Why SchoolCAMP?
Even thriving school districts have many challenges to overcome. SchoolCAMP believes every district should have the opportunity to identify the underlying challenges in their community, and address those challenges to ensure success for all students now and for our collective future.
It takes honesty, openness, and time to get to root issues, and to commit to addressing root issues collectively as a unified community.
Your district might be facing:
- Changing enrollment numbers (declining and/or growing student populations)
- Outdated school boundaries
- Misalignment of academic programs with local and regional workforce needs
- Unsafe biking/walking opportunities for getting to/from school
- Bus driver shortages or other bus route concerns
- Unhealthy physical environment (e.g. mold, broken heating/cooling equipment, etc.)
- Limited good food for students and staff, or limited engagement between schools and local producers
- Outdated and crumbling school buildings and infrastructure
- High energy costs
- The need for more resilience hubs
- And more
Frequently Asked Questions
Great schools are central to thriving communities. And thriving communities require great schools. School districts, city governments, county governments, and communities are often planning and operating in silos, missing opportunities for alignment and support, duplicating efforts, and limiting their ability to realize their dreams. School and community aligned master planning is a tailored, thoughtful, all-are-welcome approach to make sure everyone in a community has a chance to share their hopes and dreams, learn from each other and local experts, and collectively design long-term plans for the infrastructure, academic programs, and people that will nurture happy, healthy kids and communities now and far into the future. School and community aligned master planning brings together school staff, city staff, county staff, students, families, and community to do hard work together, to understand the importance of investing in their community through schools, and to develop plans that work for everyone. SchoolCAMP offers a host of tools, resources, and expertise to each community, and each project is uniquely designed to meet the needs of the community in the moment and for the long-term. SchoolCAMP will create opportunities for education, visioning, and design so that elected leaders, appointed leaders, and the community have the tools to collaboratively design an exciting future of schools that accounts for whatever the realities are on the ground and supports thriving communities within the context of that reality going forward. We may host listening sessions, hold educational opportunities, bring in specific subject matter experts, help the community draft academic programs, conduct infrastructure assessments, identify infrastructure investment opportunities, right-size student populations to building sizes, align buildings with program needs, identify opportunities for school operations adjustments (e.g. school food, school transportation, maintenance, etc.), and much more. Through all our work, SchoolCAMP provides opportunities for connection between all parties impacted by, and able to impact, schools and school operations in order for the community to have the most values-aligned, community-supported outcomes. Anyone can pick up the phone or send an email to SchoolCAMP – we’d love to connect! Often we hear from school administrators, school operations specialists, school boards, city and county elected officials, city and county staff, large businesses interested in k-12 curriculum alignment to meet their industry needs, and citizen groups. Regardless of who they are or what groups they represent, folks are reaching out to SchoolCAMP because they are interested in supporting long-term planning for thriving schools and communities. It is always a good time to think about the long-term in schools – whether you have a bond referendum on the horizon, changing demographics, crumbling infrastructure, new leadership, misalignment between community values and what is offered in schools – SchoolCAMP is ready to assist.What is school and community aligned master planning?
When SchoolCAMP is invited into a community, what do we do?
Who is SchoolCAMP for?