New Technology High School | |
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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 Google map, 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, 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]
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Landmark Consulting Group, Inc.