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SUN PRAIRIE — The concrete band around the lower portion of the Prairie Phoenix Academy building and a concrete planter out front combined to make an ideal canvas for murals and mosaics created by the students.

Some of the art was whimsical — the mosaic prairie flowers, for example. Other murals feature sayings and illustrations that reflect more serious themes of the six alternative education programs housed in the Sun Prairie Area School District building. Elementary, middle and high school students attend the programs — collectively called Prairie Phoenix Academy — and took part in the project.

The art was created with the help of artist-in-residence Sharon Kilfoy, director of the Williamson Street Art Center in Madison, and her daughter and assistant, Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores. The project started last school year and was dedicated Nov. 7.

During a tour of the artwork, 17-year-old Morgan Hietpas pointed out some art with a puzzle piece theme that she conceived.

“We are all different pieces of the puzzle, we all just have to come together to complete it,” said Morgan, who is a junior at the alternative high school called School of Alternative Resources, or SOAR.

Another student, Elijah Kellum, 18, a senior at SOAR, pointed out the bridge on one large mural at the back of the school. He said it illustrates a link between where students are now to what they can achieve.

In addition to inspirational phrases and illustrations, some of the murals depict school philosophies and activities around the themes of renewal, service and adventure such as a canoe trip and landscaping work at a retirement home.

Before the students started the murals and mosaics, they did most of the power washing to prepare the surfaces.

Students from Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School next door also participated in the project, which gave the high school students a chance to use their leadership skills by being supervisors, Kilfoy said. Students in an art class at UW-Madison also took part, and community days were organized for family members and others to help out.

The project was funded through the American Girl Fund for Children and Dane Arts Power2Give program. Businesses also donated paint and tiles and mirrors for the mosaics.

“It was an opportunity for us to say, ‘You can be successful,’” said Wendi Tavs, principal of the Prairie Phoenix Academy.

To build community buy-in, Blake Freeman organized a parent work day at the end of summer to help spruce up the campus of Soddy-Daisy Middle School.

Justin Robertson started a quarterly principal’s coffee for parents to meet with him shortly after he began as principal at Red Bank High.

And adding an art teacher was one of Haley Brown’s first changes when she took the helm at Red Bank Elementary this fall.

Though not extraordinary in and of themselves, each of those moves was inspired, at least in part, by lessons learned at Normal Park Museum Magnet School.

For years critics have asked why the successes of Normal Park and other high-performing schools weren’t being replicated across the county. If it worked there, why couldn’t it work somewhere else?

And if Normal Park’s Principal Jill Levine had been able to build the program from scratch, why couldn’t she go to a school in need and do it again?

But in a way, the leadership and ideas there are spreading throughout the district. Hamilton County Schools administrators say teachers and principals who have worked at Normal Park are taking pieces of what makes it successful into other schools.

And Normal Park, and other successful schools, are serving as a training ground for future school leaders.

“It’s definitely true that good leadership will develop other good leaders,” said Superintendent Rick Smith.

He said other schools and principals are serving in similar roles as Normal Park’s Levine to mentor up-and-coming principals and replicate successes across the district.

Normal Park is known for its high level of parental involvement, community and business support and for being one of the county’s highest-performing schools. The school’s North Chattanooga attendance zone is highly sought after, pushing up the price of housing there.

For years, school officials from across the country visited Normal Park to learn about its practices. Some have even crafted whole schools modeled on Normal Park.

“The question is how do we share that locally,” Levine said. “People ask us all the time, ‘Why can’t every school be like this?'”

While teachers often visit from other Hamilton County schools, little has been done to fully reproduce the model here. But Levine said she views part of her role as preparing future principals. So she pushes her leadership values, instructional tools and curriculum pointers when working with her teachers and assistant principals.

“I feel like the good practices we have here are spreading to other places,” she said.

Freeman, who served as a Normal Park assistant principal last year, said he learned the importance of community and parent support. Community members came together and invested millions to revamp both the upper and lower campuses there. So he took a piece of that to Soddy-Daisy, where volunteers planted new landscaping, cleaned out the trophy cases and repainted.

