Upgraded Classrooms & Community Spaces: Improved technology and flexible learning spaces to foster collaboration and creativity.
Enhanced Safety Features: Modern security systems and updated building infrastructure to ensure a safe learning environment.
Green Spaces: New outdoor areas for play and learning, promoting healthy lifestyles and environmental stewardship.
Accessibility Improvements: Ensuring our school is welcoming and accessible for all students and families.
The Site Improvement Team, or SIT, is composed of faculty, caregivers, and community members, and acts as a key advisory group to DCPS and DGS when planning, building, and delivering our modernized facility. The SIT is critical to the discrete decision making that will match Brent's future facility to our vision, goals, programs, and projected enrollment. SIT members were selected through an open application process in January 2024.
The SIT meets regularly with representatives from DCPS and DGS. Materials from SIT meetings, including recordings and slides, are available on Brent's DCPS modernization page. The SIT also hosts morning coffees and presents at quarterly community meetings in order to provide updates on the design-build process and to solicit feedback from the Brent community. Questions and concerns can also be emailed to [email protected].
Since the beginning of 2024, the SIT's advocacy committee has engaged with DC councilmembers, ANC commissioners, DCHA, DCPS, the Deputy Mayor of Education, neighboring elementary schools, members of the Brent community, and others regarding the swing space for our upcoming modernization project. For a detailed timeline of those efforts, please visit here.