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  • Begin Summer Recess

    Begin Summer Recess

    All day
    2026.08.05
    Michigan State University: Great Lakes Lighthouses

    Standardization topics will continue to flow but our daily interactive document review and markup sessions will not resume until August 20th.

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  • Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.06

    Are you Overbuilding?

    “Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month.

    We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.

     

    https://youtu.be/x613cyteWL4

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  • Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

    Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.10

    “He who does not speak foreign languages
    knows nothing about his own.“

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     

    “The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder

     

    Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web:

    English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6%

     

    One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding.  As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things.  So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things.

    We begin 2025 by breaking down this topic into four sections

    Language 100: Survey of vocabulary in the standards catalogs relevant to building and managing education settlement real assets; including legal terms.

    Language 200: Electrotechnology standard catalogs; including computer programming languages.

    Language 300: The English as the language of science and innovation; the birthplace of computing and programming, the internet’s native tongue, standardization & open source development; etc.

    Language 400: Reserved.  Received Pronunciation

    RE: National Debate and Speech Association

    https://youtube.com/shorts/JGyuv9MLxJg?si=Cq2P5TX9N8S7rMHh

     


    We observe National Poetry Month (April) in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities.

    In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry.

    Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide.

    In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia.  Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English

    https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

  • Health 400 | OB-GYN

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.10

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

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  • “Last Train Home” Berklee

    “Last Train Home” Berklee

    All day
    2026.08.15

    Pat Metheny joined the faculty of Berklee College of Music in 1974 at age 19, becoming its youngest teacher ever after a recommendation from vibraphonist Gary Burton.

    He taught guitar there for roughly 18 months in the mid-1970s while developing his career and later joining Burton’s band. Though never a formal student, the experience immersed him in Boston’s vibrant jazz scene.

    In 1996 Berklee awarded him an honorary doctorate, and he delivered the commencement address. He returned in the early 2000s as Herb Alpert Visiting Professor for multi-week residencies, conducting clinics and coaching students.

  • “Never Gonna Let You Go” PS22

    “Never Gonna Let You Go” PS22

    All day
    2026.08.15
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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  • The Assumption of Our Lady

    The Assumption of Our Lady

    All day
    2026.08.16

    Mary travels into the hill country to visit Elizabeth. At Mary’s
    greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaps within her, and Elizabeth blesses
    Mary and the child she carries.

    Mary answers with the Magnificat: she magnifies the Lord and rejoices
    in God, who has regarded the lowly, shown strength, humbled the proud
    and powerful, lifted up the lowly, filled the hungry with good things
    and remembered his promise of mercy.

    “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my
    Saviour.”
    — Luke 1:46–47, KJV

     

    Our Lady of Mercy Chapel - Salve Regina University

    “Hail, Holy Queen” Chapel | R.A.M. Stern Architects

    Young people curious about Christianity might learn more by skipping Christmas and Easter for a year and attending church instead on the quieter Sundays and lesser festivals of the Christian calendar.  The great holidays are magnificent, but they are exceptional occasions: crowded pews, elaborate music, flowers, candles and congregations enlarged by people who may attend only once or twice a year. They can present Christianity at its most ceremonial without necessarily revealing the ordinary rhythm that sustains it.

    Try an August Sunday instead.

    Attend on Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints, Ascension or a lesser observance such as the Assumption of Mary in mid-August. The congregation may be smaller. The music may be simpler. The sermon may assume that everyone knows where they are in the Christian year. Precisely for those reasons, a visitor encounters something closer to the continuing life of the church.

    Liturgy also becomes less boring once its recurring forms become recognizable. Language initially heard as repetition begins to disclose structure and meaning.

    The Christian calendar was designed to be inhabited, not sampled. Sometimes the best way to understand its great festivals is to begin with the days when hardly anyone is watching.

  • “Les Preludes” Interlochen Arts Camp

    “Les Preludes” Interlochen Arts Camp

    All day
    2026.08.16
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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  • Python

    Python

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.17

    https://standardsmichigan.com/python-standard-library/

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  • End Summer Recess

    End Summer Recess

    All day
    2026.08.20
    Michigan State University: Great Lakes Lighthouses

  • Water

    Water

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.20


    Aperiodic walk-through of best practice literature for water resources in education communities.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

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  • Observatories & Planetariums

    Observatories & Planetariums

    All day
    2026.08.21

    https://standardsmichigan.com/planetariums/

  • Summer Covers: Week 8

    Summer Covers: Week 8

    All day
    2026.08.21
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009


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  • “A Summer’s Tale”

    “A Summer’s Tale”

    All day
    2026.08.22

     

    Éric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale (1996) follows Gaspard, a recent mathematics graduate, through several weeks of summer holiday on the Brittany coast. He arrives expecting to meet one young woman, befriends another and is introduced to a third. What follows is less a conventional romance than a study of young adults discovering how uncertain they can be about one another and themselves.

    Rohmer gives them room to find out. They walk beaches, eat together, make music, talk, flirt and make plans that may or may not survive another day. There are no grand institutions directing their choices and little technology competing for their attention. Place, weather, conversation and unstructured time do most of the work.

    For educators and essential works staff whose professional lives are governed by calendars, classrooms and obligations, the film offers a gentle reminder: summer also provides time for friendship, courtship and possibilities that cannot be scheduled.