“I saw the importance of that because I had seen the success of having parents that are buying into your school,” Freeman said. “They’re participating.”

To better communicate with parents he started a weekly “Monday Memo” and planned a principal’s coffee.

And instead of viewing his job as just a building manager or troubleshooter, Freeman said he’s learned that a principal’s role is to lead instruction across the building.

Clara Sale-Davis, director of the Benwood Initiative for the Public Education Foundation, said it makes sense to train principals under those who have proven effective. The Benwood Initiative works in 16 inner-city elementary schools, including Red Bank Elementary, where Haley Brown has just taken over after a decade at Normal Park.

“Jill Levine is a highly effective, high-performing principal,” Sale-Davis said. “I would think that Haley Brown has learned a lot of best practices from Jill as far as leadership.”

Sale-Davis did point out that moving from Normal Park to a more urban school like Red Bank could have some additional challenges because of a more diverse and poorer student population.

But Normal Park veterans say the tools they learned there work well in all educational environments. The school draws most of its diversity from a countywide magnet lottery, which together with the physical neighborhood zone, constitutes Normal Park’s student body.

“I think the kind of education that kids who came through Normal Park are getting is a great education for any kind of kid, no matter what their background is,” Brown said.

After seeing the transformational effect the arts had on Normal Park students, Brown said she couldn’t imagine not offering the same chances to Red Bank students. She also started offering guided reading training for teachers, modeled after a similar program at Normal Park.

While pieces of Normal Park are trickling out, principals say they aren’t trying to create schools identical to Normal Park, but are picking the strategies and ideas that best work at their new schools.

“It’s nice to see that there are great things going on in every school,” Brown said. “And there are elements of what’s going on in Normal Park taking place in lots of other places.”

Contact staff writer Kevin Hardy at khardy@timesfree press.com or 423-757-6249.

Cynthia D’Agosta

Cynthia D’Agosta got comfortable in a garden as a child.

Her Italian grandparents had a garden. Together the family would make sausages, ravioli and wine – D’Agosta commented on the smells as she described it. An adventurous youth, D’Agosta enjoyed being outside and exploring but also had an affinity for art. Through her career, art remained as more of a hobby while D’Agosta focused more on creating meaningful public spaces. In December, D’Agosta will officially become the executive director at Filoli, the historic house and acres of gardens located in Woodside. The 58-year-old is so eager to take on the position that she’s already spending time at the beautiful location getting to know employees and volunteers. This week she’ll have the chance to meet some of the property’s many supporters at its largest fundraiser, Holiday Traditions.

“I’m excited for all of it,” D’Agosta said, adding she’ll spend the start of her job listening to the ideas of those who really know Filoli. “I’m looking forward to seeing what people are doing and getting back into a landscape like this.”

D’Agosta was born in Vallejo but moved to San Jose at 8. Her exploration of art has included a variety of mediums from carving marble to bronze castings and watercolor. She studied science and fine arts while at University of California in Santa Cruz. As a banana slug, D’Agosta began working with architects in town. It was through that work that she was introduced to the world of landscaping.

It was through her sister that D’Agosta met Gary Blickenstaff, her husband of 38 years. They both worked at different locations for the same department store and D’Agosta’s sister was convinced they would hit it off. She was right. The pair has two children and three grandchildren today.

The couple traveled east early in their careers to continue their education. D’Agosta studied landscape architecture at Harvard while Blickenstaff attended Tufts University. During the summers, D’Agosta helped with a project at Acadia National Park in Maine. The park hadn’t been built for the large recreational vehicles that were now frequenting the park. The goal was to update the park’s general plan to solve issues but also preserve historic aspects. While at Harvard, D’Agosta took part in a cooperative project at Campabello Island. Part of the island attracted wealthy, seasonal visitors while another end included a small fishing community. The challenge was to find a way for both to survive on the space.

Through school D’Agosta realized her desire to work in a way that allows her to work with communities.

