At the August CFF Board retreat a suggestion was made to provide periodic updates to the full Board on some key CFF activities in an attempt to keep the Board better informed and improve communications between Board meetings.

• Kerry Zurier, our Organizational Success Consultant, reviewed the results of the Board prioritization of the action steps for the Governance and Development Plan. The plan has been organized in phases over a 24 months timeline and will be presented for approval at the October 16, 2008 meeting. See attached for details. The retreat also focused on the qualities of highly success boards and related these qualities to the CFF Governance and Development Plan.

• AVID and CFF partnered in submitting a $336,000 request for scholarships (also $64,000 for program and services support) to the College Access Foundation of California. Dave Kapelanski, Joyce Suber and myself collaborated in developing the application request. Please let me know if you would like to receive a copy of the application request and we hope to hear the outcome within the next several weeks.

• CFF Chair, Tom Dillon, facilitated a dialogue with several superintendents including: Janice Cook (Cajon Valley) , Ernie Anastos (Lemon Grove) and Liz Johnson (Santee) regarding a collaborative effort to support teacher driven professional development strategies related to project-based learning methods.

• Rick Beach and I are completing the planning phase of our work with the Midway Museum to design their next generation of classrooms. We will have a final report at the end of September and will also create a proposal for CFF to support the re-modeling phase and equipment installation.

I hope the brief summary and status of these key activities is informative and useful.

Regards,
Bruce

Bruce Braciszewski, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Classroom of the Future Foundation
6401 Linda Vista Road, Room 205
San Diego, CA 92111
858.292.3686