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10/30/2013

SCHOOL 2.0 — Designing Tomorrow’s Schools

This video shows how old and outdated school buildings can be brought back to life inexpensively to meet the needs of 21st Century learners.

This video shows how old and dysfunctional school buildings can be brought back to life inexpensively to meet the needs of 21st Century learners.

10/30/2013

The Classroom is Obsolete — It’s Time for Something New

By Prakash Nair
Education Week

10/30/2013

Short Version 21st Century Learning in Action — PK Yonge School — Florida

Fielding Nair International — Master Planner and Design Architect

P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida has changed the way to do school! http://pkyonge.ufl.edu http://www.michellefriedline.c...

10/30/2013

Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them

By Prakash Nair
Education Week

10/30/2013

21st Century Learning in Action — PK Yonge School — Florida

Fielding Nair International — Master Planner and Design Architect
This video demonstrates in a compelling way why effective teaching and learning needs effectively designed school buildings.

P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida has redesigned school and the kids LOVE it! http://pkyonge.ufl.edu http://www.michellef...

10/30/2013

THE LANGUAGE OF SCHOOL DESIGN

A completely revised 2nd Edition of The Language of School Design: Design Patterns for 21st Century Schools, by Prakash Nair, Randall Fielding and Dr. Jeffery Lackney, (100 more pages and dozens of new illustrations of innovative schools) has been released. With dozens of excellent reviews and thousands of copies sold, LOSD is a must-have resource for School Planners, Architects, Educators and Administrators.

The Language of School Design is a seminal work because it defines a new graphic vocabulary that synthesizes learning research with best practice in school planning and design. But it is more than a book about ideas. It is also a practical tool and a must-have resource for all school stakeholders involved in planning, designing and constructing new and renovated schools and evaluating the educational adequacy of existing school facilities. Buy a copy here.

The Language of School design is a seminal work because it defines a new graphic vocabulary that synthesizes learning research with best practice in school planning and design. But it is more than a book about ideas. It is also a practical tool and a must-have resource for all school stakeholders...

10/30/2013

Leaner, More Effective Schools

Twenty-first century school configuration reduces operational expenditures and promotes student learning.

By Randall Fielding, November 2012, School Business Affairs Magazine

Educational spaces, whose designs are based on research in effective learning, where multiple modalities and individualized learning are accommodated, aren’t as expensive as you might think. At the most basic level, using a portion of the funds allocated to maintenancefor modest renovations leads to leaner, safer, more effective school facilities. But to accomplish this objective, our preconceptions about what a school should look like must be challenged, and that can be difficult. School buildings, and particularly classrooms, have moved beyond being simple spaces; they are now iconic. The idea of changing their fundamental structure seems too radical to consider. But it shouldn’t be.

10/30/2013

A Comfortable Truth: Well-Planned Classrooms Make a Difference

Kids don't have to squirm to learn.

By Prakash Nair, Randall Fielding

Credit: Pete McArthur If we were to assemble a list of adjectives to describe school, comfortable would not make the cut. Many of the places where vital teaching occurs, if not designed expressly f

10/30/2013

Anne Frank Inspire Academy — The Learning Building

One of FNI’s new schools, Anne Frank Inspire Academy, is opening next fall in San Antonio. This highly innovative campus contains 21st Century learning spaces and a curriculum to match. See Randall Fielding, Prakash Nair and Isaac Williams narrate this exciting school’s layout and philosophy.

Open enrollment opens April 1st. Apply today! What happens when you get an award-winning school design and couple it with modern learning approaches? A schoo...

10/30/2013

Getting Beyond the School as Temple: What Do We Expect from Our Schools?

Our concept of a community school must evolve -- rapidly and intelligently.

By Prakash Nair

Credit: Veer The concept of the community school and the related idea of the school as literally the center of its community have in a short time become sacred cows in m

10/30/2013

Designing Schools for the 21st Century Learners

By Randall Fielding

These films look specifically at ways in which school leaders and educators are testing and proving project-based models for a new, student-centered model of learning. EmbedAn IntroductionThese films look specifically at ways in which school leaders and educators are ... (More)EmbedEssential L...

10/30/2013

RECOMMENDED READING:

The Schools Our Children Deserve

By Alfie Kohn

In this “lively, provocative and well-researched book” (Theodore Sizer), AlTe Kohn builds a powerful argument against the “back to basics” philosophy of teaching and simplistic demands to “raise the bar.” Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive resea...