D’Agosta first took a job with a Southern California company working on landscape. But, after two years, she decided to work with Los Angeles County as a park planner. The job kept her busy with managing trails and significant ecological. D’Agosta was also part of a the team that, over five years, created a master plan for the Los Angeles River – a task that required many cities and government agencies to work together. Her work led to a position with the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy which was focusing on the Los Angeles River. Today, D’Agosta can see much of her plans becoming reality along the river.

A position with the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority brought D’Agosta back to northern California. She left after eight years to be executive director at the Committee for Green Foothills.

Despite not officially starting in her new role, D’Agosta is already getting started. She’s starting to learn the lay of the land, literally, and those who have helped Filoli run so smoothly thus far. Once she’s settled, D’Agosta is eager to take part in the art courses offered on site.

 

Heather Murtagh can be reached by email: heather@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 105.

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Setia Eco Cascadia has waterfall sanctuaries, parks with cascading waters, terraces and gardens to provide a natural and refreshing environment.

JOHOR BARU: SP Setia Bhd‘s 110.07ha project in the Tebrau growth corridor will have all the landscaping and characteristics of the company’s other projects in the Klang Valley, Penang and Iskandar Malaysia, according to executive vice-president (property division) Datuk Chang Khim Wah.

Known as Setia Eco Cascadia, Chang says the “eco” concept with different landscaping features had proven to be popular among local buyers and Singaporeans looking for residential properties in Iskandar Malaysia. The entire project, with a gross development value of RM2.2bil, was expected to keep the company busy for eight years.

The Johor project would feature cascading water features and terraces to provide a natural and refreshing environment to fit in it with “eco” theme, Chang said.

“Our objective is to have the quality of Setia Eco Cascadia matching or even exceeding that of Setia Eco Gardens,” he added. The main objective was to provide a “live-learn-work-play” lifestyle.

The developer has several townships with the Setia Eco branding including the Setia Eco Gardens in Pulai, Johor and Setia Eco Park in Shah Alam, Selangor.

Chang said the Setia Eco Cascadia houses were designed with environmental features such as high ceilings, bigger windows for better ventilation and lighting.

He added that the idea was to have as much natural light as possible.

More than 10% of the development land would be reserved for landscaping features, he said. One of the salient features of the Setia Eco Cascadia was “green connectors” which linked the houses to the clubhouse in order to encourage more outdoor activities and community building.

A green connector is a landscaped zone created in the overall layout that functions as a linear garden as well as a walkway and jogging track.

Chang said the original terrain of the area would be maintained and the indigenous trees found in the area would replanted in the development.

“We are using plants and trees that will able to attract butterflies and birds to let residents have the feeling of living among nature,” added Chang.

He said the company was taking the cue from its various award-winning developments as increasingly, more buyers in Iskandar Malaysia were looking for quality homes and were willing to fork out extra money for comfort and investment.

The project offers two and three-storey link houses, cluster houses, semi-detached, zero-lot bungalows, bungalows, shop offices and serviced apartments. Prices range from RM580,000 with built-up floor areas starting from 2,100 sq ft.

LED lights offer benefits in terms of safety, sustainability and value whether used indoors or outdoors. This year might be the one to start replacing old burned out strands with LEDs. Here’s why:

• Safety: LED lights do not get hot like conventional lights to create fire hazard or scorch plants.

• Fewer outlets required: You can literally string 120 strands of LEDS end to end and plug the whole line into one extension cord connected to one power outlet.

• Less power: LEDs use about 75 percent less power than conventional holiday lights.

• Longer life: LEDs last four to five times longer than conventional lights.

• Sustainable facts: You will pay a little more up front, but the cost will be recovered in lower energy costs and fewer replacements. You’ll also be using less total material over a longer time frame.

That is why natural holiday decor is the sustainable option.

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Two blocks north of Vine Street, a fissure opens in the earth to reveal a subterranean realm that might be the remains of a lost civilization. Cathedral-like tunnels pierced by shafts of sunlight give way to a dense jungle. Occasional clearings occur, offering fish-eye views of towers looming above, a welcome reminder that Center City isn’t as far away as it seems.

