New Technology High School
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New Technology High School is a secondary school
located in Napa, California
.
The school was founded in 1997 as a joint project of the Napa Valley Unified School District
and the business community of the Napa Valley. One business community member, Ted Fujimoto, was instrumental in visioning the model. Napa New Technology High School is the first of over 80 schools based on this model across the United States
. The school is a National Model School and Center for Secondary special education School Reform Showcase School, and received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation replication grant.
The New Technology Foundation was established in 2000 to replicate the model.
The New Technology High School model's primary mode of instruction is Project Based Learning (PBL). The school model's implementation of Project Based Learning was originally derived from project management protocols used by teams at Napa-based company Landmark Consulting Group, Inc. (a company owned by Ted Fujimoto) for software development and business process reengineering projects.
The school used Lotus Notes groupware software with custom templates to aid in project team collaboration and communication. These templates were modified for school use from Landmark Consulting Group's project templates.
Later, the New Technology Foundation migrated the entire system to be web-based--now called Echo.
In 2009, The New Technology Foundation was acquired by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and is now called the New Tech Network.
New Tech Network
Knowledge Works Foundation
Landmark Consulting Group, Inc.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
located in Napa, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
The school was founded in 1997 as a joint project of the Napa Valley Unified School District
Napa Valley Unified School District
The Napa Valley Unified School District is a school district located in Napa County, California. It was the first school district to purchase a plug-in hybrid diesel school bus....
and the business community of the Napa Valley. One business community member, Ted Fujimoto, was instrumental in visioning the model. Napa New Technology High School is the first of over 80 schools based on this model across the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The school is a National Model School and Center for Secondary special education School Reform Showcase School, and received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation replication grant.
The New Technology Foundation was established in 2000 to replicate the model.
The New Technology High School model's primary mode of instruction is Project Based Learning (PBL). The school model's implementation of Project Based Learning was originally derived from project management protocols used by teams at Napa-based company Landmark Consulting Group, Inc. (a company owned by Ted Fujimoto) for software development and business process reengineering projects.
The school used Lotus Notes groupware software with custom templates to aid in project team collaboration and communication. These templates were modified for school use from Landmark Consulting Group's project templates.
Later, the New Technology Foundation migrated the entire system to be web-based--now called Echo.
In 2009, The New Technology Foundation was acquired by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and is now called the New Tech Network.
See also
Leonardo da Vinci High SchoolLeonardo da Vinci High School
Leonardo Da Vinci High School is located at 1400 E. 8th street in Davis, California . DVHS has about 350 students, and is expected to grow to 400 students...
New Tech Network
Knowledge Works Foundation
Landmark Consulting Group, Inc.