Bold Moves for Schools

 

DRAFTING and REFERENCE TOOLS 

1) Program Structure Continuum

2)  Description of Current Structures 

3) Draft of Potential Prototypes 

4) Draft of Action Plans for Prototypes 

5)  Google Doc Exercise:  Time As Currency 

6) Robert Lynn Canady– Professor, University of Virginia- Scheduling Expert – View Sample Schedules

7) Fielding Nair International Architecture

8) Learning Space Spectrum- H. H. Jacobs

9) Modern School Furniture: Norva Nivil

10) Four Structures Implications for Instructional Planning – example

11) Four Structures Implications for Instructional Planning– blank

14) Rosan Bosch Architecture Group 

15) Winning School Designs- Thought

16) Award Winning Singapore American School:  Why Flexible Learning Enviroments? 

17) SLIDE DECK for today 

18) Focus Areas for our Teams- Google Doc

19) Institutional Grouping Form

 

 

READINGS: 

 

1)Fixing America’s Broken School Calendar -by Haley Gatter, Emily Deruy, and Alia Wong, The Atlantic Monthly-August, 2016

2) Ending Old-School Nostalgia for Learning Spaces – by H. H. Jacobs in School Administrator, October, 2017

3) Inside a Multi-Age Classroom  by Stuart Miller – The Atlantic Montly  May 9, 2017

4) What Makes Effective Interdisciplinary Teams 

5) High School Interdisciplinary Teams for the 21st Century

6) From High School to Learning Communities 

7) Flexibility Mak

es Multi-Age Classrooms Work 

8) Setting the Record Straight on Ability Grouping – Ed Week Teacher

9) Teacher Mentors for Students– Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

10) How Time of Day Affects Student Productivity: Evidence from School Schedules- MIT Press: Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2016

 

VIDEO CLIPS

Architectural “FLY-THROUGH” of Calgary Based Strathcona Tweesmuir

 

Ted Talk:  Prakash Nair- Design for Living in the Creative Age

 

 

 

Herman Miller Student Video Contest – 1st Place Winner -“What’s Next in Learning Spaces?”5)

 

 

 

From Cells and Bells to a Learning Community- Fielding Nair

 

Multi-age – Differentiated Instruction and Grouping -Wisconsin Department of Public Schools