Reading Railroad trains once roared through this urban canyon, ferrying coal to Philadelphia’s industrial belt. But since the last train made the trip in 1992 – delivering giant rolls of paper into the bowels of the former Inquirer/Daily News building – nature has been busy with its own landscaping. With modest structural improvements, advocates say, the industrial relic could be repurposed as an extension of the Reading Viaduct park, scheduled to complete construction drawings next year.

The idea of creating a low-line companion to Philadelphia’s planned high line has so gripped imaginations that a team of top designers has volunteered to sketch ideas for a belowground trail on the west side of Broad Street. Guided tours are now practically weekly events conducted by Paul van Meter, who first proposed a low-line park.

There’s one hitch: A new city plan just earmarked the low-line trench for a high-speed bus route that would connect a string of cultural venues to the heart of downtown.

This idea, too, has gripped local imaginations. Transit advocates envision sleek electric buses slicing below street level, transporting riders from the Convention Center to the Mann Center in minutes. Because SEPTA owns the right-of-way, the line – a form of Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT – could be constructed relatively quickly and cheaply. Besides platforms, only stairs and elevators would have to be built to take riders to the surface.

So what’s the best use for the low line: park or ride?

It’s not every day that Philadelphians get to choose between two equally seductive visions for public improvements. One option plays to our growing fascination with our industrial past, while the other taps into our renewed interest in expanding the city’s transit network.

Combining the low line, west of Broad, with the mile-long high line, east of Broad, would create a 3.7-mile belt of green space on the northern rim of Center City. Branded “Viaduct Greene,” it would almost certainly ignite development in the triangle between Temple University, Northern Liberties, and Spring Garden.

An east-west bus line in the low-line trench, meanwhile, could give the city its long-sought “cultural connector,” an expanded version of the discontinued 76 bus. Laura Spina, a city planner, imagines the line could someday continue to the Delaware, linking the waterfront to Fairmount Park.

Before you get too excited, keep in mind that nothing happens quickly in Philadelphia.

Right now, the park advocates have the upper hand because they could piggyback the low line onto the high-line project. After nine years of discussion, the city expects to complete construction drawings next year and start work on the first phase of that elevated park: the short, curving spur that runs from Broad and Noble Streets to the start of the main viaduct at 11th Street. Just a fifth of a mile, the ramped spur will cost $8 million, says the Center City District’s Paul Levy, who is heading the effort.

The spur is merely a warm-up act for the main show: extending the park onto the main branch of the old Reading line. As the stone-and-earth trestle cleaves through the Loft District, it widens to reveal 360-degree views and an Oz-like panorama of the skyline. But the city has run into problems trying to wrest control of the main branch from its owner, the Reading Co.

In the meantime, the park on the elevated spur can’t happen soon enough for the emerging Loft District, a neighborhood of old factories that has almost no public space. The original proponents, Sarah McEneaney and John Struble, were able to convince city officials that an elevated park could be made safe only after the success of New York’s High Line. By renovating the spur first, they hope to build momentum for finishing the main branch of the viaduct.

Proponents of the low line see their project as a logical Phase 3, but the clock is ticking. PennDot is getting ready to reconstruct the part of Broad Street over the Reading trench, and it wants to fill the trench with dirt. That would eliminate an important entrance to a future low-line park, and interfere with the connection to the high line.

At the behest of the American Institute of Architects’ Community Design Collaborative, a team of top local designers – Olin, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, and CVM engineers – agreed to whip up a design to help make the case for the low-line park.

One of their early concepts calls for transforming the parking lot in front of the School District building into a plaza with a ramped entrance down to the low-line park. The trail could extend as far as 30th and Poplar, where the trench rises to street level.

Romantic as the idea sounds, the low line lacks some qualities that make the high line such a compelling project. The area west of Broad Street is already rich with green space. There are concerns about safety, and whether being underground would remain a fun experience once the thrill of venturing into an undiscovered ruin was gone. Proposals for food vendors and a wine bar could help maintain the allure.

