You are invited to be part of creating the educational vision for the Watertown Middle School construction project!

Interpreters will be available!  

During the months of March and April 2025, the Watertown Middle School (WMS) Educational Visioning Group (EVG) – a group of (40-60) Watertown Public Schools and WMS school administrators, teachers, students, parents, and community partners will participate in three Educational Visioning Workshops run by Ai3 Architects and New Vista Design. Each workshop will be a collaborative session designed to inform the design of the renovated and/or new WMS facility.Participants will be led through a step-by-step visioning process aimed at capturing their best thinking about WMS’s current and future
educational goals and priorities and connecting them to best practices and possibilities in innovative facility design.

Workshops One and Two will take place virtually on Zoom, and Workshop Three will take place in person at WMS. Workshops are designed to be highly participatory, engaging, and informative. Because they build upon one and other, it is necessary to be able to participate in all three. The educational and architectural goals set during these workshops will have a direct and tangible impact on the design approach and features of the renovated and/or new school facility, so please come and add your voice and ideas to the conversation. Meetings will start and end on time. EVG Workshop dates and agendas can be found below.

Educational Visioning Group (EVG) Workshop Dates and Agendas

Workshop One will take place virtually on March 18, 2025, from 4:30-7:00-PM and will explore the following topics:

• Priority Goals for WMS educational programming and the renovated and/or new facility
• Future-Ready Teaching and Learning Practices that WMS envisions for the present moment and future
• Portrait of a WMS Graduate that distills the group’s best thinking about WMS’s current and future learning goals

Workshop Two will take place virtually on March 27, 2025, from 6:00-8:30- PM and will explore the following topics:

• Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities, and Goals (SCOG Analysis) associated with WMS’s current and future
• academic and extracurricular programming
• Architectural Design Patterns that innovative middle schools throughout the U.S. have put into practice
• Design Pattern Priorities for the renovated and or/new WMS facility

Workshop Three will take place in-person on April 10, 2025, from 3:00-6:00 PM and will explore the following topics:

• Guiding Principles for the design of the renovated and/or new facility
• Blue Sky Ideas that participants would like to see in new school program and facility
• Bubble Diagramming of conceptual design ideas for the renovated and/or new facility

If you are interested in volunteering to be part of the team to create the vision for the WMS construction project, please fill out the linked Google Form or contact Dede Galdston, Superintendent of Schools at deanne.galdston@watertown.k12.ma.us

GOOGLE FORM LINK:  https://forms.gle/EhDk6vXR4NCvRpYw9