Dear Reviewers:
I am the Executive Director of the City
Heights Educational
Collaborative. The Collaborative
provides, under contract with the School Board of the San
Diego Unified School
District, responsibility for the programmatic
operation and management of three City
Heights' schools. The schools are among the most culturally and
linguistically diverse schools in the nation.
They serve 5,300 students in total and have a Free and Reduced-lunch
rate of 99%. As the Collaborative
Director, I serve as the supervisor of three school principals.
I want this letter to communicate my interest in the
Collaborative being a site partner in the EPIC proposal. We have a Community
Technology Center
and an Academy of Informational
Technology connected with our Collaborative. Our teachers and students would
be excited to participate in the proto-type workshops for 30 visualizations of
math and science concepts. I want to
assure the reviewers that we have the capacity and interest to partner in this
effort and to extend the software tools that will be designed to a large
community and K-12 audience.
I urge you to consider this proposal carefully. We hope we have the opportunity to establish
this partnership and program. Good luck
in your deliberations.
Sincerely,
Ian Pumpian
Executive Director
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