Funding for maintenance is another challenge. Philadelphia can barely take care of Rittenhouse Square’s seven acres, located in the most affluent part of the city. Coming up with a strategy to maintain the equally large high line in the Loft District won’t be easy, and finding money for the low line would add to the burden.

Yet raising money for a bus line is even more daunting. SEPTA’s strategic planner, Byron S. Comati, says the cultural connector is fourth or fifth on the agency’s wish list. Right now, there isn’t even funding for No. 1, an extension of Route 100 to Norristown.

In a 2006 assessment, SEPTA estimated it could build the connector for $114 million – spare change as transit projects go. Still, many wonder whether the agency could provide an even cheaper version simply by rerouting one of its existing bus routes.

In the end, it hardly seems worthwhile to wait for SEPTA. If it’s going to take 20 years to realize its connector, why not use the low line as a park in the meantime? The park’s stairs and elevators could always be repurposed later for the bus line.

Maybe Philadelphia doesn’t have to choose, says Comati. The low line once contained four parallel railroad tracks. That’s a lot of width. If and when BRT becomes a real possibility, there’s no reason the bus and the skinny trail couldn’t share the road.

 

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For information on tours, go to viaductgreene.org/.

Contact Inga Saffron at 215-854-2213, isaffron@phillynews.com and on Twitter @ingasaffron.

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We’re back after a one week hiatus of Flipping Out due to election day, and Jeff Lewis, Jenni Pulos, Zoila Chavez, Gage Edward, and crew are just as out there as ever.  That’s why we love them, right?  Not to mention, Grandma Patty was front and center in this episode, so that alone made it amazing. 

Last night’s episode started with Jeff using his infamous mask to scare the bejeezus out of Andrew and Zoila.  If Andrew had jumped any higher, he would have hit his head on the chandelier.  Zoila comforts him, while Jenni scolds Jeff.  Gage thinks that the Andy/Jeff dynamic isn’t appropriate for the work place.  At Gramercy, Gage, Jenni, Jeff, and Andrew are looking into planting trees.  Now that he’s listed the house, one of the couples from a showing said that there wasn’t enough privacy.  Gage is still pouting over Gramercy, and he’s wearing on my nerves as the season progresses.  I adored him at the beginning.

Jeff decides to prank call his grandmother, pretending he’s a roofer, but Patty totally hangs up on him. He and Jenni are on their way to see how her renovation is proceeding.  Jeff feels responsible for taking care of Patty, and he wants to discuss with her the fact that one day she’s going to need a caretaker.  He really wants her to move to Spring Oak (do it, do it!), but she’s not entertaining that idea.  Patty is such a spitfire, you can’t help but love her. 

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At Spring Oak, Andrew is in charge of making sure the backyard is properly landscaped.  The gardener won’t stay, but promises to come back later in the week.  Gage jumps on Andrew immediately for being such a pushover.  Gage wonders why couldn’t Andrew find him a ladder…and he takes matters into his own hands to get the trees trimmed.  Gage complains to Vanina, but she thinks that he needs to be more patient.  Jeff wants to put Andrew in control of Gramercy, but Gage just can’t stop holding a grudge.  Andrew enters, but not before he’s overheard Gage talking about him.  He’s getting paranoid that Gage is trying to force him out of a job.  Don’t be paranoid, Andrew–you’re right on the money!

Andrew is sharing his landscaping ideas for Gramercy with Jeff.  They totally play out “balls” when talking about topiary plants.  There are only so many puns one can make.  Gage doubts Andrew’s ability to landscape, but he is impressed at how Andrew can entertain Jeff…a trait Gage touts Andrew with for keeping his job.  At Gramercy, Gage and Jeff are moving in some pieces.  Gage hears running water, and he realizes that Andrew almost over flowed the pool.  Andrew is quick to admit his mistake, but Gage won’t let him forget it.  Jeff has confidence in Andrew’s abilities, but he hopes that having Andrew answer to Gage will perhaps help their relationship.

