2024 ALEP Candidate Letter of Reference

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* 1. Please provide the name of ALEP candidate you are recommending.

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* 2. Please provide the following information.

Name

Organization

Title

City/Town

State/Province

Country

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 3. How long have you known the candidate?

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* 4. Please describe how you know the candidate.

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* 5. Please identify the core competencies which you wish to address in your recommendation of the candidate.

Educational Visioning: Exhibits an understanding of best and next practices
related to educational leadership, programming, teaching, learning,
planning and facility design – establishing credibility with educators,
community members and design professionals while being able to conceive
and lead a visioning process. Demonstrates the ability to articulate the
impact of learning environments on teaching and learning and uses that
ability to facilitate a dialogue to uncover the unique needs and long range
goals of an educational institution and its stakeholders – translating that
into an actionable written/graphic program of requirements for the
designer.

Community Engagement: Leads community-wide research processes
through group facilitation, strategic conversations, qualitative and
quantitative surveys, along with board and administrative workshops to
discover, articulate and communicate a community-based foundational
vision that will form the basis of a plan for the design of learning
environments. Demonstrates the skill to resolve stakeholder issues while
embedding a community's unique vision into the vision for its schools.

Educational Facility Pre-Design Planning: Manages a master planning
process that combines educational planning, facilities assessment and
utilization, demographic research, capital planning and educational
specifications with a community-based vision to establish a plan for
learning environments. This includes the ability to translate existing or
aspirational instructional models to specific programming and spatial
relationships.

Design of Educational Facilities: Acts as a resource to the design team in
providing ongoing guidance and support to ensure that the emerging and
ultimate design aligns with the established community vision, education
goals, future programming, written design standards, best/next practices
and education policy.

Educational Facility Implementation, Project Management/Project
Delivery: Has a working understanding of how the following areas impact
the facility program: regulations and policies; project delivery
methodologies; scheduling; preventative maintenance; life-cycle planning;
and systems commissioning.

Assessment of the School Facility: The ability to objectively evaluate a
learning environment post-occupancy and utilize that data to improve
future projects. Implements a plan for educational commissioning that
provides guidance on how to use and maximize the learning environment
to meet the foundational vision established in the planning phase.

Ethics/Professionalism: Provides leadership and stewardship for the
responsible investment of public and private funding into school facilities –
while being a known advocate for the importance of the learning
environment on a child’s future. They lead and have a record of leading
transparent processes that help communities find common ground in
developing solutions to complex and sensitive issues – advocating for long
term solutions that address the needs of all children and stakeholders
including under-served groups.

2024 ALEP Candidate Letter of Reference

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* 1. Please provide the name of ALEP candidate you are recommending.

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* 2. Please provide the following information.

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* 3. How long have you known the candidate?

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* 4. Please describe how you know the candidate.

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* 5. Please identify the core competencies which you wish to address in your recommendation of the candidate.

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* 6. Please provide specifics of how the candidate addressed one of the core competencies listed above.

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* 7. Please provide specifics of how the candidate addressed one of the core competencies listed above.

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* 8. Please identify the core competencies which you wish to address in your recommendation of the candidate.

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* 9. Please provide specifics of how the candidate addressed one of the core competencies listed above.

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* 10. Please provide any additional information about the candidate that you would like to include.