A
"Multiply Intelligent" Community Education and Family Center by Judy
Bonne 
For this issue's first article New Horizons
Board member Gary Howlett told us about a community learning and training
center in Rockford, Illinois that is serving people of all ages with a variety
of innovative programs. Part of The Abilities Center, it includes
a school and Head Start daycare center, a Mom's Clinic and more. The Abilities
Center, complex was developed by Goodwill Industries which remodeled a donated
food store convenient to the community it serves. The Abilities Center is
also part of a national Goodwill Industries telecommunications networking
project funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications
and Information Instrastructure Assistance Program. We are grateful to Judy
Bonne, the staff member responsible for New Business Development for the
MULTITREX program at the center, for her article and the accompanying images
describing the Center.
For more on the design of learning environments, please see The Center for Architecture and Education: Design of Learning Environments .
Bellevue's
Road Map for Renovation The Center for Architecture and Education:
Design of Learning Environments has just posted an article on the Bellevue
Public School District's innovative program for scheduled modernization --
with site-based input. We are grateful to Rod Sutton, the editor of School
Planning & Management and author of the article for permission to reprint
it here.
Resources
and Recommendations from ERIC 
We
recommend taking a look at the ERIC
Review bulletin: "K-12 Computer Networking." (Vol 4, No. 1. Fall, 1995)
There are several ways to obtain this document, including from an Internet
gopher site. We think their resource lists and book recommendations are terrific.
This material was funded by taxpayers and is in the public domain which makes
it ideal for trainers and school technology specialists.
