future discussions. A review of the table of contents of Ms. Bergsagels book, reveals that she does have the same visions for the needs of a new high school facility that we (AHSCC) have presented in our 38 page draft (linked above). This is the beginning of a very exciting process, which includes a collection of very talented and visionary architects, education consultants, and our own Alpine community's citizens... All collectively collaborating as team members! See Victoria Bergsagel's website here; http://www.archachieve.org/ See Victoria Bergsagel's book below; Architecture for Achievement: Building Patterns for Small School Learning |
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Please help us assure the new HS fits your needs as well as other local needs, click here and attend an AHSCC Meeting; also, join a Sub-Committee or help with costs with a PayPal®Site donation! No personal benefit comes to AHSCC members, children and future generations will benefit. Donate time or funds... help our objective; an exemplary high school. Help local children, help us all, help to create joint use community facilities; Please Join a Sub-Committee Ensure our H.S. has high standards for academic excellence and cultural diversity, and also is "Architecturally" up to our gold standard of being beautiful and functional! |
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For GUHSD Communications Go To PO Box 1043 La Mesa, CA 91944 Business Ph#: (619) 644-8083 1) Superintendent Robert Collins 2) The Governing Board |
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 The Alpine High School Citizens Committee (AHSCC)
is a self-funded (donations) citizen volunteer group that has been diligently looking out for Alpine’s interests as it has been
working with the Grossmont Union High School District (GUHSD) over the
past 10 years since being founded. We're a voice of reason, respected & listened to by GUHSD staff, and Robert Collins, Superintendent. It was on November 4th, 2008 that the Grossmont Union High School District, with the help of the AHSCC, passed Proposition U. This bond will complete what the 2004 Prop H could not finish, including the construction of a new GUHSD high school in the Alpine and Blossom Valley area. Our AHSCC Working Sub-Committees must be representative and diverse. We invite all to help follow our new high school’s site acquisition, and plan the design, financial oversight, and curriculum & career technical education programs. | | GUHSD 55% Passes Prop 39 Bonds; ------- $274 Million Prop H; 62% Yes Mar '04 ------- $417 Million Prop U; 56.7% Yes Nov '08 | ||
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