1. www.fundourfuturewashington.org
Partnering to Shape 21st Century Learners
The Pocatello Charrette
Idaho Regional Conferences, 2010
Lisa LayeraBrunkan
Susan McBurney

2. [shuh-ret]-noun
a gathering of people for an intense period of brainstorming and design. Faced with a problem or a challenge, the participants pool their talents to produce plans to achieve a goal.
The word "charrette" means cart or chariot in French, and was used to describe the cart that was wheeled through Paris to pick up the senior projects of students at the `Ecole des Beau Arts. It came to mean hectic work required to meet a deadline.

Solution-oriented

3. Collaborative 4. Involves a cross-section of community stakeholders 5. Evokes a sense of urgency