I don't want to see those programs miss out because things are changing and we have to make adjustments around the district and so for me it was really important to see what we need to do to continue those and to keep adding things that will allow us to expand what the District offers.

One common theme among all of the principles was just the pride that they showed in their buildings and the way they've utilized the space that they have.

Paul told us about was the buildings used to just be brick walls and students would not care for the buildings as much and there was garbage on the floor and people drew on the walls and he came up with a program to put actual like travertine tiles on the walls and that has been done throughout the district and just that little thing seeing comparison pictures from what that was to what it did to change what the hallways look like they just it opened them up it made them look bigger and he said students started to take care of the buildings.

The biggest one we found is the small flexible space both for students and staff so areas that they're looking for either four breakout groups with the students or just small areas for staff to work together during their prep time.

One of the biggest constraints that we're dealing with in almost all of the buildings is real estate and so one of the big discussions we've had is moving forward looking at investing in either additional real estate or trying to find ways to change how things are laid out to give us a better organization of what exists.

I feel like we are thinking about the finances but really this group has been going in with an open mind trying to hear from the principals and from the staff about what is going to be the most important thing to maximize the space for our current students now and into the future so although finances plays a piece of it this really has been if money were No Object what would we what would we want.

My goal as a superintendent that is that you can't have a committee of 2,000 so 30 people who represent the breath of our Community really looking at what are the needs of our students and making recommendations back to us gives me confidence that we have something that our community should be proud of.