We've certainly been through many changes since I last updated this. I believe we were just weeks away from moving 8th graders from old to new. From that point on we had the enormous task of marking furniture from the "Vintage" building. We had to decide what things would make the move, where they would go, decide what could be sold or shuffled around the district and finally what items were trash.
Today, it is feeling more and more like a school-year flow. We have just come back from Thanksgiving break, kids and staff have been settled into new spaces for over a month now and we get ready for the pre-Winter Break anxiety.
Here are a variety of photos with a few lines.
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Kromrey Middle School - Middleton, Wisconsin - one of two middle schools in the Middleton-Cross Plains School District - just west of Lake Mendota in Madison, WI. We are 2/3rds complete with our $49m project.
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View looking west from one of our copter-flying parents. "Vintage" Kromrey can be seen at the bottom - we have just started to see the walls start to come down today. "Vintage will transform into music class rooms, Gateway to Technology/Engeneering, a fitness area, field-house, competition field and overflow parking. We are obviously excited to get to the end at this point.
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I am blessed to work with some great students and staff - here is a shot from summer planning with our admin team.
Big thanks to Mr. Engel - Dean of Students. He is a great systems (science) guy that get's er done!
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Important, now with stairs, to get some Evacuation Chair training in. He's a big ham - actually really easy to use the chair. I didn't have to hold him, rather had to push him down on the skids.
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Some great site-lines of dismissal from the 5th grade wing.
Here is a typical classroom that opens into a large collaboration space. Fun to watch people not only share lessons, but units of study in the space. Student engagement reported to be up too!
Now for some bitter-sweet
Demolition of "Vintage" Kromrey is underway. It won't take long now for the old bird to become a distant memory. Ten years in this building for me.
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Soon to be an area that will be an entrance for a field-house. Door to main hallway yanked off. Gotta get the forklift in there somehow...
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For those of you who attended this school in the 60's and 70's, this was the main entrance.
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