  • “I Ain’t Gonna Worry” Paxton High School 1958

    “I Ain’t Gonna Worry” Paxton High School 1958

    All day
    2026.08.22
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    Standards Florida


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  • William Wilberforce

    William Wilberforce

    All day
    2026.08.24

    The English-speaking peoples did not invent slavery. They inherited ancient human institutions in Africa, Asia and the Islamic world and, under powerful Christian influence, became among the peoples who transformed opposition to it into sustained political action, abolition and international suppression.

    For American Public School District Curriculum Leaders: Understanding the broader history of slavery provides essential context for teaching American history as the nation observes the 250th anniversary of its founding. Different civilizations developed different systems of slavery, different routes of commerce and eventually very different histories of abolition.

    Slavery was not invented by Europeans. Forms of slavery and forced servitude existed for thousands of years in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the South American continent including what is now Mexico.  Within Africa, captives of war, debtors and members of rival communities were among those enslaved. Long-established African political and commercial networks subsequently became entangled with European demand for labor in the Americas, producing the extraordinarily destructive Atlantic slave trade.

    This larger history does not diminish the particular brutality of American slavery or its enduring consequences. It places them within the history of a widespread human institution shaped by power, warfare, commerce and law. Teaching that larger history gives students a more complete account of human responsibility than narratives that permanently assign innocence or guilt according to ancestry.

    The English-speaking world became a leading center of organized abolition. British abolitionists transformed moral and religious opposition to slavery into sustained public action and parliamentary reform. Evangelical Christians, Quakers and others were particularly important. Parliament abolished the British slave trade in 1807 and enacted the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, with emancipation taking effect across most of the British Empire beginning in 1834. Britain subsequently committed diplomatic, financial and naval resources to suppressing the Atlantic slave trade. The Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron intercepted slave ships and liberated many thousands of captives.

    The American story followed a different and far bloodier course. The United States prohibited the importation of enslaved people beginning in 1808, yet slavery expanded domestically and became inseparable from the sectional crisis that produced the Civil War. Southern states seceded in defense of a social and economic order founded substantially upon slavery. Lincoln’s Republican administration ultimately made emancipation a Union war policy, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States in 1865. Reconstruction was followed by decades of segregation and disenfranchisement in the South before the twentieth-century civil-rights movement secured another profound change in American law and institutions.

    This history deserves to be taught neither as an indictment nor as an absolution of people living today. Young Americans can understand simultaneously that slavery was brutal, that racial injustice persisted long after emancipation and that societies possess a remarkable capacity for moral reform. The history of abolition is itself part of the history of slavery.

    For African-American students in particular, that larger field includes considerably more than victimhood. It includes endurance, family formation, religious faith, intellectual achievement, military service, entrepreneurship, abolitionism, political organization and the long exercise of agency under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Frederick Douglass belongs in this history alongside William Wilberforce.

    As Americans continue to disagree about how this history should be taught, public schools should expect parents to examine closely the historical narratives presented to their children. Where families conclude that schools present American history principally through inherited grievance or collective guilt, some will seek alternatives through home schooling, charter schools and other forms of education. That competition should encourage every educational institution to pursue historical completeness rather than political conformity.

    The better objective is neither grievance nor forgetfulness. It is historical proportion: acknowledging human cruelty without denying human achievement, recognizing inherited consequences without assigning inherited guilt and showing young people that institutions can be reformed by people possessing sufficient courage, conviction and persistence.

    William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England.

  • Essential Works Management

    Essential Works Management

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.24

    Our monthly walk through of revision cycles and public-commenting opportunities regarding codes, standards, recommended practices and other consensus documents developed by the ISO, ICC, ASTM, ASHRAE, NFPA, IFMA, BOMA, APPA and others that set the standard of care for education and university-affiliated facilities.

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  • United States Consumer Sentiment

    United States Consumer Sentiment

    All day
    2026.08.28

    Release Calendar 2026

    Release Calendar 2025

    Final Results for October 2025

    The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI) is released twice a month:

    1. Preliminary Report – Released mid-month (usually the second Friday of the month).
    2. Final Report – Released at the end of the month (usually the fourth Friday of the month).

    Both reports are published at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (ET).

    https://youtu.be/D0xSuqKoByQ?si=-pawPMfA1bnY3-FM

    https://youtu.be/GxbKuek88NQ?si=v249UC4EAG2qJXlh

    https://youtu.be/JkQauI15hlE?si=uAm42E0eGtSCtJPH

  • Summer Covers: Week 9

    Summer Covers: Week 9

    All day
    2026.08.28
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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  • Summer Watersport

    Summer Watersport

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.28

    https://standardsmichigan.com/watersport/

    https://twitter.com/OtayMark/status/1687584197752537091?s=20

    https://twitter.com/StandardsMich/status/1550752898740543489?s=20

    https://twitter.com/SportSapienza/status/1687454976015020033?s=20

    https://twitter.com/USASwimming/status/1687150046612250624?s=20

    https://twitter.com/Vol_SwimDive/status/1687087529214844928?s=20

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Standards Michigan | Time

The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically.  Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.

In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles.  In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.

Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.

Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.

The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.

Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society.  (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)

 

Quadrivium: Autumn

We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.

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