At Patty’s, Jeff drops the bomb on his grandmother that he’s going to be getting rid of her beloved cabinets.  Jeff assures her that they have already talked over the kitchen remodel.  He doesn’t want her to think she’s forgetting things, but at the same time, Jeff worries that Patty’s memory is fading.  Jeff is also frustrated because his brother lives twenty minutes from Patty and rarely helps.  Meanwhile, Jeff is sticking up post-it notes to remind Patty about her prescriptions. 

Gage doesn’t trust Andrew to work on his Gramercy baby.  Andrew is making more and more mistakes.  When Jeff chastises him about not placing a landscape order, Andrew is concerned that Gage will overhear (duh) and continue to be on his case.  Jenni and Jeff enlist sister-in-law Carrie to help convince Patty that she needs new cabinetry in her kitchen.  On the ride down, stories about Jeff’s mother are shared.  Carrie seems to be siding with Patty, so Jeff’s plan has backfired.  Carrie and Jeff argue about the positioning of the island and the stove in the kitchen, and now Jeff worries that Patty will be even more resistant of the remodel.

Andrew is working overtime landscaping Gramercy in hopes of impressing Gage.  Gage is not going to give Andrew any kind of compliments, and he micro manages Andrew as he tries to do his job.  Jeff is super exhausted and thinks he’s spending too much time on Gramercy when he could be working on other projects.  He decides to have a one-on-one with Dr. Donna.  Jeff reveals that taking care of Patty is a huge responsibility, and he gets no help from his brothers.  He wishes they felt more obligated to her.  Dr. Donna tries to get Jeff to realize that he’s upset with his brothers.  Jeff really does try to do what’s right, you can’t deny that.

In a last ditch attempt to get Gage to like him, Andrew approaches Gage about resolving their issues so that they can have a smoother business relationship.  Gage begrudgingly agrees to a “twenty minute” dinner.  In the mini-clip, Jeff convinces Zoila to put their trash in the neighbors’ trash cans.  As soon as she gets the bags in the outside trash bin, Jeff yells at her as if he’s the neighbor who owns the trash can.  She scoots away giggling and cursing Jeff’s practical joke.  At the most awkward dinner ever, Andrew is awaiting Gage with a broken box of cupcakes.  I just don’t know why Gage can’t throw him a bone.  I feel like Andrew is really trying (yes, I remember the lies), but Gage isn’t going to let anything go.  Gage wants Andrew to know that he’s protecting the company.  Andrew wants to prove himself to Gage, and he wishes they could be friends.  Gage explains that he’ll probably never like Andrew, but if he sees him working hard and doing a good job, he’ll at least respect him.  That’s a baby step at least.

Jeff, Jenni, and Gage are going to see Andrew’s progress with the landscaping.  Jeff is beyond impressed, and even Gage begrudgingly admits it looks good…of course, it occurred under his supervision.  Andrew is floored by the praise.  Jeff believes that Gage is waiting with baited breath for Andrew to make a mistake.  Gage can’t seem to get over himself.  At Patty’s home, Jeff, Jenni, Andrew, and Vanina are putting the finishing touches on the decor.  Patty loves the remodel, save the blue throw pillows.  She like fall colors.  Duh.  Patty reveals to Jeff that when she dies, she wants his brother to get her house.  Perhaps Jeff should have opted for green pillows. 

After the great mask debacle, Jeff decides he’s going to keep scaring Andrew.  Dr. Donna told Jeff that he needs to focus less on money and more on what makes him happy.  Well, scaring the pants off of Andrew is what entertains Jeff.  He places a giant dead cricket on Andrew’s laptop.  It’s priceless.  Gage finally admits that he should at least appreciate Andrew for being able to make Jeff laugh. 

Next week, Jeff screams at Jenni about her lack of self-control, so of course the pair ends up on Dr. Donna’s sofa.  She should be in the opening credits!

TELL US-WHAT DID YOU THINK OF LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE?  IS GAGE BEING TOO MUCH OF A BRAT OR DOES ANDREW STILL NEED TO BE EARNING HIS TRUST?

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