- New Technology High School
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New Technology High School Motto Trust, Respect, and Responsibility Established 1997 Type Comprehensive high school Principal Howard Mahoney Faculty Yes Students 400 limit. Currently around 360 Grades 9–12 Location 920 Yount St
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Napa, California
, USA 
Colours Purple and silver Mascot Penguin Website http://www.newtechhigh.org 
Front of the school-Prior to the '09-'10 renovation.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.[1] 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[clarification needed], and received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation replication grant.[2]
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).[3] 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.[4]
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.[5][6]
Later, the New Technology Foundation migrated the entire system to be web-based--now called Echo.[7]
In 2009, The New Technology Foundation was acquired by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and is now called the New Tech Network.[8]
References
- ^ http://aufdenspring.com/conghear.html "EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS: WHAT WORKS? WHAT'S WASTED?" COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIELD HEARING Testimony of Mark Morrison JANUARY 29, 1997 Retrieved August 7, 2011
- ^ http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/new-technology-high-school-model-001114.aspx Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Web Site November 14, 2000 (Retrieved August 8, 2011)
- ^ http://www.bobpearlman.org/Articles/21stCenturyLearning.htm This is a preprint of an article published in New Directions for Youth Development, Volume 2006, Issue 110 (Summer 2006), Special Issue: The Case for Twenty-First Century Learning, Issue Edited by Eric Schwarz, Ken Kay, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/97015503. Retrieved August 7, 2011
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEaTun_zdjs Lotus Development Corporation Video (1997). Retrieved August 7, 2011
- ^ ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/software/lotus/pub/lotusweb/education/school/napa3.pdf Lotus Development Corporation NAPA VALLEY CREATES A HIGH-TECH HIGH SCHOOL WITH LOTUS NOTES (2000) Retrieved August 7, 2011
- ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19917375.html T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) October 1, 1997 | Morrison, Mark S.; Fujimoto, E. Ted Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ http://www.newtechnetwork.org/echo New Tech Network web site. Retrieved August 7, 2011
- ^ http://www.newtechnetwork.org/our-story New Tech Network web site Retrieved August 8, 2011
See also
Leonardo da Vinci High School
New Tech Network
Knowledge Works Foundation
Landmark Consulting Group, Inc.
Coordinates: 38°18′17″N 122°17′18″W / 38.3047°N 122.2882°W
Categories:- High schools in Napa County, California
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